Now I know that local climates can vary wildly, but first of all, the word was that the US northeast was actually going to be getting colder in the near term, because the melting polar water was supposedly going to be pushing the Gulf Stream, which has for millennia warmed the eastern coast of North America, out to sea. But this year, because of the record melting of the Arctic sea ice, the Jet Stream has shifted northward, and the whole of the Lower 48 in the US is missing the usual arctic blasts that get pulled down here when the Jet Stream dips southward during the winter months.
A woman at the local coffee shop was remarking to the barrista that she has humming birds wintering over this year! Now that's really something. Hummingbirds have a metabolism that expends an enormous amount of energy just staying alive. That they could manage to survive through the winter in Philadelphia, at least to mid-January, is nothing short of astounding...
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