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Originally Posted by jezz87
winter ends on March 20th....
This article was posted on March 8th, which means that at most they took into account temperatures stats until March 1st...
Winter is 3 months = 90 days
They remove 20 days out of it so they remove almost 25% of the winter's actual length
How can you jump to conclusion with 25% of the data missing ?
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I agree with you, but the article touches on this. They say
"And it's unlikely any last minute freeze will cut this winter's record down to size. Winter this year ends on March 20, a date that is fast approaching. "
Hopefully it will get really cold before March 20th to help squash this report a little, but its unlikely.
I live in Montreal Canada and winter this year has been almost non existent. It usually snows in late October but this year we didn't get our first snow until just after Christmas. Today only about 10 weeks later it is already +8 celsius (46 Fahrenheit) and tomorrow it will be 13c / 55f. As Dynamo accurately pointed out this is mostly due to El Niņo, Climate change is worsening the effects. They are already predicting that this summer will be the hottest and driest on record. Yikes.