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actree

Not sure what is going on in the rest of the world for weather, but it is 73 here and been mild all winter.
 
Here in the finger lakes region been mild all winter and upper 70's for a week now, just have that funny feeling that when that jet stream shifts we in the northeast are going to get owned by momma nature.
 
No snow outside of the Halloween storm and pretty mild temps. Calling for 70s this week and spring about to begin. Not looking good for the summer!
 
Not sure how it is in NJ, but there is a big concern about winter moth here. Seems like a strange cycle. Calling for 75 Wednesday and 80 Thursday, not the typical NE weather.
 
Yeah were getting the same funny thing here. Silvers are starting to break their buds, its like 3-4 weeks ahead of schedule. Frogs are peeping, insects are out and about. Really really weird. They just shut down part of the trans canada highway cause of snow at the sasky/berta boarder, 50+cm. Very warm winter, it only dipped below -20 like 3 times and barely any snow. Grass is green already!
 
Last year at this time I was still plowing snow. Cherry's and Magnolias are ready to pop. Daffadills are blooming with the Snow drops. Usually the Snow drops are gone before the Daffs bloom. To all the Mid westerns becarefull this storm season.
 
Longest string of 80+ days in a row on record here. Like I say, only 3 seasins here. Spring, fall and hot. Have an intern coming down from Wisconsin for 10 weeks from May 21 to July 27. He will get an education in hydrating.
 
meanwhile in california....

it was really dry all winter until about a month ago. All the storms were staying north and hitting the PNW and BC. THen it started raining and snowing. We doubled our snowpack in the past month which is VERY GOOD, cuz it was going to be dry. I think we have a few more rains this spring before the dry season sets in, and, as usual, it doesn't rain all summer. California, the land of summer dormancy.

right now we have cool, dry air pushing in from the NW behind a mellow little cold front. We had a light rain last night - i think in Oregon they would have called it "mist" ;-)
 
NOAA states that this year's 'warm winter' over most of the nation has only happened 3 other times since weather recording began in 1890.

It seems NOAA attributes it to a strong La Nina year in combination with the Arctic Oscillation staying to the north and not dipping down into the USA as it usually does during the winter months.

-Diane


And others have chimed in:

"It's certainly not hyperbole to call this a historical weather event," AccuWeather Meteorologist Jim Andrews said. But he's not jumping on the global warming bandwagon just yet.
"If the proposition is that earth's climate is changing -- and most people say warming -- this is how it might manifest," he said. But he believes the unusual weather may be caused by a sort of "perfect storm coincidence" related to North Atlantic oscillation, Atlantic oscillation, the Pacific / North American Pattern, El Nina and La Nina.
"What happens in the oceans is undoubtedly very important to what happens on land," Andrews said. "It may well be that the state of the ocean water temperature surrounding North America is just in an ideal arrangement to maximize warmth over North America."
Expert Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski believes it's a culmination of causes.
"What we're seeing is probably an overlap of several parameters occurring simultaneously. Because of what happened over the winter, you have warm lakes, lack of snow cover. You have a carry over effect, too," Sosnowski said.
"I think the biggest thing in my opinion would be arctic oscillation. It trapped most of the arctic air in the far north and allowed milder air to sweep across Canada and much of the U.S."
 
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