As he stepped outside, he hoped that the sky would clear and that by the afternoon the mercury would climb.

On Dec. 2, the mercury climbed to 70 degrees in Central Park, a record high for the day.

And the higher the mercury climbs, the less energy we seem to have for preparing dinner.

As the mercury climbs gently spring can be a wonderful motivator, prompting you to declutter your life and clean up your act.

On a midsummer afternoon, as high humidity slumps over tropical land and the mercury climbs to the low 90's, boaters play under a constantly working breeze.

So far, customers have tended to revert to sheerer leg wear when the mercury climbs.

Everyone looking for a missing college coed while the mercury climbed to nearly a hundred degrees.

On Friday the mercury had climbed to forty-eight degrees in Montreal.

In Central Park, the mercury climbed to 86 degrees, obliterating the previous record by 11 degrees.

And when the mercury climbs, the rest of the tea-drinking world may soon follow suit: Nestea is already sold in Taiwan and Italy.