Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Warmest Christmas Eve on record to unfold across eastern US

By , Senior Meteorologist
December 23,2015; 8:49PM,EST
 
 
Any hopes of a white Christmas that the weekend chill brought will be dashed in the eastern United States, with this Christmas Eve shaping up to be the warmest on record in many communities.
According to AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Tom Kines, "On Christmas Eve, parts of the mid-Atlantic and New England could be just as warm as they were on the Fourth of July."
Record high temperatures, including some record warm minimum temperatures, are likely to be set from Florida to Maine.
More record warmth poised to bask the East

According to AccuWeather Chief Long Range Meteorologist Paul Pastelok, "On Christmas Eve, daily record highs may be broken in the morning, followed by monthly record highs in the afternoon."
Records in the major cities of the Eastern states date back to the middle 1800s.

Another northward bulge in the jet stream will be responsible for the warmth in the East this week.
The jet stream is a strong river of air high in the atmosphere that guides weather systems and separates warm air to the south from cold air to the north.

Christmas Eve will feel more like Easter with highs ranging from the 50s in Maine to the 70s in the mid-Atlantic and the lower 80s in parts of the Southeast. That equates to highs that are 15 to 35 degrees Fahrenheit above normal.
"Temperatures could touch 80 as far north as the mid-Atlantic states," Pastelok said.
Widespread record highs will not only be challenged but also shattered in many towns and cities. The potential exists for records to be topped by more than 10 degrees from Atlanta to Washington, D.C., to Philadelphia to New York City and to Burlington, Vermont.
"It appears high temperatures will be in the 70s on Christmas Eve in New York City, which is about 35 degrees above normal for the date," AccuWeather Meteorologist Bill Deger said. "It was also unusually warm last Christmas Eve in 2014, when Central Park reached 58 F for a high."
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Forecast temperature maps

Subtropical air will be drawn northward along with the warmth and will make it feel humid to some people.
Along with erasing any hopes for a white Christmas, the warmth will mean residents can leave the heavy winter jackets, hats or mittens at home when heading out for last-minute shopping or to Christmas Eve services.
The only chance of a white Christmas will be in the Tug Hill region of New York state, east of Lake Ontario, and northern Maine, where old snow may remain on the ground.
The warmth will come despite some clouds and a couple of showers in the area. Those wanting to take advantage of the warmth by caroling, taking a walk, firing up the grill or engaging in any other outdoor activity should plan to keep an umbrella handy.
The passage of a cold front will ease the extreme warmth in the Northeast for Christmas Day, but temperatures will still be well above normal for the holiday. In the Southeast, Friday will likely be a repeat of Thursday.
Since temperatures will be so high during the overnight hours on Thursday, record highs for Christmas day may be set before dawn in a number of locations.
According to AccuWeather Meteorologist Ed Vallee, the return of persistent cold will not be the theme for the remainder of 2015.
"The extreme warmth of late will certainly be muted after Christmas Day, but above-average temperatures continuing through the end of the month will set the stage for December monthly temperature records to be broken in some areas of the East," he said.

 
William Smith ·
To all the climate change alarmists,you've been caught redhanded when it was exposed,about 5-10 years ago,through emails,that many "scientific" organizations that you all rely on for your climate change "proof", like NOAA, were fudging the temperature data to support the supposed "settled science" (Remember Climate-gate anyone?). Also,you were exposed when the AlGore carbon credits were exposed for the fraud that they are as well as all the crony capitalist green energy companies like Solyndra were "on the dole" and getting kick-backs from the government. All this climate change nonsense isn't about "saving the planet", but lining the pockets and greasing the wheels for these crony capitalist green energy (solar-panel, wind-turbine, wind-farm), companies. Funny how you never hear the climate alarmists talk about that,but how evil all other companies and industries like the oil industry are yet their crony capitalist buddies are exempt from said criticism.
Casey Kerkhoff ·
Palm trees in the back yard.. in my life time... what is there not too like ????
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Rob Bennett ·
Works at The White House

Who's record? What record? The earth acording to these same folks has been around for MILLIONS AND MILLIONS Of YEARS. So for the past hundred, some freeking record is broke? STOP IT WITH THIS FOOLISHNESS..
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Dennis McKinney
Be sure to wear sunscreen!
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Gary Coon ·

This is called local warming. It is not global. Here in northern Californis it's just as cold as it always is in December.
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Michael Jones ·

It's all that hot air blowing out of Washington from El Loco
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Gary Johnson ·

When I was growing up in Minnesota, late 50's - 60's, how many conversations I would listen to between my relatives, where " Really warm winter this year" or "can you believe all the snow" or "can't believe no rain this spring" "At least ya got your health" LOL
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Ted Cooke ·

The daily record will still not be as high as monthly highs, and even if they meet them 1) we're talking about temperature records from all different kinds of dates, even into the 1800's when there was still a "mini" ice age, and 2) The Roman and Viking era temperature spikes notwithstanding (three or four degress on average warmer than today) we are still warming up from a big ice age, so we would expect warmer temperatures. The reall shocker is no warming at all in the past two decades according to the ~only~ temperature reading method which is double checked - sattelite data (double checked by weather baloons).
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Darby Roach ·
Works at Writer

An apparent lull in the recent rate of global warming that has been widely accepted as fact is actually an artifact arising from faulty statistical methods, an interdisciplinary team of Stanford scientists says.

The study, titled "Debunking the climate hiatus" and published online this week in the journal Climatic Change, is a comprehensive assessment of the purported slowdown, or hiatus, of global warming.

"We translated the various scientific claims and assertions that have been made about the hiatus and tested to see whether they stand up to rigorous statistical scrutiny," said study lead...See More
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Troy Day ·

Records are suppose to be broken every 100 years or more, not every ten. Seems to be the trend. But don't panic. The "Stones" will tour again!
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Bradlee TheDawg ·

HEY it's 'supposed' not suppose. Get a grip... on GRAMMAR !! Haha just kidding - if it stays like this you won't have to worry.
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Doug Maenpaa ·

I cant wait to start paying my "carbon taxes" to the Rockefellers, that will reverse this !!
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Richard Stevenson
Do you remember the days, when the weather wasn't 'political'? You know, like when it was just 'the weather'?
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Diane Eck
I hope we have way below normal temps all summer.
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Wayne Wonder ·

love "global" warming!
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Mike Jones ·

Woo Hoo! A little fishing @ Amelia Island tomorrow. At 5am it will be 72 and by 2pm 80 degrees
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Barry Lauster
More climate change bs. Its been warmer than this before folks nothing to see here.
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Jonny Fath ·

No, see it hasn't been warmer than this. That's why the sub header said record breaking.

