snaowstud said:
NO, this is not normal, guess you glossed over my response above. The RIDGE has been PERSISTENT since last Winter, this could turn out to be warmer than last winter, IMO. The pattern change is 15 days away and will be tomorrow and the next day. And you think we had a "warm" nose last week, wait till the next threat comes if any, the upper levels are so hot, if this was July or August we would be 105 or higher.
Yeah this is simply not true. My dad, who is just a few years younger than you, says that he's seen mild periods all the time in the south in the winter, and he has never lived in Florida. Now to this extent for the past couple days is absolutely unbelievable in January (and I don't think I ever remember it happening until now, but I have seen it happen in December...and not just in 2015) but no, days in the mid 60s to 70 have popped up all of the time in January over the years.
Cold weather is simply never going to completely stick around in the Southeast. Even the monster cold snap of January 2014...it began to moderate immediately after the day it really bottomed out and after two days it was already back to around normal temps.