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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 Runaway1956 on Monday February 20 2017, @07:09PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 20 2017, @07:09PM (#469382) Journal

    Peak warmup, 8000 years ago? Slowly cooling since then? History in Europe demonstrates that the climate hasn't been steadily and slowly cooling for 8000 years. Remember that mini-ice age, that had people fearing that the earth was going to freeze over again? Are you sure you're not making stuff up now?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 20 2017, @08:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 20 2017, @08:35PM (#469424)

    Remember that mini-ice age, that had people fearing that the earth was going to freeze over again? Are you sure you're not making stuff up now?

    So this is not history repeating itself, it is only Runaway repeating himself. Again. Oh dear.

  • (Score: 2) by WalksOnDirt on Monday February 20 2017, @09:38PM

    by WalksOnDirt (5854) on Monday February 20 2017, @09:38PM (#469451) Journal

    It's well known. There was even a comic about it: https://xkcd.com/1732/ [xkcd.com]

    I'm sure you've seen this before. Perhaps you dismissed it because it was a comic, but the science [wikipedia.org] was established long before.

    Of course, we may have passed that by now. CO2 will do that.