40 degees in Minneapolis. How's the winter treating the rest of the country?

[Noodleboy13]

Minnesota is experiencing a unseasonably mild winter this year. The last time I can recall a winter this warm was maybe 1980. Yet I hear that other parts of the country are being hit with some rather atypically extreme weather this winter. How's the weather where you are? (Talking about the weather is a Mn state pastime.)
Btw, I do not believe that this trend will continue; last year was bitterly cold and we were up to our eyeballs in snow.



peace
Noodleboy

[Raven]

1. It's 39 degrees here in NH and we are

expecting a rain/ice storm tonight. I would much rather have the snow.

[roguevalley]

26. lot more snow than usual and -21 going up to +10

more normal alaska than usual.

[Phentex]

2. Buds on the azaleas, forsythia in bloom...

if that tells you anything. We'll get a freeze in March for sure.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

3. La Niña has screwed up our Winter

and it forgot to show up...Winter sent in some lackey to do the job and he failed miserably.

sP

[Noodleboy13]

15. Jack Frost has always been a bit of slacker.

[chemp]

4. 60 degrees the other day here in RI

around 40 this afternoon. We've had 1 week of winter.

What climate change?

[zappaman]

5. 84 degrees in Los Angeles.

84 degrees!!!!

[Tikki]

36. 78F up the Coast, a bit, from Los Angeles...

Tikki

[surfdog]

6. 80° in Key West

[murielm99]

7. It is 35 degrees in Northern Illinois.

It should be below freezing all month, except for the traditional January thaw. It has been above freezing for much of the winter. We have had many days in the forties, and even some fifties.

We are having rain and fog, instead of snow. There is only a little snow on the ground, lots of bare patches, and lots of mud. This is not right. My husband watches an ag program that says the winter wheat is sprouting in some parts of Kansas. It will turn dry and brown, and there will will be a lesser yield or no crop at all. The other crops will suffer, too. We are not meant to have mild winters here.

[Noodleboy13]

12. Right. No snow is bad for farmers.

It seems that the upper mid-west has been going through a low key drought for several years. Grand Forks won't have to worry about the Red River flooding them out, but the sugar beet crop will suffer.
If we continue to get warmer here in MN, in 50-60 years the north shore of Superior would be awesome wine country.



Peace
Noodleboy

[NNN0LHI]

29. Bet I seen at least a thousand Canadian Geese flying north today here in Illinois

They appear confused.

Don

[Critters2]

41. High of 40 here, in North Central Illinois.

Way warmer than it should be, and too little snow. Only one really good snow so far. We should be right at the apex of our winter. This is just wrong.

[Cali_Democrat]

8. 80 degrees and sunny here in LA

[Little Star]

9. 38 degrees here in MA. Last year we were frozen....

could not get rid of the ice build up! It was awful. I'm glad for the milder winter this year.

[Phoonzang]

10. 45 and rainy in the Wilmington, DE area

A weak, weak, shameful winter. Moar snow!!!

[JoePhilly]

11. 68 degrees at 3pm in Raleigh area ... +16 relative to average.

We've been having large swings.

To day's high is 68, low was 60 .... in about 3 days, it will be high of 50, low of 31.

[Seedersandleechers]

13. 52 degrees in Kansas City

Gas bill really low this winter.

[Systematic Chaos]

14. Here in Las Vegas, should be low 50s; expecting a high near 70 today.

And no, we don't get the days with highs in the 40s to compensate. Not even when it's rainy and/or windy.

I'm sure all the natives here who whine their asses off when it gets within 10 degrees of freezing just love it, but to me this is very disturbing. Our electric bills triple in the summer trying to keep this apartment we're in cool (cool being defined as under 85 degrees), as it is. As soon as we can afford to move north, we're out of here. I fully expect this town to become uninhabitable in the summer in another couple decades. Summer heat waves in the 130s can't be too far off.

[Sancho]

16. A warmer than usual winter by 10 degrees here in Florida...

and with all the hot air for the primary and repub convention - it may be a sunburn special in 2012!

[izquierdista]

17. What winter?

It's 73 in Augusta, GA and the trees are starting to bloom.

