A cold Thanksgiving day

As we head into Thanksgiving Day tomorrow, it’s going to be cold. It seemed to me that it’s been a while since we have had a really cold Thanksgiving day.  I checked back over the record book and sure enough it has been.  The last time it was this cold was back in 2002 when the Thanksgiving high was right about where it will be tomorrow…in the upper 20s.  Last year was actually the warmest since then…61 degrees. So this year is some 30 degrees colder than last year.

Looking back at the Thanksgiving high temperatures for specific years:

2012 - 61 degrees

2011 - 45 degrees

2010 - 54 degrees

2009 - 46 degrees

2008 - 39 degrees

2007 - 58 degrees

2006 - 56 degrees

2005 - 35 degrees

2004 - 48 degrees

2003 - 44 degrees

2002 - 28 degrees

(High temperatures listed above are official readings from the National Weather Service at Akron/Canton Airport.)