2022 was the coldest start to the CASI St. Patricks Day Race! ·

12 Sep 2024, 00:00

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.

Rank	Year	Day	Temperature
1	2022	March 12th	9º
2	1997*	March 15th	10º
	1993*	March 13th	10º
4	1998*	March 14th	18º
5	2004*	March 13th	20º
6	2007*	March 17th	21º
	1983*	March 12th	21º
8	2009*	March 14th	22º
	2005*	March 12th	22º
10	2001*	March 17th	23º
11	2011	March 11th	25º
	1999*	March 13th	25º
	1988*	March 12th	25º
14	2014	March 15th	26º
	2008*	March 15th	26º
16	2019	March 16th	27º
	2018	March 17th	27º
18	1992*	March 14th	28º
	1984*	March 17th	28º
20	2017	March 18th	29º
	1996*	March 16th	29º
22	2013	March 16th	30º
	2003*	March 15th	30º
24	2002*	March 16th	30º
25	1982*	March 13th	31º
26	2020	Canceled 14th	32º
	2016	March 12th	32º
	1991*	March 16th	32º
29	1994*	March 12th	33º
	1990*	March 17th	33º
31	2015	March 14th	34º
32	1987*	March 14th	35º
33	1986*	March 15th	36º
34	1985*	March 16th	37º
35	2010	March 13th	42º
36	2012	March 17th	56º
37	2021	August 18th	61º
	2006*	March 11 or 18th	22º/45º
	2000*	March 11 or 18th	30º/31º
	1989*	March 11 or 18th	31º/19º
	1995*	March 11 or 18th	39º/36º

2006, 2000, 1995, & 1989 would have either been on the 11th or the 18th assuming the pattern.

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2022 was the coldest start to the CASI St. Patricks Day Race!

This year marked CASIs 40th annual St. Patricks 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 9! To add insult to injury, winds dropped feel like temperatures down to -10.

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