The temperature gauge in my car said it was 40 degrees when I got to Wrigley Field this morning, but it did not feel that “warm.” It was very windy and I’m sure the wind chill was in the teens.
Sometimes high winds force construction projects like this to shut down, but not this one on this day. There was still quite a bit of work going on in the right-field corner where the ballpark has been pretty much whittled down to its steel frame, and in the left-field corner where new decks are being built, you can see the beginnings of wood frames likely for concrete to be poured (photos 5 and 8, and sorry for the angle, sorry for the weird angle, it’s not easy to put my phone through a gap in the fence and snap a photo at the same time, especially when it’s so cold!