Thank goodness. This is great. I'm no happy for those in the ski business but I could do this type of winter every year.

I know it means our collective impending doom but my utility bills could use the break.

I'm not mad. I'll shovel sunshine all day too.

Can't say it's been my ideal winter, but, then again, my ideal winter would always feature a two foot snowstorm in November and not a single day above freezing afterwards until the middle of March, so ...

Please nobody jinx it.

This is like highly-specific sports stats

And then a noreaster in march dumping about 3' of snow. Followed by spring.

I can't wait for warming allows us to grows more plants. It's going to be sick

The way it should be

How was it the week prior haha?

I love it but concerned for the planet

Then another middle finger to Phil storm of at least 8" taking false spring into spring.

I hate it. I like my winters cold and snowy, and not as a sign of humanity's failure to take care of its world.

This sucks. At this rate, I’ll be mowing the lawn in February.

We still have to get through February.

I keep having to remind myself it's winter. I am not complaining.

Same.

5th warmest

And you know someone will point to 1932 and go “see, it was warm then too”

Can’t lie. I thought about going out today and give it a buzz.

But there were 4 other winters that were more mild dating back nearly 90 years ago. I wouldn't worry too much. The weather is and always has been cyclic and unpredictable but I'm ready for some snow.

Ummm yeah it was?

I mean that may be the case for PA, but there’s still some plenty to worry about in terms of the environment

Only 5th? We can do better than that!

(sets pile of coal on fire, lets huge lifted truck idle 24/7)

I’m with you- oil is done compared to earlier this year but it’s still steep.

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I’m still not over the -14 windchill we had the weeks between Christmas & New Years

I literally moved here from AZ to have cold, snowy winters :/

Yes but three of them are in the last 30 years. It’s an upward trend.

Or you will just have wicked cold snaps later in the season wiping out any perceived gains. There will be a couple decades or more of the poles throwing off crazy cold spikes as they melt at unpredictable rates. It's already happening.

At least you won't have to mow it in July, because it'll be on fire.

Well we still have water at least... Arizona seems to be struggling, so it's still a net positive? (I'm from California so every day my house isn't on fire it's a win!)

Thanks goodness for global warming. We need all the break we can get to help Europe and Ukraine right now.

I remember seeing a graphic a few years ago that in 2050 the climate in Philly would be roughly equivalent to Norfolk today. And basically everywhere else across the country sees similar migration. Cold snowy winters are over.

It'll be fun to find out

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Same. I'm so damn jaded that I'll just consider it good news.

I think 2007 was the year I only had to put on the outer shell of my jacket for a 2.5 day period in early February.

It was warm then too!

What does it all mean, Basil?

Having fresh water is huge. CA and the SW isn't the only region drying out.

Hell yeah.

If PA could stay between 35 and 85 degrees year round, that would be fine.

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I'm a cold lover and literally no heat running all season long. I can't tell you how much I save.

Global temps are on average rising. We are looking at long term trends.

We are fucked. We had a chance to fix this. It was over 50 years ago when the oil companies hid it for profit. Now? It's damage control.

As expected with climate change models. More mild, but when we get cold, it gets really fucking cold.

I'm so tired. It's basic long term trends it's not hard to understand. One off outliers arent what we look for when studying climate.

It was following climate change models, just as predicted. Why?

So January has been cooling down since 1932. Guess global warming is out the door.

That would be really, really bad. Our local ecosystem relies on winters.

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Funny, it hasn't seemed that warm to me. Yes, the first two days of the year were warm, but after that it got pretty cold.

Guys it’s still pretty cold at night so like, relax. /s

To each their own. I believe we've already sailed past the tipping point and we're fucked. So I'm embracing the change, having no children, and flying out of this life, whenever it takes me, with as much dopamine extracted as possible.

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I want the cold to kill all the bugs. Now when spring comes there will be ticks and skeeters everywhere!

The winter of 2006-2007 was quite mild for December and most of January, but was actually well below normal for February. At least here in Pittsburgh it was.

I'm only surprised it's not #1.

Same. I walked my in-laws outside and said "Shit, guess I gotta cut the grass."

I'd say recorded history

The average temperature is going down on that chart.

Reading the comments it looks like people can't read charts. If you would graph that the average highest temperature in that time point is falling not rising. It's getting colder.

Yeah, plentiful fresh water and a lack of serious natural disasters (aside from a few localized landslides) means we're probably getting a lot of climate refugees from the sun belt in the coming decades.

global warming is terrible, i miss the cold days, like, it only snowed THREE DAYS all winter.

Literally the only good thing about climate change. That and Florida.

Ugh, I hate that we have to save Florida. Can we fix climate change and still get rid of Florida? Is that an option?

Weather vs Climate. Two different things.

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90 year trend?

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Nope are you?

I keep trying to tell the people who ask me "why on earth did you move here?!"