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Marching bands, floats and throngs of spectators were soaked by
one to two inches (2.5 to 5 centimeters) of New Year’s Day rain
at the 137th Rose Parade in Pasadena. The mercury stood at a
chilly 58 degrees Fahrenheit (14.4 degrees Celsius) at the 8
a.m. start of the parade.
Across the country, in New York City, hats and gloves were as
necessary as noisemakers at the city's New Year's Eve ball drop,
where temperatures near freezing appeared to be the coldest in
10 years.
Hundreds of thousands of people gather along the nearly six-mile
(10-kilometer) route in Pasadena, where the two-hour parade
kicked off. Millions more watch on national television.
Organizers at the Pasadena Tournament of Roses, the group that
organizes the parade ahead of the Rose Bowl college football
game, said they made only small changes to accommodate the
weather, such as the tops being up on convertibles carrying
grand marshal Earvin “Magic” Johnson and other VIPs.
Rain forecasts for the Rose Parade, which had been dry for 20
years, grew all week. On Thursday, the National Weather Service
issued a flood watch for all California counties and a coastal
flood advisory through Sunday afternoon along much of the
Pacific Coast near San Francisco.
Meanwhile, residents in the areas hit hardest by last year's
devastating Los Angeles-area wildfires were under evacuation
warnings.
In New York City, the sun came out ahead of Mayor Zohran
Mamdani's inaugural celebration, but other areas of the
Northeast and Midwest were hit by an Alberta clipper storm and
trailing Arctic front that brought snow squalls and high winds.
Conditions varied widely — from snow showers to heavier squalls
— from Wisconsin through northern Illinois and Michigan and into
northern New Jersey, southeastern New York and New England.
About a quarter of flights were delayed out of both San Diego
International Airport and Boston Logan, according to the flight
tracking website FlightAware.
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