Excerpts from CNN and NY1 (editorials mine):Crocuses are pushing out of the ground in New Jersey. Ice fishing tournaments in Minnesota are being canceled for lack of ice. And golfers are hitting the links in Chicago in January.
Much of the Midwest and the East Coast are experiencing remarkably (dangerous and abnormally) warm winter, with temperatures running 10 and 20 degrees higher than normal in many places.
Call it global warming, Mother Nature or plain old luck (Is this really “luck”? Will we feel “lucky” when it is 120 out in July?) – New York City’s unusually warm weather made a lot of people wonder yesterday just what on earth is going on (a damn good question).
Temperatures have hovered around 60 degrees this week and could soar to a record high of 70 on Saturday.
The national weather service says normal highs this time of year are in the 30s.
At the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, officials say some cherry trees are already in full bloom, but weather experts say there is no reason for concern. They say temperatures are consistent with global weather patterns (yeah right! – maybe they’re consistent with current weather patterns, but everything is consistent with itself).
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, meanwhile, says people should enjoy the warm weather while they can (he later went to Bloomingdales to purchase asbestos underwear). And he joked the lack of snow is making things easier for sanitation workers.
"The Sanitation Department has done their usual spectacular job,” said Bloomberg. “I defy anyone to find a snow covered street this year; the Sanitation Department is right there in the middle of the night, when you don't see them.” (For those who may not be aware of this, in New York City the trash guys and gals put plows on the fronts of the trash trucks and use them to plow the streets – is snow really a waste management issue?)
The weather service says it is the first time New York has had a snow-less November and December since 1877, when record keeping began (do I hear January?).
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