Fun fact, 99% of the scientific community thinks climate change is real and on 51% of the public agrees. Thanks for your science-less rabble, Barry
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Randy Rentsch
Jonny Fath- selective data there Little Johnny!
Hey John Boy, the Sun controls the Earth's climate, always has; always will. Think for yourself for a change
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Mark Eaves ·

Jonny Fath Warmest years were in the 1930's creating the dustbowls and mass exodus to california.
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John Perram
No mention of th El Nino that is the cause of all this.
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James DeMeo
While the East Coast is warm, on the West Coast -- actually everyplace west of the Rockies -- we have excellent snows, first time in three years of winter drought, and blistering cold temps in the forecast starting tomorrow and lasting out for weeks, with the colder months of Jan-Feb lying ahead. In the same last three years, the East Coast got those blistering cold temps, and piles of snow. So, a reversal of fortunes. Our drought is now seriously reduced, and the East gets a relief from the cold waves... everyone should be happy! But of course, the warmer Nazis will preach more gloom and doom, and proclaim weather to be climate when it suits them, and vice versa.
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Diane Eck
Send the cold this way. I hate warm weather.
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David Colantuono ·
Works at Unemployed

Why rub it in and make me feel worse than I already do, James? Not everyone is happy about the "relief from the cold waves". Let it be warm in Spring and Summer. But, leave it out of Autumn and Winter. Then, I'll be happier...at least, compared to how I'm feeling now.

The best way to make everyone happy (except for warm weather lovers who want warm weather all year round) is for the Jet Stream to dip down South and become more zonal, stretching from Southern California East to Florida. North of the Jet Stream should be typical cold and snowy weather. South of the Jet Stream should be warm for the warm weather lovers.
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Danny Grimm
"Any hopes of a 'white Christmas' that the weekend chill brought will be dashed in the eastern United States..." Well that should be welcome news to the BLM racists LOL.
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Barbara Rowbotham Wilcox ·

Sorry climate changers but I remember wearing T shirts to play with my new Christmas toys many times over the years in Shreveport LA.
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Jonny Fath ·

Awesome so you're going to pick your "memory" over statistics dating back to the 1800s. Thanks for that.
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Mark Eaves ·

Jonny Fath Its better than taking 'statistics' from a grown man wearing a Star Wars helmet......
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Keyser Soze ·

Jonny Fath using 150 years of data to conclude there is climate change is same as using 10 seconds of night time to conclude it is always dark, irrisponsible scientifically. Now, we actually have real scientists that use data compiled from different forms of archeology that show the earth has experienced many warming and cooling periods, which means when tempratures are not maintaining , they are either lowering or raising. Oh news Bullten - humans were not around for 98% of the time these were happening.
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Paul Engemann
OH DEAR LORD! I need to build my bunker! The world is ending! We'll never survive! eeeeeeeeeeeeek!
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Bruno Skopinich ·

This is Great News for the Climate Changers!
We will be Burning Less Carbon Fuel to stay warm during these winter days!

They should be happy! Yet they still complain????
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Doug Schexnayder ·

NOTHING TO DO W/HUMAN ACTIVITY!
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Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 me...See More
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Daryl Spindler ·

OH THE HUMANITY!!!
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Sid Courtney ·

Yada,yada, yada. You guys lost all credibility years ago with your screeching too cold, then too hot and all the fudged numbers and out right fraud. Give it a rest and enjoy the weather. Sheesh!
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Kelly Nicholson
WHEN A CANADA BLAST HITS THE CRAP HEAD ON?..IT WILL BE BLIZARD CONDITIONS...STOP TALKING ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING AND TAXING THE SH'T OUT OF PEOPLE...WORRY ABOUT THE NEXT FRONT..YOU DONT NEED TO PAY TAXES TO BE PREPARED!
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James DeMeo
Sorry, they are out stocking up on sun-tan oil, beach blankets and water skis. No money left for snow plows, fuel oil storage or other useless extravagance.
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Jon Gates ·

Yes, the climate is changing. However, here we have a weekend forecast of highs in the low 30s;/upper 20s, lows in the single digits, and snow (maybe) on Christmas Day. In other words, not much new and different.
Of course, that means absolutley nothing in the greater scheme of things, just like the warm weather in the Northeast means nothing!
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Darby Roach ·
Works at Writer

It means it's never been this warm in those places this time of year. Funny how climate science predicts these things then they come true.
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Todd Jordan ·

This weather means absolutely noting. Look at the years and the records.
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Darby Roach ·
Works at Writer

“CO2 concentrations haven't been this high in millions of years,” NASA’s Erika Podest, a carbon and water research scientist, said—a common refrain among the scientists who researched or observed the event.

“This event is a milestone on a road to unprecedented climate change for the human race, Dr. Ed Hawkins, a climatologist at the University of Reading, told the Guardian. “The last time the Earth had this much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was more than a million years ago, when modern humans hadn’t even evolved yet.” The environmentalist Bill McKibben echoed the sentiment, too: "We're in new territory for human beings—it's been millions of years since there's been this much carbon in the atmosphere.”
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Kevin Main
now anytime there is a flucuation in temperature one year to the next they blame it on global warming.. lol....
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Scot Shoemaker ·

LOL!! LOL!!
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Rik Myslewski ·

Kevin Main — Uh, no we don't. We look at the science behind radiative forcing, check out the temperature acceleration since the middle of the last century, map it to the increase in greenhouse gasses, check that mapping against other forcings, and say, "Yup, GHGs are pumping up global temperatures — that's incontrovertible. Yup, there's a lot of regional and temporal varaibility — equally incontrovertible. And yup, there's one hell of a lot of FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) being sown by those who stand to lose in a move from 'hunter-gatherer' extractive energy to a more managed, sustain able energy system. Yup, we've got a lot of work to do — and those who refuse to do it had better grow a pair before this clear, physics-based increase in troposdpheric, surface, and ocean temperature increase bits us all in the butt."

That's simplistic, of course, but I think you get the idea ...
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Vielsa Harding
Rik Myslewski Rik, do yourself a favor a truly inform yourself in 4.5 minutes. Be honest w yourself and inform your family and friends. Merry Christmas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkdbSxyXftc
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Bee Ginning
make sure you all pay your Gore approved carbon credits!
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Doug Maenpaa ·

When you fly around in your gas-guzzling airplane, these guys smugly state that "its offset" ! Do as I say, not as I do. Thats you, Al Gore.
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Rik Myslewski ·

I find it quite ironic that when it's cold in the East, the climate-change contrarians cheer Sen. James Inhofe for tossin a snowball in the Capitol, but when it's warm, they say, "Hey, it's not climate change, it's weather variability!"
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Montford Greenwood
I guess retards like yourself have no idea about weather cycles?
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Rik Myslewski ·

Montford Greenword - Why is it that climate contrarians have a marked tendency for personal ad hominem insults? Interesting ...
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Montford Greenwood
Rik Myslewski I personally don't find you leftists to be worth much more than that.
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Neil Christensen ·

tap tap tap. Is this thing on? There are other parts of the country. I love the east coast, however, I am in Wyoming right now which is....well....a larger land mass and um, it is NOT warm. I repeat. NOT warm. It is in fact cold. My point is not to prove or disprove "global warming" but ya kind of have a small sample size there.
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K Real Booya
Before all of you Al Gore lovers start saying "I told you so", keep in mind that this is only back east. In the west, we have been hit by record snowfall.
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Darby Roach ·
Works at Writer

I love how climate deniers use extreme weather events to disprove the existence of extreme wether events.
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Matt Hunter
Darby Roach Or how climate change supporters don't even understand their own "science" and think the 1-2 degrees in termperature increases they are predicting are now manifest in 20 degree temperature anomolies. These patterns this year have already been predicted, and have nothing to do with climate change except in the minds of those who think evey warm day is proof of it.
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Dan Culton
Darby Roach ..... If this isn't about El Nino but about the warming of the planet because of AGW.... I say we need more "weather" just like this.

