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A friend from farther south--after complaining about how cold it was where he is--asked me if we were having a brutal winter.

I said that it was actually a fairly normal winter up here. It's just that everyone else, from Texas to England and Florida to Ireland, appeared to be sharing our winter.

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Actually, we usually have more varying temperatures....as usual, we didn't get below freezing for more than a few days in a row until late Dec., but we've been there for 3 weeks now -- usually there's more variance in temp in January, and in general in this time of the year.

Yes, but it's all entirely within the range of what people up here deal with, year to year, as opposed to being wildly shocking to them.

There was one winter a few years back where the snow cover started in mid-December and didn't leave until March. I spent most of it at work. :/

Yep, I feel like I'm back in Boston. :)

(Still not bad enough to trot out the FULL winter gear I am capable of; it's only gone down to the teens, 0's with wind chill, so far. I still remember that week where it was -20 and by the time you got to Davis T stop you couldn't feel your thighs... through jeans + long underwear... that was awe-inspiring.)

But I saw this great map a few days ago-- can't remember where-- showing the temperatures in terms of deviation from norm rather than as absolutes, and you could see this frigid mass hovering over the midwest and down to Florida, and over in Britain and across to Mongolia. Some kind of freaky arctic inversion. But yeah, this mass bypassed New England entirely, it's too far south-- NE was more or less normal.

I've been gathering the impression that New England is having, if anything, a winter that's just a bit on the mild side. For instance, last week when it was 30F here in Houston, the radio show I listen to on my drive in had a guy call in from Maine to say that it was warmer there, at 32F -- which at 9am on a day in early January is practically unseasonably warm for Maine.

Similarly, it was bizarre to fly down to Atlanta last weekend and find it colder there (particularly on Friday afternoon when I arrived) than in Boston.

Yes. You can have it back any time you want.

I still remember that week where it was -20 and by the time you got to Davis T stop you couldn't feel your thighs... through jeans + long underwear... that was awe-inspiring.

Yes! Perhaps that was the week

bedfull_o_books reminded me of tonight. She opened the apartment door and the heat came out of the apartment in a great cloud. Amazing.

But I saw this great map a few days ago-- can't remember where-- showing the temperatures in terms of deviation from norm rather than as absolutes, and you could see this frigid mass hovering over the midwest and down to Florida, and over in Britain and across to Mongolia.

I don't know if you originally saw it here, or if it's even the map you're thinking of, but if so I've left it in an easy to find place. :)

ha ha ha! May very well have been. Now I am highly amused. :)

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