Temps Shatter New England Records...01/04/00

BOSTON (AP) - Golfers love it, skiers hate it and skaters think it's fine - as long as the ice doesn't melt. Monday's 60-something temperatures shattered records throughout New England. The mercury registered 64 degrees at Logan International Airport, breaking the old record for the date of 62 set in 1913. Records were also broken in Concord, N.H., Portland, Maine, Providence, R.I., and Burlington, Vt. "It is a bit spooky," said Joshua Cohen, who ate his lunch in shirtsleeves on a park bench in Boston's Post Office Square as coatless businesspeople strolled by. Gesturing at a patch of green grass, Cohen, an information technology specialist, said he appreciated eating fried chicken outside Jan. 3. His father, an avid skier who lives in Manchester, N.H., wasn't so sanguine.