Deep midwinter in the UK
It's mid-January, usually the time of hard frost and hopefull children looking at the sky for signs of snow.
Instead, we've had 2 very light frosts before Christmas and temperatures in double figures most days since then.
The garden doesn't know what to do, so the primroses have flowered and the crocuses are having a go. Very strange.
And Gesa's parents have lived in Montreal for over 40 years - this year was the first time they have had no snow at Christmas. What have we done to this planet? Or is the warmest year on record just one of those little statistical wobbles? Answers on a message in a bottle please.
posted by Nick Ward at
10:37 am
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It's just as bad here in Washington. The 5th warmest winter so far since 1850 something. No snow at all and barely a night below freezing. It's been mid sixties/low seventies for weeks and we've had the air con on. Very bizarre and not very good for skiing. The famous cherry blossom is already budding with 3 months to go before the normal season. The good news is that adverts are already running asking people to think about their personal contribution to global warming.
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