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Springtime for America in February

posted by cmn32480 on Monday February 20 2017, @03:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the spring-has-sprung dept.

butthurt writes:

The Washington Post reports that the "lower 48" states of the USA are enjoying spring-like weather. It quotes a meteorologist as saying 1495 record high temperatures have been reached during the month of February (as against 10 record lows); among them:

  • Magnum, Okla., hit 99 degrees [Fahrenheit, 37.2° Celsius] on Feb. 11 — tying the state record for hottest winter temperature ever recorded. Yet it occurred two weeks earlier than the record it matched from Feb. 24, 1918, set in the town of Arapaho.
  • Denver hit 80 degrees [Fahrenheit, 26.7° Celsius] Feb. 10 — its warmest February temperature on record dating back to 1872.
  • Norfolk hit 82 degrees [Fahrenheit, 27.8° Celsius] Feb. 12, tying its warmest February temperature on record dating back to 1874.

[Ed Note: it is actually Mangum, OK, not Magnum. The original WaPo article is incorrect.]

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by goodie on Monday February 20 2017, @04:32PM

    by goodie (1877) on Monday February 20 2017, @04:32PM (#469303) Journal

    And we just had positive temperatures (as in +7/8 celsius) during the weekend. I've not lived here my entire life but it's pretty unprecedented from what I hear.

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  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Monday February 20 2017, @08:35PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Monday February 20 2017, @08:35PM (#469425) Homepage Journal

    Illinois. I turn 65 this year and have only seen warmer Februarys in two of the five years I lived in Florida and the year I was stationed in Thailand, where there is no such thing as winter. It's over seventy F right now!

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