It’s in the 30’s here (F) and if I only have to be outside for less than 5 or 10 minutes at a time I’m not even bothering with a jacket. We joke every year that the exact same temperature that has us reaching for our warmest outerwear in November/December has us reaching for our shorts by the end of February/beginning of March.
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We’re the South column, but change inches for centimetres.
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It’s melting here, has been for most of the week. The long range forecast is above freezing for the next 14 days. I can see patches of grass already. T-shirt weather! 
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Yep. Last two days I’ve left the coat at home.
If it actually did get cold or wet, that is what the coat behind the seat under all the other crap in the truck is for.
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This is the kicker: if it stays warm past the next 14 days (which is increasingly likely after mid-March), this will be the earliest spring we’ve ever seen hereabouts - it has been hovering at or slightly above the freezing point for over a week now. Spring never starts in February in Ottawa; it often enough doesn’t really start until April.
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We came back to Toronto on Feb. 6, got about 30cm of snow over the next few days, followed by a spell of milder weather and rain, and now several days of temperatures in the double digits. All the snow, including the metre-high drifts where we had shoveled the driveway or the snowplows had been, has completely gone. Today was 13°C and bright sunshine. It’s like winter and spring compressed into three weeks.
As a Canadian, though, I’m obliged to add, “Yeah, but we’ll pay for this.”
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Hard to say. This is reminding me of the spring of roughly 5 years ago - I recall going to Orangeville through Toronto at the end of the first week of March, and there was no snow from roughly Belleville on (and very little here as well).
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On the West Coast the new normal is “forest fires all summer long.”
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Mr. Kidd saw a robin yesterday. The crocus have sprouted. The trees are getting fuzzy with buds. Spring is here. Early.
I’m a little worried though, because this is how we get tornados in March. In Michigan.
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Well, I shall take a certain guilty pleasure in the weather, but I have never seen spring this early before. That is worrisome enough as it is.
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It’s snowing in Dublin! (I was supposed to go to Galway today but that didn’t happen because of the red alert.)
This is what it was looking like just before dawn this morning:
And I thought Californians were bad about weather!
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Wow. I think I’ve defrosted more snow/ice from my freezer than is shown in the whole of that picture.
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Red Alert, can’t go anywhere until the Guinness has all been drank. 
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16°C and sunny in TO today. Tomorrow’s forecast for Southern Ontario is a “high impact winter storm with the potential for snowfall totals to reach 15-25+ cm of wet snow”. So it goes.
Meanwhile, in UK snow news:
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Huh! In the next 14 days, we have a few days where about 1 cm is predicted, but the highs are all above freezing, so I don’t expect anything will stick.
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It looks now as if the worst of the storm will hit Hamilton and the Niagara region, passing safely south of here. Toronto’s magic force field bubble FTW!
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We’re not so lucky. At some point it will stop raining here, then it will start snowing. My weather site says 5-8” (13-20 cm). Cardinals arrived yesterday, silly birdies.
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Raining hard here.
Can we please get all the idiots out of public office ASAP so we can put grown-ups in charge again?
It’s going to be hard – and expensive – to fix everything these guys have broken (hopefully not beyond repair).
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One of six (out of 24 19) of the lower league games to survive.
But just a few miles north
It’s not as bad as 1963 though
http://twohundredpercent.net/the-196263-season-when-winter-came-and-stayed/
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