Please KNOCK ON WOOD NOW! With global warming what you get is more extremes
in weather (which most people don't seem to understand for some odd reason)
which means you could easily get the same weather we are having next week.
I believe it was 54 degrees here a couple of weeks ago... I was off in CA
visiting family so I can't say from my own experience. I'm now sitting by
my little space heater watching the snow fall. At least it has warmed up
and the winding isn't howling today.

DKat

"Brian" wrote in message
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In the UK this has been an exceptionally mild winter and feel so sorry for
those of you in the US with such freezing weather.
Locally [Cornwall SW] we had 250 out-of-season species flowering on New
Year's day [figures from local paper] not counting those remaining from
last
year~~ Roses,fuchsias, chrysanthemums, cyclamens and lilies etc. Roadsides
have miles of full flowering gorse.
All of the UK is well above the 50 degree latitude and without the Gulf
Stream would be similar to mid Canada~~ though without Polar Bears!
I hope your Spring is not too far away.
Best Wishes.