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Mild winter continues with near-record temperatures

Staff photo by Greg Lynch Construction continues on Edgewood High School Tuesday. Workers are installing roofing on the gymnasium.

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By Andy Sedlak, Staff Writer 8:17 PM Tuesday, January 31, 2012

A school board member in Butler County with his eye on the construction of a new high school said his district “can’t ask for more.”

Mellow January weather has worked to the benefit of many regional businesses and projects.

Tuesday’s high of 61 degrees came within shouting distance of the record of 64 degrees set in 1917, according to the National Weather Service in Wilmington.

Normal January highs are in the mid-30s, according to News Center 7 Meteorologist Rich Wirdzek, who says 2012 has been “exceptionally mild” so far.

He’s calling for more above-average high temperatures for the first week of February.

Construction crews on Tuesday were working on Edgewood City Schools’ new high school to ready the structure for the 2012-13 school year.

“We couldn’t have asked for better fall and winter weather than what we’ve had — we’re ahead of schedule and under budget,” school board member Jim Miller said.

The total number of crashes handled by the Ohio Highway Patrol’s Dayton Post was 127 in January — 57 fewer than the 184 crashes in January 2011, according to patrol Sgt. Chris Colbert.

But the shift in weather also produces in a shift in problems for troopers. In comparing three-month spans between this winter and last, the workload for the patrol post is more or less a push.

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