OK! Where did the WINTER go???

[Yankeegirl]

What is up with this wacky weather? It snowed on Christmas eve, now its in the 70's out.... I would really like my winter back! Does anyone know if or when something maybe cold will chill us out again?

[Scorpion]

Lol be lucky you got snow. Here its in the high 70's and the lows in the mid 60's. This is above normal even for South Florida.

[vbhoutex]

That will depend on what you call cold. Later this week we will go back to 50's for highs for a few days with lows in the 40's but there won't be any real cool down of significance till after the 15th or so.

[Brent]

I'm about to pull out the SHORTS here! It's 72 and feels like it's in the 80's. I want WINTER back(but ONLY if it will snow).

In July, we'll be wishing it was like this though.

[vbhoutex]

About to pull out the shorts??? They've beenout for several days here!!

[Kennethb]

Here in Baton Rouge, I recall watching WGN and Tom Skilling many times back in the winter of 1987- 1988 wearing my flip flops and shorts, while Chicago and the north was in the deep freeze. Yet here it snowed twice in 3 days that February. It's not that unusual to have warm weather like this down south during the winter. That will make the maples, magnolias, and azaleas begin to bloom soon. But like usual they will have to endure through some freezes and frosts.

[Cookiely]

Its so warm my mother is harvesting eggplant and tomatos are ripening on the vine.

[LAwxrgal]

This explains why we're so warm:

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Basically, because the west is so cool and there's a strong trough there.

Like you I want my winter back (or at least cooler temps) I had my AC on today!

[Skywatch_NC]

52 degree spread here yesterday...low of 25F to a high of 77F at RDU Int'l!!

Eric

[Yankeegirl]

I just had to turn down the A/C cause it was too hot in here!

[southerngale]

I've been running my A/C for days.

[Amanzi]

75 here.... I just got back from the beach

[Suncat]

Is there some inverse relationship to this unusual warm spell we are having now to a real nasty artic blast in the future?

[Keith234]

yes...there normally is. just like a ball thrown really high it hit's the ground hard.

[Skywatch_NC]

I have a confession to make ... that 25F temp for yesterday morning that I mentioned...I blooped at looking at a Celsius reading instead of a Fahrenheit reading...the actual low temp was 44F!

Eric

[Suncat]

yes...there normally is. just like a ball thrown really high it hit's the ground hard.

That's what I'm thinking. Another major ice storm in late January or early February.
Well, at least the transformers are pretty when the overload and blow up at night!

[Brent]

I have a confession to make ... that 25F temp for yesterday morning that I mentioned...I blooped at looking at a Celsius reading instead of a Fahrenheit reading...the actual low temp was 44F!

Eric

I thought a 25-77 difference today was a TAD extreme.

[Skywatch_NC]

I have a confession to make ... that 25F temp for yesterday morning that I mentioned...I blooped at looking at a Celsius reading instead of a Fahrenheit reading...the actual low temp was 44F!

Eric

I thought a 25-77 difference today was a TAD extreme.

...also actually another Wxbuddy at another site where I had posted about that low and high occurring yesterday...he caught my faux pas...for which I'm grateful...will be a lot more careful for now on when reviewing stats there at Weather Underground!

[PTrackerLA]

I think winter will come back hard when it decides to. Remeber how warm November/early Deceber was around here and then the arctic fronts starting coming. Can't remember the last time we stayed below freezing for almost three days but it happened over Christmas! Mother nature always balances herself out, or at least thats the way it seems to happen .

[Kelarie]

Please hurry, Miss Mother Nature, running my A/C in January seems sooooo wrong!!