Boston WBZ-TV: "Amazing stretch of weather ahead! Highs in the 60's! Enjoy!"

[Bluebear]

"No arctic air around, everyone enjoy! Amazingly mild and unheard of! Enjoy this, it's incredible!"

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Heaven forbid they approach the story from the perspective that we may have really done it regarding Mother Earth. December was the warmest month on record here, we have trees budding out and the news media can only comment how folks are now able to wear short sleeves on January 2nd.

[valerief]

1. It's really, really creepy weather. End of the world weather. nt

[MUAD_DIB]

2. My indoor plants are all screwed up. This is not good.

It needs to be cold now. Warm is bad. It throws everything off balance.

[Warpy]

3. Or that it's due to the bitter cold and snow out west!

This country usually oscillates between warm/cold in the west and cold/warm in the east, year round.

It had better change soon, this SUCKS out west.

[seabeyond]

4. panhandle of texas has been bbbbrrr cold. we have had three snows

last year no snow and 50's, 60's and some 70's. i have always seen the weather shift around in the winter. osmetimes we are dumped on and it is cold. sometimes just cold. and sometimes, like last year it is a very gentle winter.

are you saying it is never like that in boston. it is just always a cold and harsh winter? or do you find some winters not as harsh as others

and enoy your weather, cause we are freezing our ass off

[Bluebear]

6. It has never been like this here.

I was watching the 5pm news, obviously, but the anchors and the weatherman all consider it some kind of bonanza rather than something that should at least pique their reporting curiosity that something is amiss!

[kimmerspixelated]

5. It has been an awful long stretch

of springy temps, so it is hard not to believe that GWarming isn't the cause, but also I have heard that fluctuations in temps have been normal in weather patterns, however, I think that when winter does really arrive, it will be a whopper!

[annabanana]

7. The weather bobble-heads have their orders. . .

No mention anymore of "record high/low for this date" or the day's "average" and how much above or below it we are on any given day. .

There will be NO INTIMATION AT ALL that cherry blossoms shouldn't be out in January.. or that daffodils really ought to be hibernating. . .

If they slip up and tell you it creeps them out too. . they're out on their well-toned asses.

[LisaM]

8. Did you hear ultra-conservative Al Michaels in Chicago Sunday?

It was about 60 degrees, and he opened the broadcast by saying something along the lines of, "Well, scientists haven't agreed on whether global warming exists or not, but it's 60 degrees in Chicago in December!"

I just about fell off my chair. That guy is a jackass, but I really don't like that he used a national football game as a platform for his loony ravings on climate change.

[azmouse]

9. It's odd alright. The high temps here in Phoenix

averaged 2 degrees LOWER than normal. The weather is all screwed up.

[MADem]

10. I really don't know if I want to hear the weatherguy or gal giving me a lecture on global warming

They're hairsprayed and pancaked human robots, there to tell you to take your umbrella or not forget your boots and gloves. I don't want them standing in for Al Gore, actually. They are hired to smile and say "OOOh, weeeeeee....windy day in Boston today! Bundle up!" or "Take your time on the drive home...black ice!"

if we're going to hear from anyone, I'd rather hear from experienced reporters who know how to cover a story in depth. Unfortunately, there aren't too many of those around, either....

[Bluebear]

12. Yes, that was the point. Why not assign an experienced reporter

and report?

[MADem]

16. I agree, it is certainly overdue...

I guess they're too afraid to face the tough issues...the gas guzzler vs. sustainable environment type choices that will have to be made. The sad thing is, even small measures would help, but we're unmotivated as a society to do anything at all, it seems.

[frazzledmom]

13. Like Willard Scott today using Denver and Colorado to claim

that global warming doesn't exist. You know that actual lack of scientific knowledge on this subject is astonishing. It being exceptionally cold or warm somewhere does not mean that Global Warming does or doesn't exist. Global Warming is a fact. Just because I had to shovel 3 feet of snow in the last 2 weeks doesn't change the fact.

[Crunchy Frog]

20. In Colorado, it doesn't have to be cold to snow.

We can get two feet dumped on us in the middle of April, and 60° the next day. (I'm not currently in Colorado, so I don't know how cold it actually is right now, just that lots of snow doesn't mean shit.)

[lapfog_1]

11. This is an El Nino year (mild El Nino).

Which should mean more water for CA and the Pacific Northwest.

However, to be useful for CA, the water that falls has to be in the form of snowpack in the Sierras...

And this is from the CA DWR

Statewide Average SWEQ 6" 6"
Statewide Percent of April 1 22% 21%
Statewide Percent of Normal 66% 64%


We are only at 66 percent of normal for THIS TIME OF YEAR. And this is a wet year. 6" of snow water equivalence.
That ain't gonna do it. In an El Nino year, we should be well over 100 % snowpack for this time of year. We are getting the water, but it's not snow. Worse, as we get into our "heavy" rain months of Feb and March, if the temps remain high, the rain could easily cause an early snow melt of what snow pack we have.

[matcom]

14. well *I* am going to enjoy going to work on my scooter the next few days

:bounce:

[Renew Deal]

15. Global Warming ROCKS!!!

Same thing in NY. I have a feeling we're going to pay for this dearly.

[Bluebear]

17. Normal high for today in Boston is 37 . . .

not 60!

:wow:

[ariellyn]

19. I hope we don't pay this summer. n/t

[madrchsod]

18. no it`s "get used to it"!

we are having a cold spell here in northern illinois-it`s 37 degrees...

[WinkyDink]

21. In my 57 years, I don't think there's ever been a snow-less October-->December

in Pennsylvania---until now.