I don’t care that this isn’t normal! It’s freakin’ great! I’m half tempted to say screw the polar bears and gimmie global warming! I’ve got the windows open and the heat off. Aaah.
I’m with you. Warm is good. I’ve always said, if global warming goes critical, and the poles melt, seas rise, I’m sitting on beachfront property here in central PA. 
Seriously, someone here posted that the 2nd was the helio-something (Ican’t find it) - the closest point of the Earth to the Sun in it’s orbit. Just a WAG, that must be a couple million miles, which would have to make some difference. Still, I think most of it is GW.
Global warming or GW Bush, take your pick…
What the hell, Tuck. It’s raining like 60 here . Close your windows darnit.
The how are the cats going to be able to come in out of the rain?
It was really nice here yesterday.
Now we’re in the midst of a blizzard. 
~Tasha
Accuweather is predicting 72° for DC tomorrow, nearly 30° above average!
Not me. I like warm weather a lot, but I’m actually jonesin’ for some snow. Not a lot, mind you, maybe just 2-3 snowstorms and then I’ll be good. It’s not normal!
They’re calling for 71° in my part of Jersey tomorrow. Imagine what it would be like if it were sunny!
It’ll hit 13c/55F here in Burlington. Ontario today, which is absurdly warm for January. I hate snow, so I’m not complaining.
Speaking as a Canadian who doesn’t live near the oceans, I say, bring on the global warming!
Yup. 12C/54F here in southern Ontario, and it’s freakin’ awesome. Not the best weather for the business that I’m in, certainly, but I’ll still take this over frigid temps and mucky snow any day.
Why did you guys hog all the good weather? It was rainy and grey and wet in Toronto today. Thanks a lot. 
Least distance=147.5 million km
Greatest distance=152.6 million km
Radiation intensity decreases as the inverse square of the distance.
147,500,000^2=~2.210^16 km^2
152,600,000^2=~2.310^16 km^2
There’s barely any difference between the two.
Plus, of course, the Northern and Southern Hemispheres are the same distance from the sun, yet experience opposite seasons at perihelion and aphelion. The distance from the sun doesn’t matter at all. What’s important is the angle at twhich the sun’s rays hit us.
You realise, of course, that, if the Antarctic ice cap melts, it will raise the sea level by 100 metres. You also realise that Lake Ontario is 76 metres above our present sea level.
Where do you live in Burlington again? At the top of the hill? You might have some nice beachfront property, once you clear the debris of smashed buildings, oil, and plastic from it.
Well, it’s 68 and rainy here, and it’s January 6th, 12:14a.m. EST.
See my post, #3, in this thread.
The reason I suffer through June and July is to enjoy nice warm winters- about 20 degrees warmer than this, usually. I’m gettin’ robbed over here.
I’m not, generally speaking, against pleasant weather.
But I like things in their proper order. It’s time for cold weather.
And it hasn’t been that pleasant, honestly*. It’s just drab and grey and muddy and depressing, instead. It’s like month upon month of November. That’s just not something I can get hepped up about.
*Where I am, of course.
It’s almost 1:00 AM. My furnace hasn’t turned on in the past few days, and I’ve got the family room windows open.
I’m in Cleveland, Ohio.