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If this trend holds Spring may make a comeback and the advent of Summer may be delayed for many parts of the United States (as opposed to the summer-like conditions now; if it cools down and snows it would still be spring).
To repeat, your idea of spring is subjective. Mine is too, but at least mine has spring with temperatures in between summer and winter. Snow and hard freezes would delay the onset of spring in the sense of budding to full plant growth.
The heat wave conditions, especially for the midwest, were summer like conditions, while a snowstorm and hard freezes would be a return to winter or at least mud season conditions. A return to spring conditions in my mind would be days consistently in the 50s or 60s.
Though I guess you mean it would still be spring as in mud season / early spring rather than deep winter or summer.
Accu Story on it. Virginians, Carolinians Asking 'What the Hail?' (http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/virginians-carolinians-asking/63212 - broken link)
22.3C / 72.1F at Fyvie Castle, Aberdeenshire, in the north east of Scotland
6.0C / 42.8F in Manston, Kent, in the south east of England.
LOL
Fyvie ended up at 22.8c/73.0f - a new record high temperature for Scotland for the month of March, and indeed higher than many english cities highest march readings, however it needs to be 25.7c/78.3f or above for the English record to be broken. Twitter
Re. those anomaly tables nei posted: Like it! Is there anything comparable that's happened in the past?
Another above average warm, sunny afternoon here today with no rain, and this March is more than likely going to end up in the top five or six warmest of all time. We've only had one notably below average day in the whole of the past five weeks, and by the end of the month the YTD rainfall will be below half of what we'd expect - again, after the 'once-a-century' dry spring we had last year! How anybody can still say this isn't climate change amazes me.
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Is there anything comparable that's happened in the past?
