The AM Forum

Boy, since winter arrived our weather has been getting progressivly warmer and warmer and warmer. All the bitter cold and snow we got in the fall is long melted and gone. This week is getting warmer and warmer each day. By Friday we're supposed to be near 60 degrees.

I'm in southeast new york. Wonder if you guys up in New England and upstate New York have been getting this springlike weather as well ?

All the cold has moved to India:

Delhi gets first winter ice in 70 years, Indian cold toll soars

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/187217/1/.html

What I 'm afraid of is what February has in store for us. 

It will all average out by spring within a few percent. You might want to make sure you have plenty of fuel once the January thaw is over.

Hah, once the January "mini spring" ends ?? I've seen this happen before. It gets warmer and warmet. Then onve day the winter thunderstorms (and sometimes tornadoes) pass through and then it's ice cold again. Wouldn'tbe surprised to see it happen this year.

Notice how the price of gasoline dropped after the Katrina spike.  Here, the avg price of regular got up above $3.00/gal, but it took a drop and for a while was below $2/gal.  Since then, it has been slowly creeping back up, right now is about $2.25/gal.  In the meantime, heating fuel went up, and stayed up.  Back in late October I paid $599 to fill the propane tank.  Had to refill it right after the first of the year.  The bill for the same amount of gas this time was $650.  Just a couple of years ago it cost about $300 to fill the tank.

Since the price of gasoline took such a precipitous drop, why didn't the price of heating fuel drop along with it?

It has been getting up into the 60's pretty regularly since before xmas.  If the temp drops back to normal, I wonder how people are going to be able to afford to heat the house.

I've been running the house at about 65 degrees F, the shack at about 60 deg, and turning the heat off entirely over night.

...HAVENT HAD WINTER YET IN TORONTO...A COUPLE OF DUSTINGS OF SNOW,ALL GONE...RAIN LAST NIGHT,RAIN TODAY,TEMP IS ABT 50*F..I DONT MIND..THAT'S THE ONE THING ABT BEING ON THE NORTH SHORE OF LAKE ONTARIO...WE RARELY GET LAKE EFFECT SNOW...TIM...SK..

It's very similar to the mediveal warming that occured @1000 to 1300 a.d.

'Course what followed circa 1300  to 1850 is known as the Little Ice Age or "Big Chill" which is responsible for the Vikings demise in Greenland.

Shades of things to come ????

 Jeeze were even outsourcing winter.......