AmericaSpeaks TheVoiceOfJoyce Spring is arriving early from Texas up thru NYC . We’re experiencing temperatures 10 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than seen before. Cherry trees are budding in Washington DC and NYC is seeing daffodils? This isn’t normal and portends a hot summer? I’m going to a Climate Summit in California at the end of March. My reporting on California weather patterns, will be broadcast from there. Stay tuned to my YouTube! TheVoiceOfJoyce. me
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www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/24/early-spring-us-climate-change-record
Spring activity has, meanwhile, arrived at least 20 days earlier than usual for huge swathes of the US south-east and east, with parts of central Texas, south-east Arkansas, southern Ohio and Maryland, along with New York, all recording their earliest spring conditions on record so far this year.
Leaves emerged early across much of the US
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Guardian graphic. Source: The USA National Phenology Network. Note: The map represents the first leafing of early-spring shrubs and other plants as of Feb. 21, 2023.
“It’s a little unsettling, it’s certainly something that is out of the bounds of when we’d normally expect spring,” said Teresa Crimmins, director of the National Phenology Network and an environmental scientist at the University of Arizona. “It perhaps isn’t surprising, given the trajectory our planet is on, but it is surprising when you live through it.”
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Winter has barely registered for millions of people in the US north-east, with states across the New England region all experiencing their warmest January in the 155-year national record. New York City, which experienced more lightning strikes than snowfall in a balmy month, notched an average temperature 10F higher than the long-term average. The Great Lakes, meanwhile, have had a record-low amount of ice coverage during their usual February peak.