Oh by the way..... warm and wet weather ,because of El Nino, has been the prediction for this winter for several months. I knew then that the alarmist, like yourself, would find a way to turn a natural warming eveny (El Nino) into "it was caused by AGW......" . I am shocked that I was right... well.... not really.
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Rik Myslewski ·

Matt Hunter — Uh, we're not "climate change supporters," we're folks who look at the settled science proving radiative forcing (long-wave radiation absorption and re-radiation by large and active molecules such as CO2, CH4, NO2, and others), and accept the measurable, testable, reprodcible science.
We don't "support" cliate change. We understand it.
Some of us are even contributing to it: carefully, incrementally, honestly, unbiasedly (okay, that's not a word ...), and without any hint of political bias. As the wonderful T-shirt says, "Science. It works, bitches." (http://bit.ly/1YCqYck)
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Rik Myslewski ·

And, yeah, I'm a more-than-crappy typist ...
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Matt Hunter
Rik Myslewski You've made no actual facts based arguement to refute anything I've said, and repeating a factually incorrect claim that it is a settled science is not convincing either and won't make it true no matter how many times you regurgitate it. It's only settled for those who prefer to have others think for them, or have an agenda, because that's the great thing about science, it's not settled, ever, it's always objective and open to facts and new observations, and there are plenty of contradictory facts and arguements that dispute and refute climate change theory. And many who convince...See More
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Peter Clark ·

Rik Myslewski What is it you understand? Scientific studies have shown that atmospheric Carbon Dioxide in past eras reached concentrations that were 20 times higher than the current concentration. Recent investigations have shown that the current change of climate is part of a larger cycle known as climatic lowstand phase which precedes a sequential warming period known as transgression phase. The purpose of this evaluation is to demonstrate that the Earth is actually cooling, in the context of the total geological timescale, and that the current change is equivalent to a serial climate phase ...See More
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Darby Roach ·
Works at Writer

Matt Hunter You know this because you are a climate scientist?
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Darby Roach ·
Works at Writer

Dan Culton Never mind that high temperature reecords are being broken. You really believe that it has nothing to do with increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere? Really?
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Mickey Brennar ·

think you better recheck some of your data. Back in the late 70's we had 80 degrees in mass, we was wearing sleeveless dresses & riding our bikes on christmas day! Go check some paper data cause your computer data stinks.
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Marty Kontos ·

Big bad El Niño is causing this warmth Global Warming enthusiasts. It is an absolute blessing for the parched West. Reservoirs are filling and ski resorts can finally have a profitable season..
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Steven Monty
Hurray for Global warming!!!
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Marc Dantonio
I am all for Global Warming... After all, we did not have a whole lot to do with it..... Al Gore and his merry band of idiots were completely discredited with REAL data as opposed to cherry picked data...
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Rik Myslewski ·

You are, of course, completely and utterly incorrect. Pleasze cite your source (and no, the Heartland Institute doesn't count — stick to perr-reviewed, well-vetted scientific journals). Thanks ...
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Dan Culton
Rik Myslewski ....... check out the last three actual warm climate episodes (real global warming), Medieval, Roman, and the Miocene. These were all wonderful for living creatures. You climate alarmist never get it. Its the global cooling periods (ice ages) that are the killers not the warm periods.

If you want to worry about something worry about this. During the NEXT ice age, New York City will be under a mile of ice with glaciation covering the north half of Missouri and there is absolutely nothing human beings can do about it.

The climate of the third rock from the sun (Earth) is g...See More
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Courtney Carrier ·

Love it love it love it!!! If you've lived in Ohio your whole life, who needs a white Christmas?? Shopping is easier, driving home is easier, packing is easier... best and safest Christmas is 5 years, I think. Merry Christmas everyone!!
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Liz Kowalsky
i thought el nino was gonna put this crappy warmth in in pnw and not here
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Grant McGuire ·

If anyone wants a laugh, read the Farmer's Almanac Dec 2015 forecast...
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Diane Eck
That publication is a joke.
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Cory Morrison ·

Yet people seem to always think it is extremely accurate.
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William Smith ·

It's funny because the record for December 24 was set last year at 56 degrees and everyone was complaining then about there being no white Christmas and no winter this year,and then look what happened? I bet some were saying that in Boston and then they got 10 FEET of snow last winter,so let's just calm down and wait for this winter to play out before we start saying that winter's canceled or 2016 will be the "Year without a Winter", and all that.
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William Smith ·

Yeah,let's just calm down out there folks! Winter has only just started and already there's people out there saying "There's going to be no winter this year", and "Winter's been canceled". Guess what,today's only the second day of winter and winter is 90-something days long,like the rest of the seasons.Judging this winter to be "canceled", because of record temps in late December is like saying that a football game is over because a team is up 14-0 midway through the first quarter or a baseball game is over because it's 3-0 after one inning. Let's just calm down and not jump the gun because of record warmth in late December. I'd like to see where these same people calling off winter for this year because of 60's and 70's for tomorrow will be when it's 5 degrees and there's 2 feet of snow on their front-yard 3-5 weeks from now.
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Mary Wright Pippert ·

It going to be about the same here. As I recall last year everyone was complaining about the cold.
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JR Quarrels ·

It's all the hot exhaut air coming out of D.C.!
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William Sidis ·

"Records in the major cities of the Eastern states date back to the middle 1800s" ... The earth is 4.5+ billion years old so not even a dot on the earth's timeline. Calm down all you global warming, doomsday lemmings. It's nature being nature.
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Nancy Johnson
Everyone left D.C. for the holidays and on their way out they exhaled.
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Carmelita Rochefort ·

It's called weather.......take your foot off the fear pedal. Where I live the high will be 33 the low 7....thats 12 degrees cooler than average.
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Michelle O'Donnell ·

we deserve this after those awful blizzards we got one after the other & then had the most cold Winter last season. So thank you weather for not being our enemy so far lol
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Jim Temple
Of course this is happening because the climate change nuts, this week, said Carbon Fuels were responsible for Global Cooling.
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Glen Brown ·
Works at Happily Retired

