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: 2) by WalksOnDirt on Monday February 20 2017, @05:16PM
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.