Record Warm Winter for Northern Europe

Icebreakers sit idle in ports. Insects crawl out of forest hideouts. Daffodils sprout up from green lawns.

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Russia Weathers a Disturbing Warm Winter

It was one of Russia's traditional days for taking a dip and swimmers were complaining — because it was too warm outside. Countless Russians every year mark the Orthodox Epiphany religious feast by plunging into water through holes in the ice and shivering vigorously in the frigid air. On Friday, the ice was either thin or absent and the air wasn't especially cold.

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Parts of U.S. Experience Warm Winter

Crocuses are pushing out of the ground in New Jersey. Ice fishing tournaments in Minnesota are being canceled for lack of ice. And golfers are hitting the links in Chicago in January. Much of the Midwest and the East Coast are going through a remarkably warm winter, with temperatures running 10 and 20 degrees higher than normal in many places.

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It has now become all too common.

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Frogs and other animals that usually hibernate in winter may be very weak by spring because of this winter's balmy temperatures, says an Ottawa researcher. Frogs usually spend the winter frozen in the mud, hibernating to conserve energy. (CBC) Professor Ken Storey, who studies  …

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Reuters reports that unseasonably warm temps in Europe means that, in addition to poor skiiking, "bears are having trouble hibernating in Siberia." Record rain (and lows) in Seattle. Snow in central Texas. Balmy weather in NYC.

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OK, maybe it felt like winter outside on a blustery Thanksgiving Day, with temperatures barely getting out of the 30s. Remember? This is the way it's supposed to feel in late November.

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