• Bay State Games: The Bay State Winter Games celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2010. The event will be held January 22-24 in Northern Berkshire county.

• New Year’s Invitational: January 30-31 – New Year’s Invitation Adult Competition – Ashburn Ice House
• Easterns / Regionals: February 20-21, 2010, at the Triangle SportsPlex, Hillsborough, NC. Web site.
• Colonial Winter Challenge: March 13-14, 2010 at the Colonial Figure Skating Club, Boxborough, MA. Web Site.
• Adult Nationals: 2010 U.S. Adult Figure Skating Championships – Bloomington, Minnesota Web site.

For any of you stuck in snow, it happens to be 72 degrees today inland of Boston (January 6, 2007).  Everyone is outside jogging, walking, riding motocycles, golfing.  Yea Global Warming!

From Boston.com

Today’s temperature soared to 69 degrees at Boston’s Logan airport, seven degrees higher than the previous record for January 6, set in 1913, said Kimberly Buttrick of the National Weather Service in Taunton.

There’s also a new record high in Worcester, which has reached 65 degrees today, breaking the record of 57 degrees set in 1953.

Last year tied 1998 for the fourth-warmest year on record in Massachusetts, with an average temperature of about 53.1 degrees.

The National Weather Service has been keeping track of weather in Boston since 1872.