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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: 2) by Hawkwind on Monday February 20 2017, @04:42PM

    by Hawkwind (3531) on Monday February 20 2017, @04:42PM (#469308)

    Are there any sane discussions of this

    Well if I limit the question to the phenology of plants then I can offer up the the US Nat'l Phenology Network [usanpn.org] mentioned in the story. There's also been a lot of other studies going back decades.
     
    But in the U.S. we don't take about the impact of global warming as much as if there's such a thing, and if so what is causing it.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 20 2017, @04:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 20 2017, @04:46PM (#469313)

    Yeah, talk about the biggest distraction ever. Whoever helped frame this "discussion" is probably laughing like crazy. Well, villainously is probably more accurate.