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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 takyon on Monday February 20 2017, @08:20PM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Monday February 20 2017, @08:20PM (#469417) Journal

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Monday February 20 2017, @09:32PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 20 2017, @09:32PM (#469447)

    What I like about his sort of trolling is the response is always in defense of the inevitable proposal that the only solution is "workers of the world unite" and rarely "muh numbers". Because the environmental record of the Soviets was so legendarily good, because they executed anyone who complained. Which I'm sure the God Emperor will implement soon...

    A nice side dish is a hefty serving of "there's nothing to do and no solution but anyone who complains about our complaining, is a big poopy face"

    We seem to have a dish of the latter rather than the former.

    There is a very practical non-trolly engineering type response of none of this matters which is both almost certainly true AND it winds people of the crusader persuasion up quite a bit, so I like that 3rd dish too.

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 21 2017, @03:32AM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday February 21 2017, @03:32AM (#469556) Journal

      Shut the fuck up, Donnie, you're outta yer element.

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