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From the CBC:
Much of the country is continuing to enjoy a six-week stretch of mild winter weather despite earlier predictions that Canada was headed for the deep-freeze.
From Calgary to Toronto, temperatures have been five to seven degrees above normal since early December, CBC meteorologist Johanna Wagstaffe reported Monday.
Several cities came close to breaking records last month, including Saskatoon, which had its second warmest December on record, and Toronto, where it was the fifth warmest.
And dozens and dozens of daily records have been broken, Wagstaffe said.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2012/01/09/calgary-weather-melt-national.html
Enjoy. Then drought. Thank God global warming is just a fraud being perpetrated by only 97.9% of the world's scientists!
rurallib
(62,406 posts)Flowers are sprouting in January in New Hampshire, the Sierra Mountains in California are nearly snow-free, and lakes in much of Michigan still have not frozen. It's 2012, and the new year is ringing in another ridiculously wacky winter for the U.S. In Fargo, North Dakota yesterday, the mercury soared to 55°F, breaking a 1908 record for warmest January day in recorded history.
More than 99% of North Dakota had no snow on the ground this morning, and over 95% of the country that normally has snow at this time of year had below-average snow cover. High temperatures in Nebraska yesterday were in the 60s, more than 30° above average. Storm activity has been almost nil over the past week over the entire U.S., with the jet stream bottled up far to the north in Canada.
It has been remarkable to look at the radar display day after day and see virtually no echoes, and it is very likely that this has been the driest first week of January in U.S. recorded history. Portions of northern New England, the Upper Midwest, and the mountains of the Western U.S. that are normally under a foot of more of snow by now have no snow, or just a dusting of less than an inch.
half of the U.S. had temperatures at least 5°F above average during the month of December, with portions of North Dakota and Minnesota seeing temperatures 9°F above average. The strangely warm and dry start to winter is not limited to the U.S--all of continental Europe experienced well above-average temperatures during December.
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it is a good read
izquierdista
(11,689 posts)Unusually early, even for Georgia.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)One guy is in Lucan for example..
Comparing videos of him driving around this winter vs. last one would think it's summer time