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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, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Monday February 20 2017, @06:15PM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Monday February 20 2017, @06:15PM (#469358) Journal

    Please, go easy on Runaway! The guy never had the opportunity to get much education, and bullshit is the only real skill he has. Besides, he has the same excuse that the President has: he was given this information, by Fox News, just like the information about the Bowling Green Swedish Carnage Massacree. (That sounds like a great name for a rock band?)

          Of course, if you are getting information that is actually not information, because it is not true, we cannot call it "alternative information", we instead call it "disinformation", or more simply, "lies". So this is not history repeating itself, it is only Runaway repeating himself. Again. Oh dear.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Whoever on Monday February 20 2017, @06:44PM

    by Whoever (4524) on Monday February 20 2017, @06:44PM (#469372) Journal

    just like the information about the Bowling Green Swedish Carnage Massacree.

    Don't forget the terror incident in Sweden a couple of days ago.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by gawdonblue on Monday February 20 2017, @09:02PM

      by gawdonblue (412) on Monday February 20 2017, @09:02PM (#469436)

      Did you hear what happened in Sweden? It was terrible.

      • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday February 21 2017, @02:15AM

        by Gaaark (41) on Tuesday February 21 2017, @02:15AM (#469544) Journal

        I hear they called shenanigans.

        Shenanigans!!!

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