Wondeful and Climate Change has nothing to do with it.
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Patrick Murphy
Great, this news will bring out all the "global warming" wingnuts. Did Odummy really blame "global warming" for world terrorism?
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Carol Rogers
No it isn't this is bull shit in the 1970's we had warm Christmas in fact I remember we had a real tree back then and the needles were falling off of it. You didn't need a winter coat. Last Christmas it rained and this year it is raining proves nothing.
Darby Roach ·
Works at Writer

Right because heat melting ice is just an hypothesis.
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Keyser Soze ·

Darby Roach ? does that mean something?
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Rene' Altizer McCartney ·

A month from now the news will be flooded with stories about the ice, snow, chaos and school closures due to the cold, paralyzing temperatures across the Midwest & East.
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Christopher Perrien ·

Yep, when winter hits it is going to hit hard.
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Jeff Bumgardner ·

AWESOME! Gas a little cheaper and my heating bill gets a break. Now if Obozo would just shut up and go away. His blaming of terrorism on "Global Warming" was over the top, even for this fool.
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Raymond Zink ·

Algore must be out of the country.
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Larry Green ·

This is BS I can remember in the 1980 it was in the 80es. How can people belive this BS
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Krys Miley
Yes the climate changes. The changes are very well defined in Spring, Summer, Autum, and winter.
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Patrick Murphy
But somehow liberals forgot this.
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Darby Roach ·
Works at Writer

You're talking about weather not climate.
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Keyser Soze ·

Darby Roach they both change, just one faster than the other.
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Krys Miley
Well it is currently snowing here in Idaho.
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Linda Sue Gooding ·

"Bite me"-lol. Just kidding. But my "rellies" in Australia expect us to have a White Christmas & I'd like another one before I hit the end of my "Bucket List." Enjoy the mai
esty & silent beautiful that always comes with a special snow. Merry Christmas.
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Franscin Schuring ·

Yes and we have had snow since the middle of November. Running out of places to put it already... smile emoticon
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Darby Roach ·
Works at Writer

Krys, and I just had lunch so there's no world hunger.
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Keyser Soze ·

Darby Roach that's sort of clever, but irrelavent to the conversation on climate Change
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Ron Thornton
Warmest on record, eh? Well, that should mean that we should have record highs all over the place, east of the Mississippi on Thursday. If not, then another red flag for those who can still observe and come to their own conclusions.
Carl Curmudgeon
Chestnuts roasting on a sidewalk...
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Steve Adams ·

Enjoy the regional weather when it's favorable, and when you can. Don't worry, it will change. Weather does that. (So has the climate over hundreds and thousands of years.)
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Patrick Murphy
But for some reason liberals fogot this.
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Justin Witham ·

Patrick Murphy No, they haven't. No liberal denies that the climate naturally changes. It's the SPEED at which it's changing that's the problem. It's supposed to change over hundreds and thousands of years, not a few decades like it is now.

And, side note...you can't use one single year to prove or disprove a climatic phenomenon that happens over many years...so both the people that blame global warming in warm winters and the people who say "so much for global warming!" in cold winters are misguided. You have to look at the big picture.
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Joseph Howard
My 'climate change' friends say that the sometimes warm, sometimes much colder winters are proof of and caused by....you guessed it...Climate Change! I mention all the dinosaur fossils found in Canada, a place once tropical and now extremely cold. How did that climate change, I ask? Without human intervention? I get the stock reply-"We are experiencing man-made climate change. The scientific community is in agreement. This has never occurred before, change this rapid and this extreme." -- It's a form of mass insanity- mass delusion. These mass hysterias have occurred throughout human history. Some in the Medieval Period are well-documented. Climate change is not an environmental problem-- it's a psychological problem. Like many delusional people, these modern day delusionists believe their delusions are real.
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Rolaine King
Both science and religion take faith (and some of us just aren't buying the secularist/humanist/atheist/agnostic/godless marxists' cabal opinion?)
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Ron Thornton
If they are in such agreement, why are those who do not advocate that there is man-made climate change suffer censure, censorship, face being ostracized, and even the threat of legal action being taken against them? For the first time since the Galileo Affair, we have science that is "settled?" Something is amiss.
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Mark Cramblit
It's a psychological problem, a mental illness. Al Gore and his ilk are the traveling patent medicine men, selling you a cure you don't need for a problem you don't have.
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Patrick Murphy
There it is in a nutshell.
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George Blair ·

Man I love Global Warming. Or Climate Change. Or whatever.
Krys Miley
Yep. They are called seasons.
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James Bruno
"Warmest Christmas Eve on record to unfold across eastern US" ...Well, what else am i gonna say ;? Thats cool? Tics in NY lasted longer this year Ithaca. It is warm..But i noticed more respritory type flem .Worried..? No..Alert..? yes..Lots of garlic , Beer, and Buffalo Wild Wings..Blazin
Gary Beauchamp ·

I am a big skeptic on the global warming religion. I doubt that even with computer models we can accurately predict the cilmate five years from now, let alone 75. I also doubt (forgive my heresy) that if warming is happening that man's activities are the controling factor. I also question whether the predeicted effects are catastrophic as predicted. Global cooling would be a much more serious concen as it would portend shorter growing seasons, less land in climates suitable for farming, and greater energy requirements. This crisis has become an excuse for greater government control worldwide over people's lives with big money in the form of subsidies for "green" energy which is a marginal solution with existing technology.
Tahira Faune Alford
According to the below article, "the fed support for oil and gas is 5 x's that of renewables". : http://www.greentechmedia.com/.../the-real-deal-on-u.s...
The IMF estimates that for 2015 the economic cost of energy subsidies worldwide will amount to US$5.3 trillion, or US$10 million every minute.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies, http://www.taxpayer.net/.../Understanding%20Oil%20%20Gas...
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Marlon Brandy ·

Those people must be grateful. The last few years were record cold and snow.
James Bruno
NY upstate Sayacuse area Very cold..Way cold for NY ..Unless you are way up..Way up than its the norm..But -15F sustained was cold..
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Rob Clary ·

And this is the very reason I am a supporter of global warming.
Mild winters mean less snow to shovel!
Russell Spreeman ·

And less fossil fuel to burn to keep warm.
I lived in Vermont one winter, the average temperature overall for the month of December was 6 (six) degrees. That sucked.
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Rob Clary ·

Russell Spreeman - right!
We need to join with all Americans and commit to further consumption which will lead to increased global warming.

The orphans and widows of Vermont need our help~!
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Aw Henderson
Nothing new about these temperature ranges.
The highest temperature for a Christmas day in Houston was 82F (1964)...the lowest was 11F (1983)
Interesting what El Nino can do...!
Kevin Pete
I bet the heating oil industry and natural gas providers are upset do to lost revenue.
Raleigh Wood ·

What we need is to pay more taxes !
Dale Shoop ·

I am glad that Mother Nature gave mankind the technology to extract and responsibly burn off all these fossil fuels. They would be oozing out of the ground everywhere, and this planet wouldn't be habitable. Thanks to Colonel Drake, Oil Creek in PA is now flourishing.
David Beemer ·

Boston - Last year record snow. This year lots of rain and record highs.

