This isn’t going to make you feel any better on Thursday morning while you’re trying to shovel up to 10 inches of snow off your sidewalk.
But if you got outside at lunchtime on Wednesday, you know this wasn’t any normal February day.
Heavy winter clothes were shed for a time early in the afternoon of Feb. 8, 2017, in Downtown Easton as the thermometer set a daily record. It won’t be nearly as pleasant on Feb. 9, meteorologists say. (Tony Rhodin | For lehighvalleylive.com)
In fact, it’s the warmest Feb. 8 since records began to be kept in 1922 in the Lehigh Valley.
It hit 61 degrees, breaking the previous record of 59 degrees set in 1965.
Heavy winter clothes were shed for a time early in the afternoon of Feb. 8, 2017, in Downtown Easton as the thermometer set a daily record. It won’t be nearly as pleasant on Feb. 9, meteorologists say. (Tony Rhodin | For lehighvalleylive.com)
But, a meteorologist said from the National Weather Service office in Mount Holly, New Jersey, said, that won’t change Thursday’s forecast.
A winter storm warning goes into place at midnight for 6 to 10 inches of snow.
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