This year marked CASI’s 40th annual St. Patrick’s Day 5K, and if you were out there running this morning you know it was a cold race.That might just be an understatement… Low temperatures this morning dropped all the way to 9º! To add insult to injury, winds dropped feel like temperatures down to -10º. Fortunately, by the time the race started it had warmed to a balmy 15º with a wind chill value around -1º.A low of 9º this morning might take the cake for the coldest start for any CASI St.
Patrick’s Day Race since it began in the early 1980s! Here’s a look at the 5 coldest starts.Since the 5k began about 40 years ago these are the low temperatures for each race for the past 40 years.A year with an * marks years that were not confirmed race days. Could only find official race days dating back to 2010. Following the pattern of the Saturday preceding St.
Patrick’s Day (March 17th) this is what we found.RankYearDayTemperature12022March 12th9º21997*March 15th10º1993*March 13th10º41998*March 14th18º52004*March 13th20º62007*March 17th21º1983*March 12th21º82009*March 14th22º2005*March 12th22º102001*March 17th23º112011March 11th25º1999*March 13th25º1988*March 12th25º142014March 15th26º2008*March 15th26º162019March 16th27º2018March 17th27º181992*March 14th28º1984*March 17th28º202017March 18th29º1996*March 16th29º222013March 16th30º2003*March 15th30º242002*March 16th30º251982*March 13th31º262020*Canceled 14th*32º2016March 12th32º1991*March 16th32º291994*March 12th33º1990*March 17th33º312015March 14th34º321987*March 14th35º331986*March 15th36º341985*March 16th37º352010March 13th42º362012March 17th56º372021August 18th61º2006*March 11 or 18th22º/45º2000*March 11 or 18th30º/31º1989*March 11 or 18th31º/19º1995*March 11 or 18th39º/36º2006, 2000, 1995, & 1989 would have either been on the 11th or the 18th assuming the pattern.ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7sMHRqqyanJOewaqx0meaqKVfrLKiwMeeqWhqYGd%2FbsPArGStoJVisLC4w56qrWWjqa6zwIytpmasmJp6pK3SomSsrF2lrrW%2ByJyirGWUlsZuvsCcnGg%3D