Dear Tom,
Was the 70-degree high that we recorded last Sunday (Nov. 11) one of the later 70-degree highs we've recorded as of late?
-- Lew Lake, Wheaton
Dear Lew,
Actually it wasn’t. Just a year ago the mercury also peaked at a balmy 70 degrees on Nov. 13. Prior to that, two 71-degree highs were recorded on Nov. 13 and 18 in 1999 and a 70-degree high was logged on Nov. 19 in 1991.
The city’s most remarkable run of late-season warmth occurred in November 1953, when a record string of five highs in the 70s occurred Nov. 15-19, culminating with an unseasonably warm high of 74.
The city has even recorded two 71-degree highs in December, one on Dec. 3, 1970 and the other on Dec. 2, 1982.
