This has been the strangest winter

We had very strange winter as well this year. I'm in central Europe and we usually have cold winters, but not like this. December and january were very mild, then it turned so cold for a few weeks that we didn't have for many decades and wasn't prepared for. I wonder what the real cause of this weather change is.

No snow in the winter is not uncommon, it has to below freezing temperature and enough rain fall or humidity in the air for the snow to form. This time of the year, not having snow is indeed quite nice and consider pleasant to me.

yeah and the money i saved on my heating bill seems to just be going straight to my gas tank now. i need an electric car or a hybrid at the least.

The weather has been strange in Texas too, I mean we din't have much of a winter at all this past year, And it has been so warm and humid here lately and lots of rain which the rain i always welcome here.

The storms are what bother me, so I am going to be one of those people who will take advantage of the situation and set appointments for replacing roofs, siding and windows! What will bother me is based on our states revenue. Both sides of my family are still farming. Minnesota's revenue for the most part comes from agriculture. I am constantly paying attention to the crop situation and crop results. Last year we had a good year so farmers could stock pile money "just in case". The next source of revenue is tourism. We're still OK with that too. 75% of our metro area goes up to the the lakes area of our state. Just think of all the purchasing power going up there for more than groceries and gas! I think so far, so good. I won't start worrying until I see something to worry about!

i live in north carolina and we do not get that much snow. there has been som occasions where we had a huge snow but i only remember like 2 since i ws born. but we usually have atleast 1 snow that sticks to the ground. this year on the other hand we hade a few flurries here that you could barely see and it was at night and of course there was so little of it didnt stick. now there was a good one last month (well kinda) it was snowing really good and it stuck to the deck and the cars and the trash cans but not the roads,grass,driveways, ect. it was gone by 7:00 am the next day with 70 degree weather. i am not sure i have seen weather like this durning the winter. it makes me think what this summer has to bring us because it never was winter here and today we had 80 degree weather. the storms are crazzy also. we had a tornado last spril (and weve never had 2 in this town in the whole 23 alomst 24 yrs i have been alive) and now it seems all the alerts come our way....it will be interesting to see what else can possibly happen with the crazzy weather we have been having...

hiI am in GardenGrpve california and we should not have snow nor should we have morning temps of almost freezing but thats whats been happening from dec right thru march still. it gets warm during the day but the mornings are near freezing and our room was so cold. then gets too warm in the afternoon. go figure weird very weird weather for Southern California for sure.Usually we have cool weather to the fifties but not low forties and high thirties. fruit growers must get nervous but they have smudge pots an wind mill thingies that warm the air around the citrus and other fruit trees.

Yep, mother nature is officially high. It's supposed to be summer here already but it's still raining. The past day, it rained like it's September, and I didn't bring any coats nor umbrellas with me.

Yes Indeed it has been a very warm winter. I live in New York and usually we have pretty cold winters. Last years winter was pretty bad snow after snow the snow barely started to melt and then it snowed again. This wheater is very strange but it is a welcome change.

I agree with you on it being the strangest winter this year. I live in north carolina. This winter was not a really cold winter at all. I only saw it snow one time this winter and it was not even that much. My family and friends told me that we had other ones i just never saw them. But it was never enough to stick to the ground. There was only a few mornings as well that i had frost on the car window. I mean there were some days in the winter that i was wearing some of my summer clothes. I can already see what kind of summer it is going to be. It was just in the 80's yesterday. Its going to be a really really hot summer this year!

All kinds of abnormal winters this year, although here (OK, USA) was about the same as last year: few rain storms, very little snow. Only difference is last year had at least 1 heavy (for here) snow, but this year we got about an inch. Last year's most snow for us was on the first day of Spring, so that was fun. (You think the Central US had fire problems last year? No mountain run-off coming in is going to make this one even worse if the summer rain amounts continue their trend.)