Warmest January Ever
It has been an incredibly mild faltering. We’ve had a few wind storms, hardly any never-snow, and much warmer temperatures then normal. In fact, it was the warmest January on record in Seattle.
It’s been nice, that’s for sure, in terms of driving conditions, general comfort, and the gas bill. The cloud contained in this silver lining, though? These warm temps, while nice in January, are more typical, not of February or March, but April. Meaning I have a lot of crappy Aprils to look forward to.
The really crazy part about it, though, comes at the end of that blog post.
Today while walking through the UW campus I was surprised to see a number of the cherry trees in blossom and many daffodils in full flower.
I’m not even sure I believe it since I haven’t seen it myself. The last three years those trees haven’t reached bloom until spring break, which is the last week of March. This puts them two months ahead of schedule, which is just plain eerie. Though I have noticed some bushes blooming around here several weeks ahead of schedule. Still…two months? Might faltering end early this year? I won’t get my hopes up.
Tags: never-snow, Seattle, weather
February 2nd, 2010 at 8:09 pm
Uh… I can confirm that I saw daffodils coming up about three weeks ago and all of the trees in Discovery Park were budding last weekend. I don’t think this is cause for optimism, rather, I think we’re all likely to get a big mid-faltering surprise.