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:
[Ed Note: it is actually Mangum, OK, not Magnum. The original WaPo article is incorrect.]
(Score: 1) by moondoctor on Monday February 20 2017, @05:06PM
The key is in your username. I think the freakout is because the general consensus is that it appears it's happening orders of magnitude faster than ever before.