In Boston.
In February.
This is NOT why I moved here, dammit! :mad:
February is dry. February is cold. February is suffering, praying for spring. February is not 57 degrees and raining.
On the bright side, I’ll be able to get my garden in early, and we haven’t broken the bank heating our house. Still, not one decent snowfall all winter! Not ONE! CURSES!
I’m liking this weather. I haven’t even put my winter coat on this year. Our Lake George Winter Carnival starts this weekend and the lake isn’t frozen yet. Should make the outhouse races interesting. 
It’s possible the lake won’t freeze at all. Since record keeping started in 1907, the Winter of 1918-1919 is the only one where the Lake George failed to freeze.
I’m scared by the weather. It’s just <i>not normal</i>. We had a damned hot, long summer, too.
Not CURSES. CROCUSES! Think positively.
I heat with natural gas, and every time I hear the furnace go on I think that it might just be cheaper to heat by burning dollar bills. I’m going to take advantage of this weather this weekend, and do a few outside tasks while I can. And you and I both know New England; we could be given a great big sucker punch in April, so there’s plenty of time to get your wish.
I, for one, welcome our global warming overlords.
Well, technically, I’m mostly extrapolating from growing up in Wisconsin; this is only my second winter in Boston. I moved here to escape the unnaturally warm weather in Baltimore.
Anyway, my great fear is that, after such a mild winter, I’ll plant my garden in mid-late March only to have a freak late frost ruin everything.
A beautiful 61 degrees and sunny here at the Jersey Shore. Just ran to the store wearing a t-shirt. Ahhh…
Yeah, keep using those aerosol cans, people.
Midwinter. Toronto.
I haven’t worn my winter boots since the first week of January.
And it’s been well above freezing at times. I swear I saw green grass starting to grow a couple of weeks ago. It cooled off after then, but there’s been no snow.
It should be between -10 and -20C.
My reactions vary between “how convenient!” and “Damn, this is creepy.”
It’s only 40F here. Madison news said we’ve reached above freezing every day now for 44 in a row. I beleive we were in the mid 60’s in the last few weeks. That’s not as impressive as having tomatos in the garden through half of November though. Normaly a forst hits our low land garden around September 1st.
70 today. All my bulbs are coming up (but they’re gonna freeze to death this weekend!)
Winter’s far from over. 55 yesterday, 20 today. 
We’ve lost tomato plants to frost in May. Late May. Now we don’t garden until June, no matter what the neighbors are doing.
It has been a weird winter though. I don’t like it. Like Sunspace said, it’s creepy. Iowa only had one below-zero day in January, almost set a record.
A killer frost killed corn crops in Wisconsin and half way down into Iowa about ten years ago about the 4th of July. The days were rainy and the nights in the mid thirties for half a week before that.
Here in south Orange County in CA its 81 beautiful degrees.
It was around 80 today in New Orleans and right now at dusk, it’s 68 degrees in Picayune Mississippi (the high was 75).
I just hope y’all can take six more weeks of this.
(bolding mine) Dear Og, how much wetter can the Pacific Northwest get?
Here in Edmonton, one of the most northerly major cities around, it usually starts snowing in early-mid October, and the average temperature for this time of year is usually around -15C or so, and it’s not unusual for it to be -20 to -30 for an entire month right about now.
By now, my driveway usually has snow piled up about 5 feet high on each side from the snow I’ve shovelled. It stays there until spring.
This year, we have had almost no snow. I have yet to even wear my winter jacket. My snow shovel was out exactly once, scraping off an inch of snow. The other day it was raining. Grass is visible all around the city. The roads are dry and clear. City snow removal hasn’t left their garages even once this year. And we’re only two months away from spring now. The weather here all winter has felt about like a winter in Vancouver, without the rain. Dry, sunny, with temperatures above 0c most days.
It is, without a doubt, the strangest winter I’ve ever experienced in Edmonton.
One big drawback - my family loves to ski. We live only a couple of hours from Marmot Basin in Jasper, one of the great ski destinations.
You know what the weather is like there right now? It’s 5 degrees above zero (that’s about 42f). It’s been like that all winter. Usually by this time of year Marmot has maybe a 200cm base at the bottom of the hill. Today it’s 75cm ‘mid mountain’. That means bare patches near the bottom, exposed grass and rocks in areas, etc. Bleh.
Not all of New England is plauged with nasty snow. You’re about an hour too far to the east. Out here in the Springfield area, we’ve had a couple snowstorms. We’ve also had the strange warm rainy weather but this is something you get used to. I’ve live in MA all of my 26 years and I can’t remember a winter which didn’t have this kind of weather.
My sister just recently move to VA from the Cape. There were many times when I’d have to deal with over a foot of snow and all she got was rain (at the Cape)
Another plus, the Berkshires are really pretty when covered with snow.
Oh and the weather report here is a bit chilly with rain. Two days ago we had about 5 inches of snow on the ground. Now, it’s just mud.
Yeah! It was in the mid-50s here today, and windy. In February. In the Silicon Valley. It’s supposed to be in the mid-60s here, dang it all, and sunny. This is not why I moved here, dammit! :mad:
But the snow is getting better in the Sierras, at last.
Hijack!
