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Originally Posted by JetsNHL
Winnipeg has seen 97 ice days so far.
I am not in winnipeg now though, I'm at 55N at the moment. Where I am now, there has been an ice day every single day since November 7th. And more before that too, but the environment Canada records are missing.
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Was down in the South last week for work.
Fascinating to look at the difference between your current landscape, and the landscape I just left at coastal Alabama and FL panhandle. You probably look out your window at an arctic winter wonderland. I roamed all over Mobile thru Apalachicola talking to people sitting on their porches enjoying their winter weather outside. Didn't look like winter at all.
Here is a sampling from Feb 19th to 27th:
Interstate 10 between AL and FL Feb 19th 2015
Mobile, AL street scenes Feb 21st 2015
Saw quite a few orange trees in Mobile neighborhoods
Flowering plants and trees
Does this look like winter lol
What a tree
Fort Morgan, AL Feb 22nd 2015
Orange Beach, AL Feb 20th
Orange Beach Feb 22nd
Destin FL Feb 20th
Gulf Shores, AL Feb 22nd
Beaches- saw lots of Canadian flags on the beach chairs lol.
Apalachicola, FL east of Destin on the panhandle Feb 23rd thru 27th
So while the Southeast is not a subtropical "paradise" lol, it certainly offers a respite from the bitter cold the rest of the eastern half of North America has been experiencing. And it has been below avg down there also, so normally it would look a lot more green and flowering in a more average winter. But still I saw loads of flowers, insects, butterflies, bees, palm trees and citrus. I saw fields with some sort of crops growing in them.