[justabob]

35. that is my answer too

I expect the daffodils and tulips to be rearing their heads any day now. We don't necessarily have cold winters here (Dallas) but we have not had much below freezing this "winter", just a few cold evenings and mornings with hard freezes. I don't remember having a whole winter this mild in my lifetime. There is still time for a proper cold spell, but the way the last year has been down here weather-wise, I doubt it is going to happen.

[librechik]

18. 60 degrees and sunshine in Denver

Snow and cold tomorrow. Exactly as always here in the Rockies.

[RC]

19. Kansas City

Neighbors rose bush


Budding tree in our front yard.



These were growing a couple of weeks ago.

These pictures were taken yesterday
After 45 years in North Dakota, I don't know how normal this is.
The temp is now 56.3°

[southernyankeebelle]

20. Living in Tn the weather has been mild and we only had to fill our tank for oil one time.

[JohnnyRingo]

21. In NE Ohio it's like a week of March weather.

Forty degrees or so and dreary cold rain.
I know from experience that we can look forward to three weeks of days that don't crack 18.

It's an annual period of depression where I go to bed with 15 degrees on the thermometer and get up the next day to the same temp. It's usually in February.

[Glorfindel]

22. Very mild - even warmer than usual here in south MS

We had severe thunderstorms this morning. Now it's just cloudy and warm, mid-70's. The last of the camellias are blooming, as are the flowering quinces and Japanese magnolias. Plus I have seen a few paperwhite narcissus and daffodils here and there.

[mailman82]

23. Cleveland 42 and rain!

I am getting ready to build an arc! We have had so much rain around here1

[montanto]

24. Miserably warm and sunny here in L.A.,

with an irritating breeze out of the west. We are compelled to go forth without coats or jackets, and with sunglasses and other defenses against that element. Horrible. You don't want to be here.

[Gman]

25. Best winter in years

Loving it. I'll worry a out how hot the summer gets here in Texas later.

[SammyWinstonJack]

38. If this summer is like last summer...I don't want to be here for it.

Miserable, it was!

[montanacowboy]

27. Pushing 50 here in NW Montana

never seen a winter like this here - in the 60's, 50 BELOW was normal. We have had only two small snow events, barely 12", just unreal. Used to be we had so much snow the horses could walk out of the pasture because the fences were covered with snow.

It's like a spring day, soon the grass will start growing.

[Semi_subversive]

28. We had a few inches of rain in Sacramento

over the weekend and now it's supposed to be in the mid-60s until the middle of next week. It's warmer this winter than it's been in a while. We're hoping for much more rain so we can fill our reservoirs.

[taught_me_patience]

30. 80 and not a cloud in the sky in Long Beach

It's actually a little too hot for my liking. It doesn't feel like winter at all.

[NightWatcher]

31. NICE!!! 78 in Jax Fl. Heading to Miami where it's 80

[RockaFowler]

32. Upper 70's in South Florida

[Liberal_in_LA]

33. about 80 degress in Los angeles. Maybe warmer

[hedgehog]

34. It looks like late February, early March here in Oswego County.

We've never had more than 6" of snow on the ground at a time this winter, and I've seen the grass more days than not!

What I expect is a four foot snowfall in mid-March followed by an ice storm in April!

[TheWraith]

37. Right now, cold and damp, 34 degrees in western New York.

A few degrees above normal. Overall, definitely much milder than an average winter, with a lot less snowfall than normal.

[The Genealogist]

39. It is 46 today, quite near the normal of 44 here in Springfield, MO

However, this is a cooler than average day for THIS particular January. Yesterday it was 44 for the high, normal high for the date, but the LOW was 38, normal LOW is 22, so the day was 8 full degrees warmer anyway. We have had 1.1 inches of snow this year. It is not uncommon for that much snow to fall during an HOUR in winter. I cannot remember a winter that is so consistently warm and snow free.

[renie408]

40. We have only had one hard freeze this year. It is 66 today here in way upstate SC. n/t

[whistler162]

42. About the same in Central NY..

but according to the meterologist we have had more percipitation, in the form of rain, than last year.