Wednesday, November 10, 1999
Warm temperatures stay with us
BY BETTY KIM
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The Tristate enjoyed another unusually warm autumn day Tuesday, as the temperature peaked above 70 degrees for the second day this month.
The high of 73 was 3 degrees below the record high for the day, set in 1975. The record for the month is 83, set in 1950. The temperature is expected to reach 72 today.
For the rest of the week, it will be cloudy and a bit cooler, with high temperatures in the low 60s.
The average temperature for the month thus far is 52 degrees, well above normal, said Jim Torrence, forecaster for the National Weather Service in Wilmington, Ohio.
But expect cooler temperatures in the next few weeks to dip to the monthly average of 48 degrees, he said.
Perhaps most thankful for the warm weather are those in the garden and landscape businesses.
The mild autumn has enabled them to extend sales of certain items, allowing them to make up for the meager sales this dry summer.
At Gear's Florist & Garden Center stores, tree and shrub sales have doubled and hardy mums are still selling well.
“Normally, we'd stop selling hardy mums one or two weeks before Halloween, but we're still going strong with them because people are still working outside,” owner Dave Gear said.
His stores are in West Chester, North College Hill and Anderson Township.
The nice weather also is luring people outside. Attendance at the Cincinnati Zoo has shot up 38 percent this month.
“The nice weather obviously has a lot to do with the increased attendence,” said Donna Oehler, the zoo's director of marketing and public relations.
“We're just hoping it continues to stay warm for the festivals coming up later this month.”
For now, the forecast is promising.
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