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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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Springtime for America in February
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Everything you know is wrong!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 20 2017, @07:23PM
Just because the earth's atmosphere in general is heating doesn't imply that it's going to be uniform throughout the world. Hotter areas in the Americas are completely consistent with colder areas in Europe as the amount of thermal energy in the Americas has to come from somewhere. The amount of warming year over year is still relatively small, but over the course of many years it tends to add to climate change.
Ultimately, when there's more heat in the atmosphere, the weather patterns aren't going to be quite the same.