Snow, what there was of it this year, is almost gone from the ground.
The temperature is expected to top 60 degrees at least twice next week and – with the exception of a very cold Friday night and Saturday – rise above freezing every day into the second week in March.
The temperature has not dipped below 20 degrees here for almost a year. And if the extended forecast is right, it’s not going to be that cold at least through almost mid-January.
And, maybe most notably, the Town of Tonawanda, which used to ban overnight parking on its streets until April 1, lifted the ban with a week to go in February.
Welcome to what may go down as the warmest winter in the history of record-keeping in Western New York, one that people who study the weather and climate say could be a microcosm of seasons to come.
The record-setting probability was first reported this week by WGRZ meteorologist Patrick Hammer, who said this “meteorological winter” – defined as the months of December, January and February – is on track to be the warmest since data has been kept in 1939.
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