77 in Nashville with no cloud in sight. The historical average is 49.
Mid 70s this afternoon in south GA. Lookin’ like that for the rest of the week too. I’m not complaining. I don’t like cold.
Lexington’s been the same way lately: mid-60s, sunny, light breeze.
It’s going to cool back down to the 50s by mid-week, though.
I’m just impressed to see that “light bill” is not just a Kentucky thing.
I hate to mention this, but ie was 13C in downtown Toronto today. Not a speck of snow, and I swear I saw green grass on the ground, in between the dead brown stuff.
We’ve had a dusting of snow once. Get north of the city, though, and there are areas where apparently there has been enough snow to cover the ground in places.
I’ve also been enjoying the unseasonable warm weather. I’m sure we’ll be experiencing blizzards in April or May to punish us.
A record 70 degrees in Louisville today.
We just had our first frost overnight. I think that this is a month or so later than usual. Suits me, I hate slidy pavements.
… I’m dreaming of a green Christmas…
You folks in Oz have the right idea. Christmas shounds like a great way to start the summer.
This is too disorienting. It’s in the 70’s in my region today, and all the airports made new records for Dec 18; the closest one broke the old record by more than 10 degrees F.
We’ve been warm in Chicago, too. One of my tulip bulbs came up! What’s up with that?
It’s been in the mid 50’s here in Central NY. We had one snow storm that was gone the next day, and was no big deal. I hope it stays this way all winter. My boyfriend lives 40 minutes away and don’t want to have to drive there in snow. Also, the plow guy charges me $35 every time he needs to come, when there’s 6" of snow or more. I’m saving money all over the place with this weather, and staying safe. We’ve had plenty of crappy, snowy winters, so I’ll take this break from it.
I think we hit 69 here today in Middle Georgia, and all I can say is, “Hey man, I’m lovin’ this shit!” I had nothing but 0s, -10s, and -20s last year. Kinda makes the two average out to a nice mild winter, eh?
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Oh, and there’s a lot less wind here too.
So I was out buying the annual $12 Christmas tree today and found myself thinking: “T-shirt and jeans, what was I thinking? I should be Xmas tree shopping in shorts. Make a note for next year.”
About 15-20 degrees warmer where I’m at. Was in the 40s all last week. No snow at all. Usually we would have several inches of snow on the ground but nothing but brown grass atm. Still seems like early late october.
It was in the mid-70s today! A record for us, I do believe. It’s supposed to be a bit more “normal” the rest of the week.
Except it’s not green here at the moment. Most of the country is deep in the worst drought experienced on record**. It’s pretty hot, the paddocks are bare of crops, stock are being sent to market or being shot because of lack of feed, and urban dwellers are whingeing madly because they can’t water their camellias and rose bushes. :rolleyes:
We’ve got unseasonably early major bushfires in NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia. Towns just a couple of hundred kilometres from me are burning as we speak, with the situation likely to worsen in the days and weeks to come…actually, now I ‘sniff’ the air, I can smell the smoke wafting down from the mountains all that distance away. A few days ago, the smoke was so bad that people suffering from asthma or other respiratory problems were advised to not venture outdoors. Today we couldn’t ‘see’ the smoke, but my nose tells me it is still there.
It’s going to be a bad year.
Nope, no ‘green’ Xmas here I’m afraid. 
**Funnily enough, parts of the western arid regions of Australia, the areas that are mostly desert and gibber-plains have had their highest ever recorded rainfall this year. Go figure.
I’ve read some material from arround 1900 where they were experiencing unexplainable what they called freak weather like what we have now. There’s always been weird swings and freak weather, so I recognise that a warm day in winter doesn’t prove anything on it’s own. The average global tempurature is a different matter. I also think the press and everybody else ignores the microwave effect that has increased so much in the last few decades. How much heating occurs from the use of so many transmitting devices. Some energy is assorbed by the air and ground molecules frome every transmission. Are we microwaving the planet to unlivable conditions, when adding it to the atsospheric changes already present?
This is just an uneducated WAG but I think it’s safe to say it’s insignificant, the amount of power we generate as radio vs. the power of the sun or just electricity in general. There’s some number for how big a solar array out West would have to be to power the US and it’s not all that big all things considered. Anyway, that’s just electricity in general; I’m sure we put out much, much much more raw heat though heating, A/C, and general electrical waste heat than through radio.
I really shouldn’t be able to walk around outside in the backyard in a long-sleeved shirt and jeans–and socks–at this time of year. I really, really shouldn’t.