Thinking you're the generation to witness climate shift from post glacial or interglacial to "warm" is akin to believing you will witness the 2nd coming. What are the odds? Even with man's considerable efforts we have only increased C02 by 1 in 10,000 in the atmosphere on whole.

Hard to believe the roar associated with a 1 in 10,000 increase in something that not only occurs naturally but is essential to all life on land.

Hang in there folks, the only thing that you can count on is change.

PS I'm by far more worried about serious on going air and water pollution.
Jeffrey L. Bass ·

I'm not convinced that methane will not play a role in the next few decades on climatic changes, and seems like the most northern latitudes are experiencing weather anomolies that are way out of the norm. As for the air pollution, seems like China and India are going to have a competition to get the worst air quality - in some cases probably cutting 10-15 years off the average lifespan. That seems a more immediate and challenging issue than climate change, in that we see the effects already playing out in those countries (increased COPD, cancer, etc).
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John Smith
EXCELLENT ... let's hope this warming trend continues. Millions and millions saved in snow removal costs. Millions less gallons of fossil fuels used to heat homes and run plow trucks and warming cars. Millions of pounds less salt contaminating the environment. Hundreds fewer homes burned to the ground in attempts to heat them with unsafe appliances. Fewer people freezing to death. Tens of thousands fewer car accidents that necessitate resources to fix. Tens of thousands fewer heart attacks shoveling snow. Tens of thousands fewer people dying and being injured in ice and snow related falls.

Yeah, this warm weather is just horrible isn't it.
Joseph Howard
Here comes the renewed moaning and whining about global warming (sigh).
Cameron Kittrell ·

Yup. Hotter than normal winter: man-made climate change. Colder than normal winter: man-made climate change. Normal winter: man-made climate change. More Atlantic hurricanes than normal: man-made climate change. Less Atlantic hurricanes than normal: man-made climate change. Car starts: man-made climate change. Car does not start: man-made climate change. The list can go forever, and the climate change apologists don't even realize that they keep lying to themselves and the rest of us.
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Shirley Galbrecht
Many of you probably have walk-in-closets but that's not me. I still gather up my winter clothes and put them in the attic for summer and vice versa. So far, no need to take my winter clothes down. I use to always bring them out in the middle of Oct. but over the years, they come out later and later. I find in general that I need fewer and fewer cold weather clothes as the years pass. I'm in central NC. I've decided a few sweaters to layer with is about all I need these days and a light weight coat. I live in a state that's always been on the border between the warm South and the cold North. We are definitely (with a few exceptions) like the warm South these days.
Marlon Brandy ·

I'll bet you're happier than last year.
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Jared Lenz
well then....in that case they have my permission (not that these despots are asking) to implement world government rule, usurp my remaining rights, persecute non conforming scientific opinions and continue on with their revisioist re-writing of history. Heil Cobra, heil Specter.
George Wasickanin ·

The last two winters in Western New York were bruttal, this is a welcome reprieve.
Cory Morrison ·

I am in Southern Ontario near Toronto, and I fully agree!
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Neven Prvinic ·

From Cleveland Ohio and we are all on the same page!
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Salty Skroob
I remember some 60 degree days in New England right around Christmas back in the 90's, it was an El Nino period. This is not unprecendented.
Dale Shoop ·

Thanks from Pittsburgh, all the wind mills they put up in Arizona are acting like big fans and blow the warm air up to us.
David Dineen-Porter
Weather is a myth.
Carl Curmudgeon
And 50 below zero in parts of Colorado.

Sounds a lot like winter, doesn't it?
Daniel Crescenzo
Yeah, but it was 45 at my house and I live 50 miles from Antero (location you are citing). Mountains create a phenomena called inversion. That is why Antero res clocked -51, that's why Gunnison is always frigid in the winter, and it's the same reason why hot air rises and cold air settles.
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Laura McGrogan Tomberlin ·
Works at Full time Mimi

Do you think it will still rain in the South?
Tomas Cruz
Considering last year we had record snow and a two week stretch below freezing. this is a bonus. Thanks El Nino.
George Hurlburt ·

Of course this offsets the coldest winter on record.
Shirley Galbrecht
Coldest winter where and when? Does this take into account the whole Northern hemisphere that particular year? I'm not sure what you are saying.
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Cory Morrison ·

Shirley Galbrecht I think he is referring to last winter in his particular location.
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Bill Ross ·

don't jinx it, this winter has barely started...if we can keep this warmth to march, then yes it will offset the coldest winter on record which happened in 2014 where I live (1904 was probably colder but not many weather stations were around way back then).
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Sam Huston ·

Thank God for small miracles, I am 150Km due West of Ottawa, On and it looks like I will be riding my Harley on Christmas eve.
Karen Rizzuto ·

If I wanted a warm Christmas without snow I would go to Florida. This SUCKS!
Nancy Nolan
Exactly! I hate this! I would rather a bright cold Christmas than a dreary warm one.
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Larry Justice ·

Totally yeah!
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Matthew White
I agree Karen that it sucks. smile emoticon No snow yet where i am, we just had flurries but it didn't stick around.
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Laquisha Reynolds
ISIS prefers warmer weather...nice
Laquisha Reynolds
Its still raining here in Central Calif...viva el nino...Congrats to the east coast for some nice california weather
Laquisha Reynolds
Thank you Gesus ...generally there are headlines about the horrors of winter snow storms..now they have nice California weather for free...sweet
Joseph Graziose
Wow! This is some forum going on! And quite a bit of pushed buttons among those who are apprehensive about our of balanced weather conditions. Despite my attempt to use levity, I have to even include myself among you. My attempt at hyperbole went over like a lead balloon with Doug--yes I know people navigate well in underpopulated N. Dakota in wintry precip, but you have to see my Long Island if 3 flakes fall- it is Armageddon, and it is the 1st alarmist story on the 11 0'clock news the day before. And David, yes, I was using artistic license to say ALL NY'ers have their hearts in Ft. Lauderda...See More
Shirley Galbrecht
I've been reading through the posts and I think people tend to forget that climate change caused by global warming is about extremes. The scales seem to be permanently out of balance and weather patterns are over the place. I sincerely wish that the odd weather that I've been noticing since the late 80's didn't bother me. You folks who can rationalize it are having a good time, for now. Unfortunately for me, I know something is very wrong and I fear for all our children and grandchildren.
Robert Savage Niebrzydowski ·

Lol
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Shirley Galbrecht
Robert Savage Niebrzydowski Sad for you and yours.
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Paul Drapiewski ·

You are right about "late 80s". It was cold in the 60s and 70s and very cold between 1981 and 1986. I swear it was November of 1986 that it changed. We had a very warm winter, and while we have had some very cold spells since, (VERY cold in fact), in general, it has been really warm since that very date. Really seems like a gear shifted then.
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James Moro
I'm now thinking that this winter here in the northeast is going to be one of the mildest, and least snowiest ever, if there's a winter this year, i thinking it will hit 70 degrees by early March, and we'll be in spring by mid March, unlike last year which didn't arrive until the middle of April. I'm thinking next summer will be a very hot summer with many days above 90 even a couple of days hitting at least 100.
Cory Morrison ·

