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

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 WalksOnDirt on Monday February 20 2017, @05:16PM

    by WalksOnDirt (5854) on Monday February 20 2017, @05:16PM (#469331) Journal

    The jet streams have become less predictable, probably due to carbon dioxide. They make wilder swings resulting in warmer weather when the move towards the poles and cooler when they go the other way. This may be random or it may affect east and west differently - I don't know that we can tell yet. It's not easy to predict, and it hasn't been going long enough to trust the observations continuing.

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