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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums40 degees in Minneapolis. How's the winter treating the rest of the country?
Minnesota is experiencing a unseasonably mild winter this year. The last time I can recall a winter this warm was maybe 1980. Yet I hear that other parts of the country are being hit with some rather atypically extreme weather this winter. How's the weather where you are? (Talking about the weather is a Mn state pastime.)
Btw, I do not believe that this trend will continue; last year was bitterly cold and we were up to our eyeballs in snow.
peace
Noodleboy
Raven
(13,877 posts)expecting a rain/ice storm tonight. I would much rather have the snow.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)more normal alaska than usual.
Phentex
(16,330 posts)if that tells you anything. We'll get a freeze in March for sure.
ProdigalJunkMail
(12,017 posts)and it forgot to show up...Winter sent in some lackey to do the job and he failed miserably.
sP
Noodleboy13
(422 posts)chemp
(730 posts)around 40 this afternoon. We've had 1 week of winter.
What climate change?
zappaman
(20,606 posts)84 degrees!!!!
Tikki
(14,549 posts)Tikki
surfdog
(624 posts)murielm99
(30,717 posts)It should be below freezing all month, except for the traditional January thaw. It has been above freezing for much of the winter. We have had many days in the forties, and even some fifties.
We are having rain and fog, instead of snow. There is only a little snow on the ground, lots of bare patches, and lots of mud. This is not right. My husband watches an ag program that says the winter wheat is sprouting in some parts of Kansas. It will turn dry and brown, and there will will be a lesser yield or no crop at all. The other crops will suffer, too. We are not meant to have mild winters here.
Noodleboy13
(422 posts)It seems that the upper mid-west has been going through a low key drought for several years. Grand Forks won't have to worry about the Red River flooding them out, but the sugar beet crop will suffer.
If we continue to get warmer here in MN, in 50-60 years the north shore of Superior would be awesome wine country.
Peace
Noodleboy
NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)They appear confused.
Don
Critters2
(30,889 posts)Way warmer than it should be, and too little snow. Only one really good snow so far. We should be right at the apex of our winter. This is just wrong.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Little Star
(17,055 posts)could not get rid of the ice build up! It was awful. I'm glad for the milder winter this year.
Phoonzang
(2,899 posts)A weak, weak, shameful winter. Moar snow!!!
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)We've been having large swings.
To day's high is 68, low was 60 .... in about 3 days, it will be high of 50, low of 31.
Seedersandleechers
(3,044 posts)Gas bill really low this winter.
Systematic Chaos
(8,601 posts)And no, we don't get the days with highs in the 40s to compensate. Not even when it's rainy and/or windy.
I'm sure all the natives here who whine their asses off when it gets within 10 degrees of freezing just love it, but to me this is very disturbing. Our electric bills triple in the summer trying to keep this apartment we're in cool (cool being defined as under 85 degrees), as it is. As soon as we can afford to move north, we're out of here. I fully expect this town to become uninhabitable in the summer in another couple decades. Summer heat waves in the 130s can't be too far off.
Sancho
(9,067 posts)and with all the hot air for the primary and repub convention - it may be a sunburn special in 2012!
izquierdista
(11,689 posts)It's 73 in Augusta, GA and the trees are starting to bloom.
justabob
(3,069 posts)I expect the daffodils and tulips to be rearing their heads any day now. We don't necessarily have cold winters here (Dallas) but we have not had much below freezing this "winter", just a few cold evenings and mornings with hard freezes. I don't remember having a whole winter this mild in my lifetime. There is still time for a proper cold spell, but the way the last year has been down here weather-wise, I doubt it is going to happen.
librechik
(30,674 posts)Snow and cold tomorrow. Exactly as always here in the Rockies.
RC
(25,592 posts)Neighbors rose bush
Budding tree in our front yard.
These were growing a couple of weeks ago.
These pictures were taken yesterday
After 45 years in North Dakota, I don't know how normal this is.
The temp is now 56.3°
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,619 posts)Forty degrees or so and dreary cold rain.
I know from experience that we can look forward to three weeks of days that don't crack 18.
It's an annual period of depression where I go to bed with 15 degrees on the thermometer and get up the next day to the same temp. It's usually in February.
Glorfindel
(9,719 posts)We had severe thunderstorms this morning. Now it's just cloudy and warm, mid-70's. The last of the camellias are blooming, as are the flowering quinces and Japanese magnolias. Plus I have seen a few paperwhite narcissus and daffodils here and there.
mailman82
(399 posts)I am getting ready to build an arc! We have had so much rain around here1
montanto
(2,966 posts)with an irritating breeze out of the west. We are compelled to go forth without coats or jackets, and with sunglasses and other defenses against that element. Horrible. You don't want to be here.
Gman
(24,780 posts)Loving it. I'll worry a out how hot the summer gets here in Texas later.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)Miserable, it was!
montanacowboy
(6,080 posts)never seen a winter like this here - in the 60's, 50 BELOW was normal. We have had only two small snow events, barely 12", just unreal. Used to be we had so much snow the horses could walk out of the pasture because the fences were covered with snow.
It's like a spring day, soon the grass will start growing.
Semi_subversive
(1,396 posts)over the weekend and now it's supposed to be in the mid-60s until the middle of next week. It's warmer this winter than it's been in a while. We're hoping for much more rain so we can fill our reservoirs.
taught_me_patience
(5,477 posts)It's actually a little too hot for my liking. It doesn't feel like winter at all.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)hedgehog
(36,286 posts)We've never had more than 6" of snow on the ground at a time this winter, and I've seen the grass more days than not!
What I expect is a four foot snowfall in mid-March followed by an ice storm in April!
TheWraith
(24,331 posts)A few degrees above normal. Overall, definitely much milder than an average winter, with a lot less snowfall than normal.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)However, this is a cooler than average day for THIS particular January. Yesterday it was 44 for the high, normal high for the date, but the LOW was 38, normal LOW is 22, so the day was 8 full degrees warmer anyway. We have had 1.1 inches of snow this year. It is not uncommon for that much snow to fall during an HOUR in winter. I cannot remember a winter that is so consistently warm and snow free.
renie408
(9,854 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)but according to the meterologist we have had more percipitation, in the form of rain, than last year.