Holly Moses...32 Degrees...In Chicago Area..7am Jan 7...

[Stuart G]

A low temp for last nite..32 degrees, Jan 7..that would be an average temp low for late March or Early April..
Yes, this happens occasionally, but yesterday low temp was 40..We have had several days where the
temps have been 15 to 20 degrees above normal for January..usually our coldest month..

Average low temp is 17 at night and high is.. 28 in day.
Yesterday's high temp..55..oh well........

that is only 27 degrees above normal for this date...

No such thing as climate change..sure.......

[redqueen]

1. It's just the jet stream! It's just a cycle! Ignore those bubbles!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/12/1044726/-Breaking:-Bubbling--the-news-isnt-good?via=siderec

" The news ... Russian scientists have reported massive size methane bubbling in areas of Arctic ice retreat, far before anything ever recorded before."

[orpupilofnature57]

2. I'm in upstate N.Y. and it's 37 degrees 8:00 am

I love X-C sking ,I'm hugging a tree until it snows .Down with Fracking!!!!!

[Little Star]

3. 37 degrees here in MA at 8:45am. This time last year we were in a deep freeze! n/t

[Greybnk48]

4. It was 50 here just south of Green Bay yesterday.

On our local news last night our weatherman showed a pic someone had sent in of some guy cutting his grass yesterday afternoon with a riding mower!

We're supposed to get real cold here next thurs & fri with highs at about 18 or 20. We'll see.

[kestrel91316]

12. My sister and BIL in Milwaukee still had a green lawn at Christmas.

[qb]

5. Minneapolis has had 5 of 7 days above freezing this year. 40's this week & 45 forecast for next week

January is our typical below zero (Fahrenheit) month.

[dflprincess]

18. You know something is weird when a Minnesota weatherman says something like this:

"A chilly start tomorrow morning with a temperature of 26."

Usually in January we'd consider 26 to balmy.

[JNelson6563]

7. 35 in northern Michigan this morning

Usually people move to Alaska from here to escape the harsh winters. This winter is quite another story. Of course I am grateful as there are many of us who couldn't afford to be very warm if brutally cold outside.

Julie

[rgbecker]

8. Here's a web site where you can see heating degree days charted for various and current year.

This year is off the chart.

http://www.weatherdatadepot.com/?pi_ad_id=6251685145&gclid=CMyyxK-Kvq0CFQjd4AodcDA-Ag


Simply put in your zip code and compare this year with any previous year or look at heating degree days (Cumulative) for any heating season.

Great fun.

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. The 11th hour...when in fact we are actually at 11 hours 59 minutes and 59 seconds.

Watched the 11th hour documentary narrated by Leo DiCapario last night. It doesn't look good for Mother Earth and her inhabitants.

What can be done probably won't happen, at least not in time to save the environment.

It's the greed, stupid.


Feeling a little pessimistic this morning.

Probably shouldn't have watched it.

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. I know the feeling.

I can't watch the "nature" shows anymore....I find them too sad.

[jdadd]

10. 38 here in central Ohio, right now 9:39 am....

it was 55 yesterday....strange weather!!

[Gman]

11. A La Nina pattern enhanced by global warming

I think would be more accurate to say. Although a La Nina means colder and wetter for the Mid-West and Northeast, the current La Nina is a weak one, but it's still influencing weather. Global warming enhances the effects, IMHO. I'm sitting here in shorts and a t-shirt under a propane outdoor heater in South Central Texas. It's 52 on my thermometer. Warm for early January.

[laundry_queen]

19. Generally where I am

La Nina means tons and tons of precip in the form of snow. Last year was a strong La Nina year and we had so much snow that we had no where left to put it when we shoved our driveways. It was the most snow we'd had in 30 years or something. This year - nothing. A few hours here and there of freezing rain and an evening of just plain rain. A dusting of snow right before Christmas. That's about it. Wild fires are becoming a problem. I figured we were in for lots of snow again this year because of La Nina, but the pattern is definitely different this year. It's like an El Nino year here. It's strange. Our high today was 43F - I'm in the northern Canadian prairies. We are under another freezing rain warning. Up north where my ex lives, same thing - rained most of december - and it's never like that there. I realize that one year does not make climate change but this year is so incredibly odd. I don't remember anything like it growing up. We used to get chinooks but in between those it was freezing and snowy. Not this year, it's like the chinook hasn't stopped.

[Gman]

20. Our pattern here has also been similar to an El Niño

with closed lows coming from off Baja through northern Mexico and into Texas. In fact so similar that a local NWS forecast discussion in late November mentioned the pattern as being more similar to El Niño. But down here that's a good thing for us. Last Year's massive snows left snowpack from the Midwest to the Pole. Cold air wouldn't modify much and it was a damn cold winter.

[Stuart G]

13. It will be 40 tomorrow, 44, on Monday..,maybe 46 on Tues...

Now, 40 is only 12 degrees above normal, and 44 is 16 above..all of these days, like the last 2.. are suppposed to be...sunny and reasonably clear.

This is great weather for me, I have difficulty with walking thru snow and on ice. but.......it is very unusual for us in
the Chicago Area..there is some very resistent small green plants, growing near where I park..in early January...OF course..
there will be snow and more bad weather...of course..but this today, yesterday..and so on..is ?????.

[marmar]

14. Yep. The lowest high temperature forecast in Detroit over the next 5 days is 39.

...... and the temp is expected back up near 50 again by the end of the week.

[Pacafishmate]

16. Maybe climate change will make living in Chicago bearable.

[former9thward]

22. No it won't.

Chicago has high humidity and is miserable in the summer. Winters there were occasionally a sense of relief for me as the air got dryer but they are horrible too with the wind chill. Chicago has no good options no matter what the climate is doing.

[Renew Deal]

17. 57 today in NY

I was out in a t-shirt all day.

[Whisp]

21. methane plumes in Arctic...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/vast-methane-plumes-seen-in-arctic-ocean-as-sea-ice-retreats-6276278.html

Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane - a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide - have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive survey of the region.

The scale and volume of the methane release has astonished the head of the Russian research team who has been surveying the seabed of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf off northern Russia for nearly 20 years.

In an exclusive interview with The Independent, Igor Semiletov of the International Arctic Research Centre at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, who led the 8th joint US-Russia cruise of the East Siberian Arctic seas, said that he has never before witnessed the scale and force of the methane being released from beneath the Arctic seabed.

"Earlier we found torch-like structures like this but they were only tens of metres in diameter. This is the first time that we've found continuous, powerful and impressive seeping structures more than 1,000 metres in diameter. It's amazing," Dr Semiletov said.

"I was most impressed by the shear scale and the high density of the plumes. Over a relatively small area we found more than 100, but over a wider area there should be thousands of them," he said.

[redqueen]

25. This is so incredibly bad.

I don't know if people are just whistling past the graveyard or what.

[Whisp]

26. I am freaking out over the warm weather we are having

I live in one of the most populated cities that is the coldest in the world and it feels like spring out lately. I realize that there are historic records that will probably match but it doesn't make me feel much better.

I miss my square tires and snotsicles. Did I just say that?

[madinmaryland]

23. Are the Holly trees blooming, also??

[right on maude...]

24. But anyone growing up in Chicagoland knows one thing:

We will PAY FOR THIS eventually!