T-Shirt Weather Continues Across Britain - Record Highs In N. Yorkshire - Telegraph

[hatrack]

It was Jan 9 and people were out in T-shirts yesterday. The balmy winter weather – the warmest on record in parts of Britain – is causing confusion all round. Humans dressing for summer, hibernating animals refusing to sleep, migrating birds staying put; the warm winds blowing in from the Azores all mean that unless there is a cold snap in the next three weeks this January will be a record breaker.

The Met Office said it would be at least the weekend before any change to the warm, wet and windy conditions, but there was no immediate sign of temperatures plunging.

In London during the early hours yesterday it was 12.6C, ridiculously warm for this time of year and four times the 30-year average. RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire recorded 11.5C, the warmest January night since records began in 1945.

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Rhododendron flowers are still on the plants because of a lack of frost and in some parts of the country oaks are still in leaf. Daffodils have arrived early across the country and sightings have been reported in the last few days of Peacock and Red Admiral butterflies. Dr Kate Lewthwaite, of the Woodland Trust, said: "We had all sorts of strange sightings and recordings this December. "We've got dragonflies hovering over our ponds, bumble bees still buzzing about looking for pollen, crab apples still on trees, and blackthorn bushes having flowers at the same time as sloe berries. It's as if winter never started." She warned that the warmth could be fatal for some wildlife if there was a cold snap in the next few weeks.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/10/nclimate10.xml

[Greeby]

1. Funny, just went to freezing down here in Milton Keynes

:scared:

[T_i_B]

2. If Milton Keynes is anything like everywhere else

then that'll be about the first time this winter! It's ridiculously mild.