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Daffodils on our block here in Brooklyn started coming up around the last week of February, which felt like three weeks or so too soon.

This was definitely the mildest winter I've experienced in my life. And if I'm remembering correctly, NYC was reclassified as a "humid, subtropical" climate zone a few years ago. Looking forward to the future palm trees on the east river. /s

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> This was definitely the mildest winter I've experienced in my life.

In Buffalo it's been a really weird winter—mostly unusually mild, punctuated by a few very severe events (giant snowstorm in November, 2-day blizzard in December, ice storm in February) but returning to mild shortly after. Honestly this past week or so is the first time it's felt like a normal winter.

Same here in Virginia. This is exactly how I'd describe it. From what I understand, it's caused by the increasing energy in the Earth's climatic system leading the jet stream to bound further north and further south than typical, causing extremely warm tropical air to make it strangely far north in the summer (2021 Seattle heatwave) and for extremely cold arctic air to make it strangely far south in the winter (2022 DC it got down to subzero Fahrenheit, coldest I've felt in my life)

My anecdotal experience over the last 15 years or so in the Northeast suggests that this has been the trend, along with summer ending later and starting later.

For anyone not in Brooklyn this morning, it is snowing here right now.

It snows in Florida sometimes, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_in_Florida

NYC saw the warmest January on record, and measurable snow didn't start in NYC this year until Feb 1, the latest in 150 years. https://www.wunderground.com/article/news/news/2023-01-30-ne...

And it's over 40 in Providence.

I'm having trouble reading your comment as anything other than misleading about how warm this winter has been.

New England is also having one of its warmest winters on record, and the trend over the last 40 years has been consistent warming.

It's raining in Boston. Although points west and north are getting a lot of heavy, wet snow.

I'd need to look up the numbers but I felt like while we didn't get much snow at all that we got a *lot* of rain. There were a number of rainstorms where if it'd been rain we'd have been pounded. And when it did snow, not much stuck and/or it melted away in a couple of days. This isn't the only year I can remember that, but it's at least unusual.

> For anyone not in Brooklyn this morning, it is snowing here right now.

Weather ≠ climate.

Just ask California over the last little while.

In fact it may snow more often as the climate warms a bit in some regions: as warmer air holds more moisture. Then when it slams into a cold front it sheds that moisture, and with climate change destabilizing the jet stream ("polar vortex") the cold Arctic air may jut farther down hitting the warm-moist air that comes up from the south.

I'm right outside Philly, and this is definitely the mildest winter I can ever remember. It's only snowed enough once that we had to even get the plows and shovels out, and that melted right off like the next day. Other than a few snow flurries here and there, it's been exceptionally mild.

While its about a month out of date... and it has a a NYC focus (but can be changed to show any locale)

NYT - You Call That Snow?! See How This Winter Stacks Up. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/01/26/upshot/city-s...

> the mildest winter I've experienced in my life

As the joke goes: The mildest winter of your life so far

Here in SF we’re having what is definitely the hardest winter I’ve seen in my 8 years here. Can’t remember the last time SF had so much weather. Even thunderstorms! Multiple!

I believe a lot of the reason for the mild winter on the east coast and wet cold winter on the west is because of La Nina, which apparently just ended a few days ago after about a year of being here.

I've lived through several la nina cycles but only one midwest winter without snow.

I've lived here nearly half a decade. We had thunder and lightening storms when I was a kid, then almost none for the last decade or two. This years' storms are heavy but not out of line w/ my personal experience, for what that's worth. ;)

Mammoth mountain is on track to have a record breaking year of snow fall.

In San Diego its basically sf weather this winter. Highs are rarely above 60, lows even in the high 30s, the water is mid 50s,and it seems to be rain like once a week.

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