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A beautiful and very springlike day in London again today with sunny spells, a couple of short, sharp afternoon showers and a high in the low 50s. The primrose flowers are out (one of our first spring flowers), some of the hedges are in bud, and the daffodils look about a week or so from flowering. The first half of February so far has had an average of 7.5C/46F averaged over central England, which would be almost exactly normal if this was the first half of April, and I haven't needed any heating in my flat since the first day of the month. If the month ends like this it will be the mildest February in 232 years, and this coming after a December which would have been the all-time coldest in 350 years of records if it had started and ended four days earlier. The forecast for the second half of the month seems to alternate between more abnormal mildness and heavy snow - either way, winter 2010/2011 is going to be one of the strangest any of us can remember.
Spring is finally awakening here, I'd say we just entered "the transition", anything goes now. Can't rule out 60 degrees and you can't rule out another snowstorm. I see four 50 degree days in the forecast but then after that I see a little bit of winter (I hope that changes).
It sounds so nice in London, flowers are FAR from blooming here lol.
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Originally Posted by nei
Does NYC still have snow on the ground?
I know Central Park supposedly still has about 5-7 inches or so but there's nothing much out here (maybe nothing to 2 inches) unless it's a huge glacier from the snowplows.
A couple of inches in places where no one bothered to plow/shovel. I wouldn't call it snow, though. Repeated thaws and freezes turned it into low density ice.
It finally moderated to normal temperatures, 40 degrees sounds like a heat wave. It'll dip back down into the 30s but then climb all the way up to 50 by the end of the week. That's the first taste of nice weather we've had for about 2 months.
I'm watching that Iceland Volcano. If it erupts like they say it's going to, its supposed to be far larger than last years eruption. That might put a chill on summer. We also have to see what the strong La Nina is going to do.
First taste of spring this upcoming week. Will be sad to see the impressively long snowpack start to disappear, but temperatures in the 50s will feel very nice.
Here in South Texas, a very welcome spring looks like it's finally here. After a bone-chilling winter with a dozen nights below freezing and the 30s being the usual, it looks like it's finally heading for summer. For the next week, it is expected to be in the (normal) 70s every day, and the 50s every night. Yesterday, there were ice crusts on puddles in shaded areas even into the afternoon.
The snowdrops have been pushing their way up here in Vancouver over the last week or so. Spring is definitely around the corner here. I heard that the daffodils are already up in Victoria and the Gulf Islands. It should only be a matter of weeks now before everything goes in full bloom here.
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