where is winter at this year?

it was 55 degrees out to day in Kansas. tomorrow its going to be in the 60s, what gives? i like this nice weather a lot but it makes me wounder what is really going on here. look at the next 10 days weather for kansas upper 40s to the 60s
not very winter like right. this year in Wichita ks we had a sprinkling of snow, not even enough to cover the road.

so what could be causing this odd winter temps? should we be alarmed as to what the summer is going to bring? i always though if the winter is mild the summer is wild. so are we going to be looking at a massive drought and heat wave this summer?

to me its way strange for this time of year. so what is your take on the current weather patterns we are having?


and winter feel free to come back at any time i want to go ice fishing

we have relatively normal winter temperatures where i live in Ontario Canada, all ive noticed is a lack of snow with some odd warm days.

and by lack of snow i mean less than usual. ive only had to shovel my driveway 3 times. where usually its like every other day haha

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Well, I live in the mountains of BC Canada and it started raining today...that and the issue with a cricket on my door step today tells me something is wrong here.

We have ice, snow and cold....And today we have melting, rain and insects...In January...In CANADA?

I don't get it and have never seen this.

Peace

ya down here in Kansas ive been wearing shorts almost all winter. i cant remember a time when i was able to do that. even in Colorado some of the ski resorts are struggling with the lack of snow fall and warmer temps melting the snow

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so what could be causing this odd winter temps?

The sun.
It's been pretty active, let's enjoy the warmer temps while they last. We're probably going to get some huge snowfalls in March - April.

Im in chicago and we have had a very mild winter too only one really decent snowfall. I think we get your weather though as it moves east. Personally i really enjoy the winter and i miss the change summer is going to be a beeooootch. Makes you wonder.

It was BEAUTIFUL here today..I was just telling my husband today if we could make it through the next couple of weeks we will scott free! NO SNOW at all this year!!!)))) We usually warm up here my march and rarely have snow after march 15..so hopefully this weather will stay!

Kentucky here...

Yesterday and Today were very windy and cold...

Even still... it wasnt the "typical" January weather...

With the exception of yesterday and today its been unseasonable warm...

with only 2 slight snows... slight i say...


Heck bugs are starting to come back out... and I seen spiders...

I've never seen a spider in winter around here...

SPIDERS in winter... The end is nigh lol

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You asked a good question as to what the summer may bring. I am going to see if I can find the climatology reports from similar years to this winter, but what you will find is that many of them have near average to below average summer temperature wise. At least for my area...

Let me see if I can find any for that region though...

Here in Los Angeles its been rather warm the last two days as well

Originally posted by JibbyJedi
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so what could be causing this odd winter temps?

The sun.
It's been pretty active, let's enjoy the warmer temps while they last. We're probably going to get some huge snowfalls in March - April.

you think we will have some late snow fall this year, idk. i think its going to be early summer and just get hotter as we go through the summertime.

Originally posted by EvolEric
Kentucky here...

Yesterday and Today were very windy and cold...

Even still... it wasnt the "typical" January weather...

With the exception of yesterday and today its been unseasonable warm...

with only 2 slight snows... slight i say...


Heck bugs are starting to come back out... and I seen spiders...

I've never seen a spider in winter around here...

SPIDERS in winter... The end is nigh lol

edit on 1/29/12 by EvolEric because: (no reason given)

i know all to well about the bugs being out. i was out to day fishing and had a few mosquitoes land on me and had some fly's bugging me also. really this year we have not had a deep freeze to kill of the bugs.

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From what I understand, this unseasonably warm winter is caused by El Nina. The pacific currents affect the jet streams path and location.

They..."meteorologists” predict that the jet stream will be moving south again in the near future, bringing with it winter.

I’m looking forward to see how it pans out, but I predict that when it does, it will be nasty. Wet Snow, vs. the fluffy stuff. Always makes driving a adventure and hazardous.

I think the steady influx of solar flares is causing it to be warmer than normal. It will be in the 70s tomorrow down here in Texas, and no rain in sight. We haven't had rain the entire month of January, and it doesn't look like any is coming in the next week.

The bugs are coming out because they go by temperature and not the calendar. We've had flies, bees, wasps, and scorpions waking up like it is spring. They're confused, and so are the plants and trees.

This year seemed to go from fall to spring with really nothing in between.

These past two weeks we've had like 7 days where it's been above 66 degrees here in the DFW area.

We've also only had one slight snowfall and that's it.

Last year at this time it was 12 degrees with 8 inches of snow. Right now it's 53 and clear and the rest of the week looks to be the same...with 3 days above 70 www.wunderground.com...

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lol, I wasnt fishing but I was in the creek last week...
looking for petrified tree rocks...
it was around 65-70 degrees

reached down to pick up a rock up that was on the banks of the creek...

and these two BIG I mean big spiders was sitting next to it...
i freaked out...
the spiders freaked out...

I ran away...
the spiders ran away by jumping in the water
lol

scary day for a pansie like me who is scurd of spiders

Seems the NCDC is having problems loading pages right now, so I will try again tomorrow to get the actual info for you, or if you'd like to go poking around yourself and see if you can get the pages to load you can do so yourself.

www.ncdc.noaa.gov...

Here's also the climatology page for Wichita, KS...though the data they have on their specific page only goes back to 1997, where the NCDC pages should go back to 1887.

www.crh.noaa.gov...

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you think we will have some late snow fall this year, idk. i think its going to be early summer and just get hotter as we go through the summertime.

I don't know, check the Farmer's Almanac for this Winter/Spring seasons. The Almanac has the best record of forecasting, taking into account the variables of the sun & the moon.
I personally think we are going to get hit hard March/April like we did in late October 2011, at least the east coast USA will I believe.

ETA:

For the winter of 2011–12, the Farmers’ Almanac is forecasting “clime and punishment,” a season of unusually cold and stormy weather. For some parts of the country, that means a frigid climate; while for others, it will mean lots of rain and snow.

www.farmersalmanac.com...

*Looks under podium*

Nope, not under here.

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It is called weather.. You are having mild weather, while in other areas the temperatures are below normal.

Winter is very much present here where i live.