My hodge-podge day……

For over a month we have been beat about the head and shoulders with the winter weather that has grip some of the states……we have the polar vortex or the Siberian Express or the Alberta Clipper….what ever you want to call these weather patterns…..I mean it is bad enough that we have sunk to given a winter storm a name…..here is my suggestion when this all first started…….”it does not need a name…it already has one……WINTER!”

But that has not made the media ease up any….we have all sorts of disastrous reports of snow, sleet and ice….you know those issue that occur almost every winter…….but this year it is a disaster…….but did you know this?

This may be hard to believe if you live in the Eastern US, but that was the fourth-warmest January ever for the overall planet, the New York Times reports. The Goddard Institute for Space Studies actually pegs it as the third warmest since 1880, behind only 2002 and 2003, according to AccuWeather, which notes GISS data merges land and ocean surface temps. The perpetually storm-afflicted East Coast was indeed one of Earth’s coldest areas compared with seasonal norms, but things were balmy elsewhere; California and Alaska saw temperatures as much as 15 degrees above normal. Besides, the US makes up just 2% of the surface of the world, so its experience paints a limited picture. It’s been unseasonably warm in most of Europe, Africa, Australia, and China. Of course, unseasonable warmth is getting awfully routine; it was the 347th straight month with temperatures above 20th-century averages.

I will not go into the climate change thingy…there are enough people that want to argue about it from all points…..just saying…./it was not as cold as it could have been.  Take that for what it is worth……and good night.