global warming?

[ada@prorider.or]

we had 28 degrees C today
amazing weather

and in california storms?

[Grant McLean]

February was the coldest on record in almost 30 years,
after November and December were warm. Must be El Nino.

It's been 10-12'c below normal now for at least a month.
Only hit 6'c today. Some snow forecast for later tonight.
I'll take some global warming, anytime now!

g

[michael white]

"This has been the world's warmest winter since record-keeping began more than a century ago, according to the U.S. government agency that tracks weather.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Thursday that the combined global land and ocean surface temperature from December through February was at its highest since records began in 1880.

A record-warm January was responsible for pushing up the combined winter temperature, according to the agency's Web site,

"Contributing factors were the long-term trend toward warmer temperatures as well as a moderate El Nino in the Pacific," Jay Lawrimore of NOAA's National Climatic Data Center said in a telephone interview from Asheville, N.C.

The next-warmest winter on record was in 2004, and the third warmest winter was in 1998, Lawrimore said.

The 10 warmest years on record have occurred since 1995. . . ."