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Damage In Tolland

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Damage In Tolland

Damage In Tolland

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As has become as traditional as The Masters the fall marathon season is here. Scooter had done a fairly decent job over the years of giving a good forecast with plenty if lead time. The date is Nov 3. Hopefully it's snowy and cold .

My forecast calls for temps in the mid 40's and sun.

Toss them out as you think you know what the wx might be like

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As has become as traditional as The Masters the fall marathon season is here. Scooter had done a fairly decent job over the years of giving a good forecast with plenty if lead time. The date is Nov 3. Hopefully it's snowy and cold .

My forecast calls for temps in the mid 40's and sun.

Toss them out as you think you know what the wx might be like

40s and dry

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Fwiw 40s on marathon day is >10 below climo.

In the weather nightmares in the history of New York’s marathon, however, cold has very seldom been the concern. Heat has actually been the more worrying option, and the reason the race is now run in early November instead of its initial date in October. That move was prompted by the 1984 race, in which the temperature reached 79 degrees and the race had its first fatality, a French runner who died of a heart attack.

Here are the highlights and lowlights of the worst weather days in New York City Marathon history:

1984 The race founder and director, Fred Lebow, would later call this “the disaster of 1984,” with the death of 51-year-old Jacques Bussereau, who collapsed 14 miles into the race and died later. Dozens more were treated at area hospitals for heat-related conditions. The humidity ranged from 96 percent early in the day to 65 percent in the afternoon.

Of the 16,315 people who started that race, 14,590 of them crossed the finish line, a very low completion percentage (89.4) when usually around 93 percent of the starters finish. Orlando Pizzolato of Italy won the men’s race in 2 hours 14 minutes 53 seconds, which was six minutes slower than the winning time in 1983. Grete Waitz of Norway won her sixth women’s title, two minutes slower than the previous year.

Every time warm weather was forecast for the marathon, Lebow would flash back to the most treacherous day in his race’s history and worked to ensure that runners would have enough water available along the course.

1994 It was not nearly as hot as 1984, but the 68-degree temperature coupled with high humidity was bad enough that two runners died of heart attacks, the second and third deaths in the race’s history. (Lebow died of cancer four weeks before this race.)

The men’s winner, German Silva, made a mistake and took a wrong turn in the final mile, forcing him to run furiously to catch Benjamin Paredes. Silva made up the gap and earned himself the nickname Wrong Way Silva. Tegla Loroupe won the women’s race.

1995 A year after one of the hottest races, New York followed with a brutally cold, wet and windy day for the coldest of the New York City Marathons. The temperature reached only 40 degrees, although it was colder at the start when the wind chill factor was 18 degrees, with a mix of rain and snow and winds blowing at 20-30 miles per hour with some gusts to 58 m.p.h. There were no serious cold-related medical emergencies, but there were thousands of wet runners. Oddly enough, the same runners who won the hot 1994 race repeated as champions in 1995.

1990 The temperature reached the low 70s in this race and had organizers considering moving the race even later into November, but they eventually decided to leave it where it is.

Douglas Wakiihuri of Kenya won in 2:12:39, the slowest winning men’s time since 1984. Waitz ran for the first time since her final victory in 1988, but she dropped off the pace just to be able to finish, and Wanda Panfil of Poland won.

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