Today is Feb 17, 2012 and it's 50 degrees. Retarded conservatives still think it's a hoax.
Plains shatter warm weather records, set historic high temperaturesBy Jason Samenow
High temperature records tied and broken across the U.S. Thursday (National Climatic Data Center) More than 300 record high temperatures were set in 21 U.S. states Thursday. But the heart of the unusual warmth concentrated in Plains, where some areas experienced temperatures 40 degrees above average.
Several locations set all-time January record high temperatures, including Huron (65 degrees) amd Mitchell (68 degrees) in South Dakota (SD) and Minot (61 degrees), Fargo (55 degrees) and Jamestown (56 degrees) in North Dakota. (Source: CapitalClimate).
What distinguishes this warm spell is the amount by which some records were broken. Consider Rapid City, SD hit 73, obliterating the old record by 13 degrees. (That 73 degree high temperature was 4 above the high temperature of 69 in Miami, Fl). Aberdeen, SD reached 63, smashing the old record of 46 by 17 degrees and setting a new monthly record.
AccuWeather highlighted the following incredible record: “...in Philip, S.D., the mercury reached a balmy 74 degrees, which absolutely obliterated the old record of 46 set back in 2002.â€
In Minnesota, several locations reached the 60s for the first time ever during the first week of January. Alexandria reached 55, crushing its old record of 38 (from 1984) by an amazing 17 degrees (source: Star Tribune weather blog)
In Nebraska, record highs were set in Omaha (66), North Platte (69), Valentine (69) and Imperial (73, source: USA Today, AP). Sidney Nebraska’s record high of 74 broke the previous record of 62 and tied its monthly record.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/cap ... _blog.htmlPlants Blooming Early From Unseasonably Warm Weather NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The calendar may say February, but it doesn’t feel like it. Temperatures are expected to hit 60 degrees today and while that’s good for us, it may not bode well for early blooming plants.
On this date last year, the Tri-state area was covered with a quarter of an inch of ice and temperatures were in the 20s. But lately we’ve experiencing 50 and 60 degree temperatures and most people aren’t complaining.
“A very unusual winter, it’s been very warm and this one is one of the most mild I can remember,†said one man from Saddle River, N.J.
“I don’t really miss freezing and having a lot of snow,†said Manhattan resident Cheryl Smith Franco.
“It’s Mother Nature,†said Madeline Byrne from Dobbs Ferry. â€There’s nothing you can do about it so you just enjoy it.â€
But Mother Nature may be a little confused by the spring-like warmth.
At the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, Japanese apricot trees are in full bloom along with the yellow Adonis plants and azaleas.
The early bloom could make it tough for these plants to survive if we eventually get hit with a dose of winter weather.
“If it gets really cold, single digits at night for days, all the buds will just die,†said Kristin Schleiter with the Botanical Garden. “If it’s a once-blooming plant and it’s their flower bud, they’re gone until next spring