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<p>It was 60F yesterday.</p>
<p>Pretty strange- I fear for March.</p>
<p>It’s been mid-50’s here most of this week. That’s practically freezing.</p>
<p>I know! I was walking the dogs last night and it felt like a summer night. I came in and checked the temp and it was 577! At 7pm in January!</p>
<p>577 would be pretty warm anywhere!</p>
<p>We are having a longer, although normally mild, January thaw here in Connecticut. But it’s on the heels of a very cold snap. Snow this weekend I think. Brrrr.</p>
<p>The lows are in the teens and twenties in my area for the next week except for Sunday which is above freezing. 21 degress where I am right now.</p>
<p>I have Seattle, Honolulu, Boston, New York, and Cupertino on my iPhone’s Weather button. Currently, we are in the second place :)</p>
<p>Of course, the warm January here is the result of Costco selling out of their $10 snow shovels back in November. :)</p>
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<p>Oh, yeah? Anywhere? Well, what about in an iron smelter?</p>
<p>likewise, 200 miles south of emerald: I’ve started to wear shortsleeves shirts and biking with less spandex top and bottoms :)</p>
<p>I’m in Socal…we’re getting dumped on here.</p>
<p>And it’s snowing in AZ. S1’s college is closed due to snow!</p>
<p>“California is getting clobbered!” Mass said with barely hidden glee." (from the article)</p>
<p>…nice.</p>
<p>Our January has been all out of whack. Ranging from sub-0 temps to mid 40s here in Michigan. Friends in the UP are getting their butts kicked by the cold.</p>
<p>Snow in AZ? Really? </p>
<p>This is funny. This advisory board I chair was debating about whether we should have our annual meeting next week in either Arizona (where we usually have it), or here in the PNW where I live. I chose here, but felt a bit bad dragging everyone into wet cold weather when they could have warm sunny weather, but now it looks like it would have been equally cold and wet in both places! Maybe drier here, actually, which is really strange.</p>
<p>S is a senior at a SoCal college. I called him yesterday to see if they were flooded. . .</p>
<p>Mom: "So, how’s the weather out there?’
S: “Well, I can’t get to class without getting totally soaked. . .”
Mom: “Where’s your umbrella?”
S: “Don’t have one.”
Mom: “Didn’t you think of taking one to college with you?”
S: “Why would I do that?”</p>
<p>LOL–can you say “California Brain?” </p>
<p>I don’t think he’s coming back to the Midwest–where we are celebrating the reappearance of pavement/sidewalks after a super cold and snowy month.</p>
<p>Pretty much the opposite here-just got the heating bill for the past month. It’s pretty much the worst I can remember in a long time. DH is going to pass out when he sees it. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I do not think an umbrella would have helped anyone in CA yesterday. My H almost drove into this last night (see the first photo):</p>
<p>[Calif</a>. Storms - Yahoo! News Photos](<a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Calif-Storms/ss/events/us/101409califstorms]Calif”>http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Calif-Storms/ss/events/us/101409califstorms)</p>
<p>:eek:</p>
<p>Here in San Diego we might get graupel today. I’ve never heard of graupel.</p>
<p>Week of wet weather may get even weirder
Rarely seen graupel possible from storm</p>
<p>By Robert Krier, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 12:18 a.m.</p>
<p>As strange as the weather has been this week for normally sunny and mild San Diego County, it could get even weirder today.</p>
<p>Besides heavy rain and thunderstorms soaking the flatlands, snow blanketing the mountains and 12- to 18-foot waves battering the beaches, today could bring waterspouts, tornadoes, hail and the rarely seen graupel, which forms when supercooled water droplets coat snowflakes.</p>
<p>The latest weather system also could be accompanied by the lowest barometric pressure ever measured in San Diego, signaling the potential for an intense storm.
All along the coast, winds could approach 60 mph. Low-level gusts could disrupt flights in and out of Lindbergh Field.</p>
<p>You all are making me very jealous. We’ve had a typical nasty January–snow, ice, bitter winds, repeat, throw in gray days a plenty. My opinion is that January and February should be obliterated from the calendars of those in the midwest.</p>
<p>Not sure about the warmest January ever but we’re certainly having a very mild winter here in Toronto. Not a flake of snow in November. Mild temperatures through much of December. One week of cold temps and then the past week of mild weather. Still no snow on the ground and that’s pretty much unheard of by this time of the month. We’ve had measurable snowfall once or twice all winter but that’s it. The guy who plows our driveway has come exactly once. I’m not complaining, I’m actually knocking on wood and hoping that it continues!</p>
<p>It rain very hard here. I’ve heard there were tornado warnings in some part of Southern California. Umbrella wouldn’t help. I went outside the day before last, got soaked and got sick.
D2 went to school with her rain boots and ski jacket. She does not have raincoat. I hope things to ge better soon.</p>