# It's currently 57 degrees Fahrenheit (14 Celcius). **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 3, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-currently-57-degrees-fahrenheit-14-celcius/342895 "2006-02-03T20:23:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-currently-57-degrees-fahrenheit-14-celcius/342895/1 "2006-02-03T20:23:05Z")
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!** ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-currently-57-degrees-fahrenheit-14-celcius/342895/2 "2006-02-03T20:31:40Z")
> [@The Weird One](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-currently-57-degrees-fahrenheit-14-celcius/342895/3 "2006-02-03T20:54:15Z")
I’m scared by the weather. It’s just \not normal\. We had a damned hot, long summer, too. ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-currently-57-degrees-fahrenheit-14-celcius/342895/4 "2006-02-03T21:13:32Z")
> [@The Weird One](#): > > 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!** 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. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-currently-57-degrees-fahrenheit-14-celcius/342895/5 "2006-02-03T21:18:45Z")
> [@Plynck](#): > > _snip_ 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. > _snip_ 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. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-currently-57-degrees-fahrenheit-14-celcius/342895/6 "2006-02-03T21:24:10Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-currently-57-degrees-fahrenheit-14-celcius/342895/7 "2006-02-03T21:26:42Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-currently-57-degrees-fahrenheit-14-celcius/342895/8 "2006-02-03T21:37:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-currently-57-degrees-fahrenheit-14-celcius/342895/9 "2006-02-03T22:39:42Z")
70 today. All my bulbs are coming up (but they’re gonna freeze to death this weekend!) ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-currently-57-degrees-fahrenheit-14-celcius/342895/10 "2006-02-03T23:06:18Z")
> [@The Weird One](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-currently-57-degrees-fahrenheit-14-celcius/342895/11 "2006-02-03T23:39:40Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2006, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-currently-57-degrees-fahrenheit-14-celcius/342895/12 "2006-02-03T23:43:40Z")
Here in south Orange County in CA its 81 beautiful degrees. ---
**Author:** ![jasonh300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jasonh300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasonh300)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-currently-57-degrees-fahrenheit-14-celcius/342895/13 "2006-02-04T00:16:47Z")
It was around 80 today in New Orleans and right now at dusk, it’s 68 degrees in Picayune Mississippi (the high was 75). ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-currently-57-degrees-fahrenheit-14-celcius/342895/14 "2006-02-04T01:24:45Z")
> [@jasonh300](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-currently-57-degrees-fahrenheit-14-celcius/342895/15 "2006-02-04T07:57:50Z")
> [@Patty O'Furniture](#): > > I just hope y’all can take six more weeks of this. How about much of the rest of the year? > [@](#): > > Climate experts Thursday confirmed the start of La Nina — a mild cooling of the tropical Pacific Ocean that often coincides with stronger and more numerous hurricanes, a wetter Pacific Northwest and a drier South. > > La Nina will probably last through late spring and possibly through the summer, said Edward Alan O’Lenic, chief of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center. > > The center confirmed jet stream changes and lower-than-normal water temperatures in parts of the Pacific Ocean in the past three months, O’Lenic said at a meeting of the American Meteorological Society in Atlanta. Source: [AP Wire Story](http://www.kgw.com/environment/stories/kgw_020306_env_la_nina.6994fd98.html) [More La Nina news links](http://news.google.com/news?sourceid=mozilla-search&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&client=mozilla&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aunofficial&tab=wn&q=%22la+nina%22&btnG=Search+News) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-currently-57-degrees-fahrenheit-14-celcius/342895/16 "2006-02-04T16:47:25Z")
> [@](#): > > Climate experts Thursday confirmed the start of La Nina — a mild cooling of the tropical Pacific Ocean that often coincides with stronger and more numerous hurricanes, **a wetter Pacific Northwest** and a drier South. (bolding mine) Dear Og, how much wetter can the Pacific Northwest _get_? ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-currently-57-degrees-fahrenheit-14-celcius/342895/17 "2006-02-04T18:54:48Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-currently-57-degrees-fahrenheit-14-celcius/342895/18 "2006-02-04T19:00:34Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-currently-57-degrees-fahrenheit-14-celcius/342895/19 "2006-02-05T01:43:44Z")
> [@The Weird One](#): > > Still, not one decent snowfall all winter! Not ONE! **CURSES!** 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. ---
**Author:** ![633squadron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/ee59a6/32.png) [@633squadron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/633squadron)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-currently-57-degrees-fahrenheit-14-celcius/342895/20 "2006-02-05T02:06:36Z")
> [@The Weird One](#): > > In Boston. > > In February. > > This is _NOT_ why I moved here, dammit! :mad: 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! 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-currently-57-degrees-fahrenheit-14-celcius/342895.md?page=2)