Winter golf! How rare is another 60 degree February day?

*The above video shows a snow squall in NE Ohio earlier this winter, but very mild weather is the talk of the town Thursday*

CLEVELAND (WJW) — The forecasted high Friday is 64 degrees, a whopping 20 degrees above normal for this time of year!

By late Thursday afternoon, the temperarture hit 63 degrees at Hopkins International Airport where Cleveland’s official weather statistics are kept.

That came within 6 degrees of the warmest temperature ever recorded on a February 8 in Cleveland which was 69 degrees in 1937, according to Fox 8 meteorlogist Mackenzie Bart.

While it’s usually colder near Lake Erie this time of year when a north breeze blows across the winter chilled water, a strong south wind pushed the thermometer to 66 degrees at Burke Lakefront Airport Thursday.

The record high temperature for the month of February in Cleveland was 77 degrees on February 24 of 2017, of course that date is much closer to March.

February temperatures over 60 degrees in Cleveland are not common, but they’re not exactly rare either, according to Fox 8 meteorlogists.

The average high temperature for Cleveland in early February is 35 degrees.