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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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(Score: 2) by WalksOnDirt on Monday February 20 2017, @09:38PM
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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @12:37AM
But the path being followed is actually the "optimistic scenario": https://www.skepticalscience.com/Hansen-1988-prediction.htm [skepticalscience.com]