Down right Balmy out there!

[Rick P]

This bad boy has been pumping warm air in from the California coast for the last 3 days. We went from -20 to +38 in 36 hours! The storm started as a blizzard and now it's raining. But that's nothing compared to the shift Delta Junction went through.....-60 on Sunday to +36 yesterday! That's a 96 degree shift in less than a week!

 

[renowb]

Raining all week here in Houston!

 

[Holz Mechaniker]

The weather guy out of Grand Rapids said we are to get some wintery mix by this time next week. I won't hold my breath if your having "warm" weather.

 

[ed4copies]

I thought January was REALLY NICE---only a couple days in the teens, NONE below zero!! Several 40 degree and a couple 50 degree days. Had me thinking about "global warming" and maybe "giving it a chance".

Beginning of February came and they started "wrapping up" January. FOURTEENTH WARMEST---since they have kept records, fewer than 100 years, so we are at about the 80th percentile, overall. VERY NICE, but not historically "out of bounds".

 

[Longfellow]

82 and sunny here is St. Cloud.

 

[Rick P]

Holz, My family in Michigan is going nuts with the warm weather........not much fun running a sled on dirt.

Ed, the climate is changing only question is how much of that change is do to our activity. Personally I think our contribution is a very small drop in a big bucket! This has been a wonderful winter! Great conditions for all the things I love about life here in Alaska. We normally get a warm snap around this time of year but this one is really strong.

Longfellow, you guys are more than welcome to keep that heat down there! I like the frozen bits of the planet nicely covered in snow and ice thank you very much.......at 70 I look for a glacier stream to sit in to cool off, 75 I am buck naked laying on the glacier, probably drop over dead at 80 degrees!

 

[randyrls]

...at 70 I look for a glacier stream to sit in to cool off, 75 I am buck naked laying on the glacier, probably drop over dead at 80 degrees!

OH GOD!!!!! Get that image out of my head!!!!!!!:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

 

[Rick P]

Smooth cool and refershing!

 

[Leviblue]

Rick, is that you in the photo? I see something in the stream near the bend.

 

[Jgrden]

WE are looking for some snow but it is not coming. What's up.??

 

[Rick P]

Levi
No that crevasse is probably 50 feet deep but only a few feet wide. Once you got in the water you'd be stuck, the sides are very steep and slick. I don't think I have any pics of me swimming up here, its so rarely hot that I seldom go.