Thread: 'Early Spring' ?

or 'False Spring' ?

Short-lived cold snaps, 70 degree highs predicted thru Jan 25th, water temp in the low 60s just offshore, etc...

How is this manifesting in the outlook for the rest of the winter (next 9 weeks til March 21)?

Please pick one and post why (we don't have polls :-(

Winter will be 'warmer than average'

Winter will be 'average'

Winter will be 'cooler than average'

Mguess is warmer than averagel Like, like, like!

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/product...ge/fxus05.html

According to the weather folks, we've got a La Nina pattern developing, so the odds favor warmer weather and drier weather across the south for the next 90 days. Which means, basically, beans. But it has been warmer and my guess is it will be drier. Another good year to have hay for sale.

Maybe.

Im going with Winter will be warmer, basically because last year Winter was so freakin cold. The weather patterns seem to swing drastically from year to year the past four or five years. I do not think it will be an overly cold winter, at all.

warmer than average...my reasoning, global warming : oke1:

I will agree with warmer.

Think I'm going to get the tiller out early this year. Although, I happen to recall last time we had a winter start out this way, a blizzard nailed the southeast in mid april... I was caught in 12 feet of snow at someone's apartment in Knoxville, TN, for two weeks--was back in the mid 1990s.

the snow in ala was in 93, in march, if it was the same blizzard :angry:

It does seem that a bitter winter has less snow, and a warmer season can suddenly dump a batch of snow but that's about as scientific as my stinking but lucky fishing socks.

Dunno - but here's the averages:

Gulf Coast Average Daily Temperatures
Month Daily Max. Daily Min. Monthly Avg. Water
January 57.5 43.5 50.5 55
February 60.4 46.3 53.4 57
March 66.7 54.3 60.5 64
April 74.4 62.7 68.5 69
May 81.3 69.7 75.5 76
June 86.5 75.3 81.1 82
July 89.0 76.6 82.8 84
August 88.6 76.9 82.8 85
September 85.4 73.8 78.6 81
October 77.5 64.8 71.2 74
November 69.1 55.8 62.5 65
December 61.7 48.2 55.0 57
Year 74.9 62.3 68.6 70.75
Temperatures compiled from data furnished by the Southeast Agricultural Weather Service Center. Water temperatures furnished by the Dauphin Island Sea Lab.

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the snow in ala was in 93, in march, if it was the same blizzard :angry:
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Yeah, I am sure it was the same blizzard. I probably remember April because it was April before I was able to leave those people's house. Haha