I disagree that winter is cancelled this year. However, I do agree that next summer could be hot in the East (Hottest since 2012 in many areas) especially if a La Nina tries to develop like JB is predicting.
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David Colantuono ·
Works at Unemployed

If next Summer gets that hot, pray very hard that I am able to survive it. My asthma may not go so well with that kind of heat.
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Bill Ross ·

I hope you are right...that would certainly be poetic justice, after having summer completely taken away from us in 2014, and sub-par summers in 2013 and 2015.
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Jeffrey L. Bass ·

Last February was awful here at the beach, and March was bitter cold, I would love a St. Patty's day in the mid 60's again, like a few years back. Even last year we didn't get winter in full swing until late January.
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David Colantuono ·
Works at Unemployed

Although I agree to a point how relocating to a different place if one doesn't like where they live is not as easy as some make it look (consider this before telling me to move North when I complain about warm weather), I disagree that "our hearts are in Fort Lauderdale". Warm weather fans may have their hearts in Fort Lauderdale and other warm places in the South, but us cold weather fans have our hearts in much colder places where snow and cold is normal during this time of year.

New Jersey used to be in a temperate zone up until recently. It's normal for it to be warm when it's Spring an...See More
Deanne L. McKimmey ·

You are MY KIND OF PERSON, AND YOU ARE TOTALLY RIGHT!!!
SEVENTY FIVE ON CHRISTMAS DAY, disgusts me!
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David Colantuono ·
Works at Unemployed

Deanne L. McKimmey And, after a break this past weekend and Monday, I've got the air conditioner back on again. It will stay on until it gets cold enough not to need it.
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Bill Ross ·

here's what happened in 2014:
Coldest Winter since 1904 (December through March)
Cold in Spring (April through July)
No Summer (------)
Cool in Autumn (August to early November)
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Joseph Graziose
Hi, Pete. I gotta go with Cory on the financial/family part. BTW, do have an idea what the population of Fla. would be like if just every New Yorker who hates winter were to magically relocate there? With the exception of pizza, bagels and the Met, our hearts are in Fort Lauderdale from the Eastern Standaard Time change until May.
Pete Johnston ·

This El Niño event is definitely unprecedented with the sheer depth and magnitude of the warmth. In terms of the Eastern Pacific waters, they are saying that an El Niño of this size and intensity has never been measured before. I would not be surprised if this ends up being a year without winter and, in the end, if they say this is something of a once in 500 or 1000 year event. I miss the winter weather here in Southeast Pennsylvania. Sure, it's unpleasant and disruptive at times but that's what makes the seasons different. If you live in the Northeast and don't like winter, move to Florida.
Jeffrey L. Bass ·

or at least South Carolina - haha. I don't mind a winter break, last February at Rehoboth had temps comparable to the upper Midwest - yuck.
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Cory Morrison ·

Just do not complain when the heat comes in the summer, because that is what makes summer different too.

Also, do you realize how mind-blowing last February was in terms of the magnitude and persistency of the cold, like Wayne Langhuber said earlier, over FIFTEEN degrees below normal in some cases (Even many people who do winter sports thought it was too severely cold)? And that some people simply do not have much of a choice to live where they are for family or financial reasons? I can accept my area's climate norms, which have highs around 30F, with maybe some 20s and 40s mixed in during the winter (Cold enough for skiing in most cases), but the persistent below 0F rubbish from recent winters is what is good-for-nothing.
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Cory Morrison ·

Also a Western Trough=Eastern Ridge would be relatively helpful for CA's drought compared to the dreaded opposite from the last few years.
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Sharon McCray ·

Like everything in nature there is a time that we should have winter weather and there's a time we should have summer things are so out of sorts. Let it snow let it snow let it snow for Christmas
Bill Ross ·

2014 had no summer and also had the coldest winter in over 100 years so the current warmth is a way of nature getting even.
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Françoise Labelle ·

Bill Ross
In the east of north america. Not globally.
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Cory Morrison ·

Françoise Labelle he is referring to the Great Lakes region specifically.
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Bill Ross ·

Françoise Labelle same goes for this December's warmth...eastern north america, not globally. the west is colder than normal for a change, as are Alaska and parts of the ARctic region near greenland.
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Jeff Cunningham ·

Bill Ross , globally, December is shaping up as one of the warmest ever. I can assure you that Florida had it's usual miserably hot summer in 2014.
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Karen Rizzuto ·

Agreed! I hate any kind of unseasonable weather but especially when it's warmer than normal
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Cory Morrison ·

Jeff Cunningham up here in the Great Lakes, the summer of 2014 was much cooler than normal (Especially between mid-July and mid-August), and the Toronto area had one of its top 10 coldest July-August combos in the last 100 years.

This past summer in the GL, was still slightly on the cool side, but nowhere near being one of the top coldest.
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Bill Ross ·

Jeff Cunningham yes and I am glad the place where I live is FINALLY sharing in that warmth. when I retire in a few years, we should trade homes. Although I am really looking for something in Honolulu.
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Bill Ross ·

Karen Rizzuto but did you complain much last February?
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Michael McConnell ·

I can't stand the cold. We are supposed to be 68. I hope we hit 75.
Cory Morrison ·

My area is supposed to hit 57F on XMAS Eve, but it would be awesome if it gets above 60F!
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Craig Campbell ·

Cory Morrison Global warming is no joke.
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Bill Ross ·

Craig Campbell winter of 2014 was no joke either, the COLDEST in over 100 years where I live, and Feb 2015 the coldest Feb in over 100 years. This December is 10 degrees above normal, but last Feb was 16 degrees BELOW normal. So the current warmth is a much smaller anomaly in comparison, and is a way of nature getting even. plus the high arctic is colder compared to previous years so that will help the polar bears. and the west is finally getting much needed precipitation. so win win win across the board.
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Françoise Labelle ·

Bill Ross
Globally false.
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Richard James
Craig Campbell this is weather, weather is science, global warming is a money grab. Follow it if you're smart enough.
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Bill Ross ·

Françoise Labelle I'm just talking about the area where I live, not the whole planet. I'm not denying global warming, I would just like the area where I live to participate.
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Craig Campbell ·

Richard James get your head out behind the rock. Warmest December ever in the Northern plains. I'm a republican who cares about this planet. The dye is cast unless we change immediately
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Neven Prvinic ·

Cory Morrison if you get enough sun and manage to stay dry up there I think you may get to 60F or over. I hope you do because that means that we will get at least that too, even higher..see if we can get 70 here? Now that I doubt, but 65 is very possible.
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Anthea Strezze ·

Unfortunately, the unseasonable warmth is making the tick populations unusually active. I personally know two people who needed to go on Doxycycline for Lyme-infected tick bites this month, in CT and MA, and I'm sure there are many more. We used to get a break from worrying about ticks over the winter.
Johnny Ola ·

