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**Hey, Hachi, I'm in CT. Yesterday a friend and I went chugging around the Berkshires with the windows DOWN. :-/ This is so SO very abnormal. I haven't even worn a winter coat yet.

kaboomie

We had a few days up here where it was a good idea, but I shed my coat rapidly today!

I'm in Mass near the VT border, and we hit 75 degrees today!

Wow. The low here last night was only in the low 50's, & it hit 64 today before a cold front came through w/rain. Then dropped to 54, but went back up to 59 later on. I thought 64 was ridiculously warm, but 75?! That's absurd for this time of year. Was that a record high for this date (or even for Jan.), maybe?

Meteorologists must be having a ball between the snowstorms out west & the ultra-warm weather in the NE.

Cathy

This wx is not that extreme. The public has been so overhyped with this global warming fairy tail that they are starting to believe it. Sheep. Humans are very good followers.

So you keep saying. Officially (out at the airport, not at my house) the average low for january in this immediate area is 12 - 15º. The average high is 31 - 33º. In the last 2 days the low was 47, & the high was 62. Only about a 30º difference... nope, not the least bit extreme. Reiterating... it's been warm for so long now that flowers are popping out of the ground & buds are swelling. They normally don't so this until late Feb. - March - April, depending on the species.

The public has been so overhyped with this

You're assuming stuff for others. Global warming is a s-l-o-w increase in temps. Not a 30º all-at-once deal! It may have a small influence, but el Niño is more likely to blame for this distinctly weird weather.

Cathy

**It was just as warm here and I still think it's freakish. There are a lot of motorcyles out as well as some very happy walkers. The DOT plow drivers are pretty pissed off though they can't make all that extra moulah!

kaboomie

I doubt the guys who plow driveways & parking lots for extra $ during the winter are too happy w/this, either. Nor the ski resorts. Snow? What snow? The grass is green - in some places *bright* green.

Cathy

My oil and natural gas shares just LOVE that warm weather the NE USA is having. NOT!!!!

For the rest of the US and Canada, the weather sucks. Global warming, the current favourte bugaboo of the LIEbrawls is, for the most part, just part of the cycle that has repeated itself for MILLIONS of years, long before the first infernal combustion engine. Long before the first factory. Deal with it by NOT being so stupid as putting buildings below or near sea level. Makes more sense for humans to MOVE to safety, but oh noooo the idiot lefties think the answer to so somehow control sea level.

El Nino is much more likely to be the reason. Agreed. Sheeet. A current opinion poll taken in Canada indicateds that the Environment is the number one issue in peoples' minds, NOT the shitty state of botched up care in Canada, NOT the idiotic income and other TAXES but the effing environment. Hell, 99% of us Canadians panic at the first smell of Diesel exhaust, running around like so many Chicken Littles. The LIEbrawl, i.e. the party of the corrupt, in Canada has sure pull the wool over Canadians' eyes--they have forgotten the MILLIONS of dollars that party's officials have stolen from the PUBLIC.

Yeah...but like me, the municipalities are saving a LOT in oil costs (Diesel, etc) and, they aren't going to run out of road salt THIS year!

Too bad my Targa Roof Supra is in the garage in pieces...

The 'offical' record was 71 at Westover AFB in Chicopee. But it was 75 by the bank thermometer at 2:45, and I have checked it...it's correct.

I prepaid for 5 tanks of oil. I am 1/3 of the way through my 2nd.

Don't worry...they're making it up on the price of gas...

El Nino. Happens every few years, but this IS the warmest winter on record, I believe.

I think you and I are the only ones who know this. But, historically, we are SUPPOSED to be heading for an Ice Age! I wrote a paper for a Geology Class that said before an Ice Age, the Earth will actually warm before the Big Freeze. The teacher called it an 'interesting theory'.

My 'interesting theory' was borne out on the History Channel a couple months ago. Seems that it may actually happen before an Ice Age...

AOL... And global warming's early effects (AIUI) are likely to be an increase in weird weather, hot/cold where cold/hot should be, more/stronger storms. Any of that sound familar to anyone?

The really funny stuff comes later, when it is too late for the ostriches to save themselves.

The chap who deserved a pat on the back was Milutin Milankovitch, whose Theory about interactions of cycles in the orbital dynamics of our planet accounts for many major long-term variations in the global temperature. He died before proof was available; but that fact alone should underline that some theoretical studies hit the target smack-on. (Some don't, it's true; but don't throw out the baby with its bath water.) However, scientists are still seeking explanations for variations not covered by Milankovitch's Theory. Plate tectonics, for example, seem to have been a major factor: a very important mechanism is ocean currents, carrying heat between the equatorial region and the poles; if continents are in the way the "screened" pole tends to freeze; when they move aside, things can warm up again.

**True. Already some of the towns in CT are getting giddy over preserving their snow budgets. However, I remember having blizzards in April so they should remove the money signs from their eyeballs, it's not over yet. **I was tempted to make my Impreza a targa top but my Dad wouldn't let me borrow his chainsaw :) Are you rebuilding the Supra? I think I have an old, unbuilt Fujimi Supra model around somewhere but it's not a targa top.

kaboomie