Weird Winter!

[Summit]

What a weird winter so far. In NC it's mid-sixties and at 8 PM on 12/31 I have my AC running. I did my conditioning training today in shorts and t-shirt! Tomorrow, New Year's Day is supposed to get close to 70. But by mid-week we're supposed to see mid-30 highs and lows around 20.

[HiKen2011]

What a weird winter so far. In NC it's mid-sixties and at 8 PM on 12/31 I have my AC running. I did my conditioning training today in shorts and t-shirt! Tomorrow, New Year's Day is supposed to get close to 70. But by mid-week we're supposed to see mid-30 highs and lows around 20.

Same thing here. Probably be a good year to start a thru hike early. Who knows?

[4eyedbuzzard]

Freezing rain here today. Typical NH New Year. Made it dangerous getting to the liquor store.

[Summit]

Freezing rain here today. Typical NH New Year. Made it dangerous getting to the liquor store.

I'm sure will power overcame fear!

[4eyedbuzzard]

I thought about waiting until tomorrow, but they'd be closed, and I could die, and . . . nevermind

[Blissful]

Not unusual for the south.

[Summit]

Not unusual for the south.

I'm originally from FL. I consider NC North! LOL!

[Blissful]

For me North is NY on up. (I hail from NY)

Mid is PA, MD, NJ

South to me is VA on down. Esp when it gets on to summer. HOT and humid

[shelterbuilder]

Talk about wierd - I've got trees standing in soft, muddy ground right now that are toppling over in 20 MPH winds when they should be locked into reasonably frozen ground! Not the best kind of situation for hiking (or sleeping outdoors). Maybe the Mayans are right about 2012....

[JAK]

Breaking a daily high at least once a week up here. Broke 50degF just the other day.

[oops56]

yup been nice here too its 38F no snow no rain got mud and the wood stove is out i was thinking i run out of wood before spring guess i was wrong may have some left over

[nitewalker]

we have a hanging planter outside from mothers day and the thing still has a few purple and yellow viola flowers. its gonna be 50 today something like 45ish tomorrow but only mid 20s for tues and wed. saturday the 6th is forcast to be 48 and sunny. we are in a pattern that brings warmer weather in every weekend and its been going on for close to two months now, maybe more. check the weather archives and you will notice the pattern...

[Sarcasm the elf]

Feels like we've had two fairly unusual winters in a row. This time last year we had bout thirty inches of snow on the ground in Connecticut and the lows were near zero (f). Now it's new years day and I'm getting ready to hop into my kayak in the Housatonic as soon as the fog clears.

[tiptoe]

Here in Connecticut, the big chill is expected mid-week, but just yesterday I noticed something I've never seen in decades of gardening: new rhubarb pushing up out of the ground. Normally, that happens in April. We've had many days where temps have been in the 409s and 50s.

[shelterbuilder]

Yep - here in Pa., some of the trees are trying to bud, and a few forsythia bushes are pushing flowers. I'm thinking that this can't be a good thing in the long run.

[tiptoe]

Yep. I have flowering forsythia in a vase on the dining table right now. And we are still clearing downed limbs from the October snowstorm! Weird, weird, weird.

[Slo-go'en]

If this weather keeps up, it will be a poor year for Maple syrup production.

[Chaco Taco]

Bring on the snow. Im ready for snowshoe and ski's.

[HeartFire]

I'm also in Asheville, My daffodils and irises are all coming up! everyone was out running in shorts and t-shirts today

[shelterbuilder]

If this weather keeps up, it will be a poor year for Maple syrup production.

If your maples start uprooting like our oaks down here, it could be a few poor DECADES for maple syrup production! I've got one that's threatening to crush our hiking club's cabin near Rt. 501 - a huge monster that was probably a sapling when the cabin was built back in the mid-1930's! I just pray that it doesn't topple over any more until I can get it stabilized with some wire-cable back-guys...and the wind is picking up down here!