And fleas as well. Have you watched the republican debates? Fleas are out of control!
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Sean Rubin ·

Johnny Ola no but I watched the Democratic debate and saw the cockraoches.
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Shirley Galbrecht
It's something to joke about until YOU are struck with a serious tick disease or other disease carried by insects. Then it gets serious.
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Bill Ross ·

I need that antibiotic when I get a sinus infection, which is caused by the excessive cold.
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Jo Peterson
I want 80 degrees.
Cody Grimaldi ·

I live in New Hampshire. I'll take it anyday.
Joseph Graziose
To answer David's question about why people are preferring this warmth to the cold and snow these days--- it is in one word-overpopulation--and the exponentially difficult manner to get around in frozen precip., in our over busy, out of balance world---we are no longer a Norman Rockwell society, David!
Sharon McCray ·

Thank goodness for that, don't want to be a normal Rockwell family but would love to have some cold weather for Christmas
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Doug Olenick
Over population? Hard to get around in the snow. It's not hard to get around in the snow and ice if you are properly prepared. Granted, when it gets icy in Dallas that's an issue, but the entire northern part of the country manages to do OK all winter long despite the snow.
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Jeffrey L. Bass ·

I would agree with Joseph, the majority of the world population lives in warmer areas of the world. Canada, with a massive land area, only has about 10% of the population of the United States. Even the majority of the population of the US tends to live in the more temperate areas. Living in cold areas just requires far more resources and effort than warmer climes.
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William Smith ·

I am highly skeptical of this,though,because so many times when they forecast these temperatures to be so high,they tend to end up short of the mark. I can't tell you how many times they'd forecast it to be 70 degrees especially this time of year and it ends up being 65 degrees,or when they forecast 100+ in the summer and it's only 92 or 93 degrees (which is pretty hot in and of itself,mind you).It's the same,sometimes with rainfall and snowfall predictions (most notably when we were supposed to get 3 feet of snow but only got 8 or 9 inches last January 27),as well.Not that it's not going to be super-warm if it's 65 degrees that day as opposed to 70 and I'm not saying it's not going to happen,but I'll just remain skeptical. I'll believe it when I see that thermometer hit 70 on Thursday (Christmas Eve).
William Smith ·

Though unusual,70's in December has happened here before. In 2006 or 2007,there was one day in December,early December mind you,but December nonetheless,where it was about 70 degrees and this was at like 1 or 2AM and I was sweating my ass off. I had to take my fan that I had stored up in the closet back in October down and my sheets were drenched in sweat. Then, in January of 2007,it was about 70 degrees one day as well,and that's in the middle of January that one year. I'm sure lots of people around here in the NYC area will be out in shorts on Thursday (like they were when it was 65 degrees ...See More
Ruok Twoday ·

Reading your post you are comparing recent temperatures, from year to year, during the hottest decade + on record.....Its not comparing apples to apples.
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Susan Teetsel
bout 20 years we were puttering around in short sleeves in mid dec.temp was around 68 degrees. next day we had 24" of snow and temps in the 20's. this was in nepa.
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Andrew Patterson ·

Christmas Eve will be nice and warm with a record challenging high temperature of 75 despite all that rain. Fortunately, temperatures this coming winter will be above average. In fact, I prefer rain than snow any day of the week. This will be totally thrilling.
Joseph Graziose
I never allow anyone in my life who has baseboard heating of any kind in the house, to proclaim winter is his favorite season....
Anders Updale ·

Will record warmth also continue throuout January and February 2016 for the Northeast reducing the chances for any snow storms?
Cory Morrison ·

Chances of that are quite low actually.
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Joshua Wade ·

No, February 2016 will be colder than February 2015 and March 2016 is likely to be the coldest March on record, in order for winter 2015-16 to end up as a tundra winter like the last two.
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Aaron Ginther ·

A pattern change is looking more and more likely for January.
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Paul Drapiewski ·

In Minneapolis our record for Dec. 24 is 46 and for Dec 25 is 51. Looks like we will not get near that and maybe snow for December 26. There is none now, most small lakes froze with the brief cold snap, but others are still open.
Jeffrey L. Bass ·

I'll be in Baltimore area on the Dec 24 with a forecast high of 77 - over a record high of 65 - that's pretty crazy!. Looks like Minneapolis will have more subdued highs for that period, though some areas of the East Coast may be nearly 40F over average - pretty crazy.
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Paul Drapiewski ·

Jeffrey L. Bass It is not as warm here, but December is still running 14 degrees above average, which is enormous, and a higher deviation than out East.
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Paul Drapiewski ·

Also looks like we are getting back to normal highs in the lows 20s by Sunday and beyond.
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Tom Kurmis ·

Great stuff! Those of us driving and working outdoors love it!
Eric Bailey ·

I am not a fan of this record warmth. I have never seen a December heat wave like this in my entire life.
Cory Morrison ·

2001, 1998, and 1982 had big December “heat waves“ as well.
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Anders Updale ·

I could'nt agree with you you more. I would'nt mind having a few days during December with temp highs in the 40's and low 50's top.
But no 60's or 70's!
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Ruok Twoday ·

I am 48, and have never experienced/ seen weather like this in my life here in northern NJ!...( defiently see the changes over the last 10-15 years- and what I can see on a global scale the changes). I personally, am very concerned for us, as a species, the human species tends to try to react to things, when its too late....I believe we will be in for a big surprise. As we have never experienced this before, and if history teaches us anything about past civilizations collapsing, watch out!......Humans tend to think they are bigger, and better, than the actual environment that created us. Mother nature will always win....The earth will always be here as a rock, but humans will not. the great 6th mass extinction..., created by humans. Hopefully I am wrong, but I highly doubt it....
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David Colantuono ·
Works at Unemployed

Ruok Twoday That's what I sometimes tell people...that they always wait until it's too late before they wake up and actually do something about a problem of this magnitude.
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Bill Ross ·

Ruok Twoday I am 51 and have never experienced a winter as COLD as 2014, or a February as COLD as 2015. Yet no one thought an ice age was coming. Extremes occur naturally in both directions.
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David Colantuono ·
Works at Unemployed

Bill Ross The previous two Winters...I live in New Jersey, mind you...were not the coldest I experienced. They reminded me of my childhood Winters, yes, but they still weren't the coldest. But, unlike my childhood Winters, the past two Winters didn't produce a White Christmas and their Decembers were also considerably above average, though not as bad as this December has been.
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Bill Ross ·

David Colantuono well where I live near Toronto, we've had a brown christmas every 2nd year on average....1979, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, etc.
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Bill Ross ·

David Colantuono this is well away from the city too, out in the boonies.
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Barbara Wilson-curley ·

Ruok Twoday I remember temperatures at heat wave levels before in Dec. In 1984 it reached over 70 during the week between Christmas and New Years. Sometime in the mid-90's it reached the mid 70's on or about Dec 7. In 1973 it reached 73 on New years Day. In 1965 I was living in Prov R.I. where it reached 69 on Dec 31. Rhese temps are rare, but not unheard of, at this time of the year.
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Neven Prvinic ·

