It's beginning to look a lot like ...... early March?

[marmar]

40 degrees, sunny, and not a flake of snow on the green grass in southeast Michigan.


..... and Happy Holidays, DU!

[frazzled]

1. Just wait

I'm not getting too smug about the mild winter we've had so far, because there are still three months ahead, and predictions were that my area (Chicago) was going to have really bad weather this winter.

I've set my expectations on low so that anything better than constant frigid stop-down blizzards will seem very nice to me.

[frazzled]

10. Heh, if you thought you were going to get me with that Packers-Bears prediction

You've got the wrong person! Since I seem to be one of the rare people in this country who doesn't care a whit about football, I wish you luck! May the best team win (though I won't care which it is).

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. The two conures are starting to act

like the Jeckil and Hyde of mating season.

[EFerrari]

3. I knew it was cold here

but not that it was colder than Michigan! It was 37 this morning and our average low is 43. The cats and dog were using me as a hot water bottle, lol.

[ohheckyeah]

4. We've had weather in the 50s and

60s most of December and I'm in the mountains of Virginia. It was so warm one day I dropped the top on the convertible when I drove into town.

[cthulu2016]

5. Chestnuts roasting on the sidewalk

[rocktivity]

7. Same here in the NYC area, but about 10 degrees warmer

I've become accustomed to not expecting really cold weather until January -- though we did get more than a foot of snow here LAST Christmas Day.




rocktivity

[indykatie1955]

13. 48 and Sunny in Indianapolis N/T

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Same here in KC

We don't always have snow on Christmas but it's unseasonably warm here.

Merry Christmas, marmar!

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

9. In SW Michigan also.

I'm not getting too comfortable but enjoying every day.

A link for long term weather, very interesting site and project.
Gary Lezak was dead on last year!

Merry Christmas, Marmar

http://lrcweather.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=24&Itemid=29

[CurtEastPoint]

11. GA: I noticed fat robins yesterday and new growth on butterfly bush, blooming lantana...

Other perennials trying to re-sprout. VERY odd for December!

[emilyg]

12. My calla lilies are

trying to bloom again.

[lunasun]

14. Very sunny & 43 degrees right now in suburb of Chicago -we went for a walk in the woods.....

without mukluks or even a hat!!

[Yooperman]

15. Mid 20s up here in the Upper Peninsula... however

We have not had much snow... and really compared to the winters of the 70s this is very very mild.

Growing up here in the 60s and 70s... 30 below..40 below were not uncommon and even a couple 50 below nights occasionally.

Now if we get 20 below it is "unusually" cold.

I am sure we will have a few monster snow storms in January and February... but winters have really gotten much easier up here over the last couple of decades.

GO LIONS!!

[DeathToTheOil]

16. Just remember: GLOBAL WARMING = SATANIC HOAX!!!

[opihimoimoi]

17. cold snap here in Kaneohe...68 F brings out the jackets n blankets

I noes it sounds stupid and its teasing,,,, but....its fo Real

[sarcasmo]

18. No snow in western Michigan either, Jenison to be exact.

[AtomicKitten]

19. It's been pretty nippy here in SF.