Where Did Winter Go?

I decided about halfway through "winter" to start checking out the highs and lows each day. If you live in the Cincinnati-ish area and nearby, you've probably noticed its been a little warm. And we haven't seen much of that white stuff. No, Lindsay Lohan, the frozen white stuff. Someone with more eco-knowledge or meteorological savvy might know what to do with this data and find some sort of correlation to... you know, melting polar ice caps or tsunamis or some interesting stuff like that. I just have a thing for statistics and trends. So here are the highs and lows for each day since winter began on December 21st.


                 High       Low

12/21         60           48 

12/22         48           40

12/23         40           34

12/24         41           26

12/25         52           29

12/26         45           24

12/27         40           35

12/28         38           28

12/29         52           31

12/30         55           44

12/31         46           37  

1/1             55           32  

1/2             33           19  

1/3             27           15  

1/4             40           17  

1/5             50           23  

1/6             59           40  

1/7             52           37  

1/8             45           29  

1/9             51           33  

1/10           54           28  

1/11           49           37 

1/12           45           16 

1/13           20           15 

1/14           29           18  

1/15           32           11 

1/16           55           25  

1/17           58           31 

1/18           32           22

1/19           37           22  

1/20           29           16 

1/21           30           24  

1/22           53           26 

1/23           58           39  

1/24           39           29  

1/25           38           28 

1/26           51           35 

1/27           41           34 

1/28           41           30 

1/29           46           24  

1/30           57           20  

1/31           60           47  

2/1             62           46

2/2             54           35

2/3             55           33

2/4             47           39

2/5             48           32

2/6             50           23

2/7             39           28

2/8             36           31

2/9             36           28

2/10           33           27

2/11           32           14

2/12           35           13

2/13           35           16

2/14           37           31

2/15           48           33

2/16           49           38

2/17           51           27

2/18           51           28

2/19           39           27

2/20           45           19

2/21           50           32

2/22           57           36

2/23           56           33

2/24           51           32

2/25           37           22

2/26           51           21

2/27           60           31

2/28           59           28

2/29           67           49

3/1             55           37

3/2             62           39

3/3             45           33

3/4             40           27

3/5             38           25

3/6             63           24

3/7             69           42

3/8             61           36

3/9             47           32

3/10           54           27

3/11           68           36

3/12           64           52

3/13           74           56

3/14           78           47

3/15           76           57

3/16           67           54

3/17           76           53

3/18           79           57

3/19           81           58

Anything below freezing in the 30's is highlighted in yellow, below freezing in the 20s is green, below freezing in the teens is blue. And as you'll notice, we didn't have a low in the single digits all winter. At least not according to The National Weather Service, where I got all my information. I hope it's right. It sounds right. It felt like the temperatures those days. You'll also notice we had a mere 8 days where the high was below freezing.

Any temperatures we had above 60 I highlighted in orange, and any in the 70s were highlighted in red. Like I said, these numbers might be a little inaccurate by a few degrees, but I'd be willing to bet they're pretty darn close. And again, this isn't some sort of eco-attack or anything. Simply an interesting observation of the warming trend and lack of frozen precipitation we saw all season. I wonder how this will affect the rest of the year. Could this be a year we set all kinds of high temperature records? I hope not, cause I just leased an apartment with a window unit air-conditioner in it, and I can't afford a high electric bill.

Today's Twitter bio goes to: @DopplerTim @JohnGumm @Bouts12 and @ScottDimmich

I planned on getting to the Local 12 Weather team at some point. This seemed like a good time to do it. All four members of this team do a great job getting the best, fastest, and most accurate weather information to the viewers. They're constantly and tirelessly working to be better than they already are. (Trust me, they're always asking for new equipment). But to their credit, they don't let any of their skills or equipment go to waste.

The day we had the huge, massive crazy weather day (which happened to be my birthday) They worked round the clock to get the most important and up-to-date information to those most affected. They were also able to use some of their most state-of-the art gadgets, like the app from the iPad, to help better inform viewers.

If you need weather information, which will be gained most quickly from Twitter, look no farther than the Weather Authority Four. I can nearly guarantee that should you need to know about a big weather event in the area, at any time of the day, at least one of them has tweeted about it in the past hour or two. Also follow the @Local12Alerts page for even more up-to-date weather alerts. There's a reason they're the Weather Authority. They're very good at what they do.