This is fucking nutz. Having to use the AC on Feb 5? And I'm not in the tropics.

[Dawggie]

Record breaking heat where I'm at. I thought I had a fever until I checked the thermostat which was on heat and set for 60F and saw it was 74F.

Tornadoes to the north and west of me and the warnings keep going off.

This officially sucks. I want a refund.

[littlebit]

1. I hear ya

I wore shorts today it was so hot.

[MADem]

2. Well, don't be coy--where you AT? Generally speaking, anyway... nt

[Dawggie]

3. I'm in North AL near the Tennessee border where a typical temp would be in the 30's about now.

[MADem]

4. WOW...didn't Birmingham have snow the other week? NT

[Dawggie]

5. Yup. This is one of those "If you don't like the weather, hang around for a couple of days" places.

[Habibi]

9. That's pretty much true for most every place these days.

[RL3AO]

6. Give it about 3 more hours and you will be in the 30s or 40s.

[trof]

19. 72 and 102% humidity down here in L.A.*

*Lower Alabama

[RL3AO]

20. humidity can't be higher than 100%

:)

[trof]

22. According to my hygrometer it can.

It's pegged past 100.
whew

[Jane Austin]

7. Where are you?

East of Austin, TX tonight, the temperature dropped from muggy to cold during the primary returns.

The Goldens are very happy. :)

[Dawggie]

8. I'm in Northern AL and my Lab doesn't know what to think.

She wants to go swimming. :)

[Jane Austin]

10. Watch out for snakes.

It was so warm here in November that one of our little ones got bit by a snake right in our (admittedly rural) back yard.

I wasn't thinking about snakes in November.

Fang marks right on her muzzle, but she's fine now. My credit card isn't though, the emergency treatment cost $1000. Whew!

[Dawggie]

12. Damn. What part of the world are you in?

I can't imagine snakes out here yet, but now that you mention it...

[Jane Austin]

13. Texas.

(Insert depressing characterization here.)

[Dawggie]

14. Don't feel bad. You could live in my state and suffer the

indignations that AL & MS do. :)

[Jane Austin]

35. There's a blog called

folo that has been concerned lately with the Scruggs business in Mississippi. There are a lot of MS lawyers who chime in there with their insights and sightings of some of the actors, so it's very interesting. http://folo.wordpress.com

The blogger, Lotus, has a feature called "Our state is wusser than yours" in which there is a friendly competition in which Mississippians and Texans post whatever outrages have occurred in their respective states most recently.

Talk about a race to the bottom!

BTW, she posted some things on Monday about another huge legal scandal in MS.

http://folo.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/shelton-a-new-low-for-mississippi/

Whewee!

[Ichingcarpenter]

11. Tornados in early February check the history on that

It is called climate change, it is cold here on the Coast in California.

We lost major crops from the rains that will come back and bite you in the ASS
of inflation.

[kineneb]

15. I have come to think that 45 deg is positively balmy.

not quite t-shirt weather, but no need for a coat.

(We live in inland Coast Range @ 1335' elevation, had bit of snow last Monday.)

[windbreeze]

33. You must live somewhere close to me....45 would be balmy...and I

am at 50' elevation...on the left coast...wb

[onenote]

31. I did check the history. And tornadoes in February are not a recent phenomenon

Once again, people should be wary of falling into the trap of labelling individual events of extreme weather as proof of global climate change. Climate change is real, but its not proven by saying, hey we don't usually have tornadoes in February. Its much more complex.

Anyway, here's what NOAA has to say: "the frequency of tornadoes in the United States is closely tied with the progression of the warm season. Most of the early spring tornadoes in the U.S. tend to occur in the lower latitudes of the Southeast and south Central regions. Gulf States, such as Mississippi and Louisiana are the frequent recipients of tornadoes from February to April."

And here's another link:http://www.tornadochaser.net/february.html

Killer tornadoes have been occurring in places like alabama and georgia during February for a long long time:

FEB 19, 1884 2:30 pm 26 dead 80 injured
Deaths in six communities; 10 at Cross Plains (now called Piedmont) and 14 at Goshen.
FEB 12, 1945 5:22 pm 26 dead 293 injured (AL)
A 20-block area was devastated in what was called Chisholm, north of Montgomery. (A)

FEB 19, 1884 2:00 pm 22 dead 100 injured
Most deaths occurred south of Jasper, Pickens County, near Cagle and Tate; large homes swept away.
(GA)
FEB 10, 1921 12:30 pm 31 dead 100 injured
An entire section of a lumber mill village of Gardner, Washington County literally vanished. (GA)

[Broken_Hero]

16. No doubt about that, yesterday (the 4th)

it was 78 degree's...in mid Winter...in SW Missouri, where our normal/average temp is, 40 degree's...we broke a record high temp that day. And just a few days before, we had 6 inches of snow, and a week before that, we had temps below 0 (with wind chills)...one weird winter.

[RebelOne]

17. I'm in North Georgia northwest of Atlanta.

Yesterday morning, I put on a flannel shirt to go to the polls to vote. When I came home an hour later, I was sweating. I almost turned on my AC.

[Fierce]

18. You turn the AC on for 74 degrees?

Yowza.

[El Pinko]

23. I was gonna say the same thing.

And that was the temp on the thermostat indoors - must be a good 8 or 10 degrees cooler outside...


The sunny side of my house frequently hits 80 degrees, even on cool midwinter days, if the sun is out.

[RebelOne]

25. I do. When it goes above 70, I start to sweat and I hate to sweat. n/t

[Ganja Ninja]

21. I've lived in Florida since 1988 and this is the warmest winter yet.

If this keeps up I'm going to plant some bananas.

[Corgigal]

24. My little window unit is on this morning

I live in SC and it's already humid in my little computer room. Those storms will be hitting us tonight so tomorrow our weather will go back down. I hate my electric bill already.

[raccoon]

26. Where are you? nt

[seabeyond]

27. and i am freezing my arse off, cant get heat to catch up and warm house

gonna have to take a hot shower to raise body heat.

this officially sucks, lol lol

[KharmaTrain]

28. Come On Over And Join The Shoveling Party

We're expecting up to a foot of "partly cloudy" in Chicago and it's just starting...and this stuff is headed east. If it hooks up with the southern leg of this storm, it could be quite a wild "Weekend in New England".

[BeachBaby]

29. The snow geese are freaking out.

The Canadian geese are confused and squawking their lungs out.

My kids went to school with short-sleeved shirts and no coats.

And I'm sitting here contemplating whether I should hit the beach with the dogs.

All of this is going on here in south Jersey, where we normally would be hunkering down in our houses and bitching about heating costs while we watch the snow fall; but alas, no snow yet.

Maybe April. :)

[treestar]

30. We are expecting a high of 71 today

Philadelphia area.

It has not been winter at all this year. More like an extension of autumn.

[moondust]

32. Blizzard in the Midwest. n/t

[B Calm]

34. I have to drive to Kalamazoo, Michigan tonight, I feel your pain, NOT