Okay, so 62°F in New York on the 19th of February is not normal. Whether you want to chalk it up to global warming or a normal variant that's happened in previous years going back further than somebody's been keeping weather statistics, I don't care. It's just sunny, breezy and nice.
My furnace has a second day of only needing to come on to maintain its own temperature range rather than the whole house. I wore a winter jacket this morning to do shopping because it was still chilly around 7 AM. This afternoon, though, I went outside without jacket or sweater and didn't feel like I needed the extra layers.
Speaking of extra layers, there's markedly more brown and green ground showing today than even end of day yesterday. Snow is melting very rapidly in these markedly above freezing temperatures. I even saw leaves from my crocuses are up about an inch. No, I don't believe they're going to bloom early. That only happened once in all the years the crocuses have been there and it was more than 10 years ago.
This week, we're supposed to be in the 40s during the day, 20s to 30s at night, with one or two days in the 50s again. It's a wonderful way to just about finish out February in my book.
Only 29 days until Spring.
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