Cory Morrison yes, 70's for us all of those three Decembers.
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Neven Prvinic ·

Bill Ross no one has ever experienced a February like one in 2015 here in Cleveland either, even if one is 110 years old. 16F below normal, averaged at 23F/5F (normal is 38F/23F)
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Mary Wright Pippert ·

Ruok Twoday You guys should enjoy it while it lasts. If will cold again soon enogh.
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Lynn Camron ·

I want my sun...snow sucks
Kathy Porter ·

If you want cold, head to Denver. I wish it would be warm here for Christmas.
Peter Roberts ·

It is supposed to be cold and snowy In December not warm and humid...I hate it give me snow or give me death!
Zack Hodgson ·

Agreed, can't wait until this tired old weather pattern is gone and I'd love to be graced by a cold January and February and not see any sustained warmth until Easter.
Like · Reply · 2 · Dec 21, 2015 5:07am
Bill Ross ·

Zack Hodgson wasn't february 2015 cold and snowy enough for you? If not, you need to move to Churchill Manitoba.
Like · Reply · 2 · Dec 21, 2015 12:09pm
Cory Morrison ·

Bill Ross he lives in Georgia, but I bet he must have really enjoyed February 19th-20th 2015 in his area.
Like · Reply · Dec 21, 2015 2:15pm
Julie Good ·
Works at PixGeek

I want my snow!!!!! I want my cold!
Zack Hodgson ·

Same here. I wish Nature would stop being so mean to the East.
Like · Reply · 3 · Dec 21, 2015 5:07am
Bill Ross ·

Zack Hodgson nature is giving the east a well-deserved break, after the coldest winter (2014) in over 100 years, and the coldest Febuary (2015). Its time for the west to have a winter for a change. Most ppl in the east like this weather as pay back for the previous horrible 2 winters.
Like · Reply · 2 · Dec 21, 2015 12:11pm
Cory Morrison ·

Zack Hodgson 10 months ago I kept wishing for the exact same thing, but for a different reason.
Like · Reply · 1 · Dec 21, 2015 2:22pm · Edited
David Colantuono ·
Works at Unemployed

I remember when people used to love cold and snow around this time of year. They couldn't wait for snow to fall around Christmas. Now, most people can't get enough of the abnormal Spring warmth. What happened to most people? What happened to the cold and snow lovers they used to be? It's bad enough it's incredibly warm. But, what gets me the most is that most people are milking it. They can't get enough of it.
Andrew Crossett
I consider this weather to be a preview of Hell.
Like · Reply · 3 · Dec 20, 2015 5:06pm
David Colantuono ·
Works at Unemployed

Andrew Crossett You may not be far off at this rate.
Like · Reply · 3 · Dec 20, 2015 8:11pm
Paul Drapiewski ·

I agree. Most people here in Minnesota hate the cold. I love the four seasons -Me - we 're heading up to Duluth where there is actually some snow. I am glad I won't be here to see the state turn to Kansas.
Like · Reply · Dec 20, 2015 9:46pm
William Smith ·

I also used to remember when people were hoping for a mild winter at least once in awhile so that they can maybe actually not pay sky-high heating bills every winter. People used to like actually having more money to themselves and not have to give huge sums of their hard-earned money to the heating and electricity companies at least once in awhile.I also used to remember when people used to hate having to shovel 50-something inches of snow out of their driveways every winter,as well.
Like · Reply · 3 · Dec 21, 2015 1:10am · Edited
Zack Hodgson ·

This warm pattern was fun in early November, but I've seen more than enough of it and I don't want to see any more of it until the about the 3rd week of March. Until then, any warm up needs to be 2 days or less. A cold spell like the 2nd half of January 2000 and first week of February 2000 would do me great. Andrew Crossett, it sure does feel like a preview of Hell which is also where this weather pattern needs to go straight to.
Like · Reply · 1 · Dec 21, 2015 5:16am · Edited
Andrew Crossett
Zack Hodgson Last Christmas Eve it was 55 degrees here (in upstate New York). This year it's supposed to be 66. At that rate by Christmas 2016, we will have to run the air conditioner.
Like · Reply · Dec 21, 2015 10:05am
George Greene ·
Works at TopShelf Oldies

William Smith exactly right! Heating bills are lower and driving much easier thanks to this years el nino
Like · Reply · 2 · Dec 21, 2015 10:56am
Bill Ross ·

its to make up for us not having a decent summer, or no summer at all in 2014
Like · Reply · 1 · Dec 21, 2015 12:12pm
Bill Ross ·

Andrew Crossett winter of 2014, year of no summer in 2014, and Feb 2015 were Hell for me!
Like · Reply · 1 · Dec 21, 2015 12:13pm
Bill Ross ·

Andrew Crossett I like the sound of that!
Like · Reply · Dec 21, 2015 12:14pm
David Colantuono ·
Works at Unemployed

Andrew Crossett When it warms up this week, my air conditioner is going back on. I've had a brief break this weekend and, so far, today, without needing it.
Like · Reply · Dec 21, 2015 12:28pm
Karen Rizzuto ·

Some are still here! I am HATING these record-high temperatures. Christmas time is supposed to be COLD and it's even better with a little snow. I get very cranky when it's abnormally warm lol
Like · Reply · 1 · Dec 22, 2015 11:19am
Andrew R. McCloskey
What people like or hope for doesn't have any effect on the weather. People who love a mild winter aren't the cause of such a thing happening.
Like · Reply · Dec 22, 2015 11:32am
Bill Toth ·

Will save a bundle on my heating. A wonderful Christmas present!
Like · Reply · 1 · Dec 22, 2015 10:37pm
Derrick Cornell Cephas ·

A back door cool front east of Washington DC may hold its ground and prevent the real warm air from arriving in DC on Thursday Dec 2 2015
Cory Morrison ·

December 2nd has already passed, and it was on a Wednesday this year. Even next year, due to the leap year, December 2nd will be on a Friday.
Like · Reply · Dec 20, 2015 6:32pm
Cory Morrison ·

Unless you meant Thursday December 24 2015?
Like · Reply · 2 · Dec 20, 2015 7:23pm
Cory Morrison ·

25F to 30F above normal. I will take it!
Deanne L. McKimmey ·

You can HAVE IT! frown emoticon
Like · Reply · 3 · Dec 20, 2015 4:15pm
Grant McGuire ·

MIGHT wear shorts Christmas Eve. Maybe.
Like · Reply · 3 · Dec 20, 2015 5:09pm
Bill Ross ·

Deanne L. McKimmey I want it too! you had your glory month in Feb 2015.
Like · Reply · 1 · Dec 21, 2015 12:14pm
Kurt Stephenson
New article...take your places everyone and commence the arguing at its new location...
Michael Carenza Jr. ·

I think I will sit back and read.
Like · Reply · 2 · Dec 20, 2015 8:52pm
 

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