I'll say it again, this the warmest winter of my life.

[RandySF]

It's been about eight years since I left frozen Michigan and moved to Northern California, and, outside of one frigid week, is the warmest and driest winter I've ever experienced.

[X_Digger]

1. Pour some more salt on this cut, you missed a spot :P

Not really, I'm in Texas, so we've also had a drier (if not extremely cold) winter so far.

[femmocrat]

2. Rub it in, why don't ya?

We are freezing back east!

[SoCalDem]

5. Last week, our A/C turned on

I usually have the thermostat off except at night & must have accidentally pushed it down one too many clicks & about noon it kicked on the A/C.. Personally, I would LOVE for it to be "normal" again.. We desperately need rainy cool cloudy days like we used to have 30 years ago.. It used to start raining in Nov & end in April.. We used to have LOTS of rain in the winter

[Skittles]

16. you want I should kick some taunting RandySF ass, femmocrat?

LEMME AT HIM!!!

[Bjorn Against]

3. And here in Minnesota it has been one of the coldest winters ever

On Monday and Tuesday this week it got down to -20 and that is not even including wind chill.

[GP6971]

4. Here in western WA

A much dryer January.

[adirondacker]

15. -28 night before last. I remember -40 and two week episodes of below zero weather as a kid though.

There is a benefit that it kills off a lot of invasive plants, insects and viruses that migrate from warmer zones.

I'm ready for an early and mild spring though.

[tridim]

6. How are you dealing with the no seasons thing?

This mid-west winter sucks, but it's going to make spring extra awesome!

[arcane1]

7. Me too. I should be complaining about my wet-and-windy commute every day.

Instead, I am loving the weather, whilst simultaneously feeling guilty and apprehensive.

[kwassa]

8. Having lived on both coasts, and somewhat in the middle part ...

A general rule of thumb is:

If it is unusually wet on one coast, it is unusually dry on the other coast.

If it is unusually warm on one coast, it is unusually cold on the other coast.

This is the coldest winter in the east in a long time.

I also remember a seven-year drought when I lived in California, that broke in late '94, as I recall , with really big snows in '95. I remember many lakes being way down below the normal shoreline, like Lake Shasta and Lake Isabella. I went skiing at Mammoth Lakes for many years on man-made, or low natural amounts of snow. In '95, there was a 15-foot base of snow on the ground and the resort stayed open through the July 4th weekend.

[flamingdem]

9. I have only needed heat for a few days in Socal

Lovely, but way too dry.

[Brother Buzz]

10. For this native Northern Californian, it's not the warmest, but certainly the driest

Back in the mid eighties I remember a long stretch of eighty degree temps in January. I was complied to wear short sleeves and shorts, it was that hot and the reason I remember it. This season, I've worn short sleeves a bit but have not broken out the shorts.....yet.

[bmbmd]

11. It was cold as hell, eh

when I lived in Montana in the eighties. This seems to be the longest, coldest winter I've ever spent in Texas. Maybe I'm just getting older.

[susanr516]

19. I'm a native Texan

It has been decades since it has been consistently cold for so long. We haven't had record-breaking cold, like '83 and '89, but it's been cold almost every day since mid-December. I think the winter of 78-79 was the worst, but this one is on track to be #2.

[kestrel91316]

12. I've been in SoCal over 30 years and we are wrapping up the warmest

AND DRIEST January I've ever seen here.

Sweater weather almost all month - jackets completely unnecessary except evenings. Turned the heat off here and at the office weeks ago.

[cherokeeprogressive]

18. Snow Summit and Bear Mountain (BARE Mountain this year) are getting ready to close.

The ONLY snow left in Bear Valley is the snow that was made by the resorts.

Dallas Raines said we MIGHT get a dusting this weekend.

Big Bear Lake is something like eight feet low, and after the summer's evap will be at least four feet lower than that. Believe it or not, the lake brings more people up the hill than the slopes. Gonna be a hard year for ALL the businesses in the valley.

[NutmegYankee]

13. Are you getting rain?

As for temps, I moved to Conn. from the southeast because I hated the heat/humidity. I can hack a winter like this no problem. And since the furnace is keeping up with temps as low as -9, I'm all set.

[Jamaal510]

14. IDK about warm

because temperatures have been cool overall around coastal Humboldt, but it has been strangely dry no doubt. When I went back home to the Bay for winter break late last month, it only rained about 1 day the whole time I was out there. Even up here in Arcata, they're saying that rainfall is less than 50% of average. It just rained a little yesterday and earlier today, though, so that broke up the monotony of dry days around here.

[libodem]

17. We have been living under a cold gray inversion

For the last 3 weeks. It has been between 25-29°night and day. The freezing rain we got today is supposed to chase it out of here. This has been a real crappy winter.