Most "Evers"...EVER!

The global extremes just continue rolling along.  Ever since we started watching for the word "ever"....we have not been disappointed, and yesterday's incredibly hot weather across the upper Midwest gave us a whole slough full of "evers".

It was 68 degrees in Mitchell, South Dakota yesterday.  That didn't just break the all time high for January 5th....it SHATTERED it by 17 degrees.  As our local weatherman said, "We are witnessing a once in a lifetime weather event!"

More than 300 record high temperatures were set in 21 U.S. states Thursday. But the heart of the unusual warmth concentrated in Plains, where some areas experienced temperatures 40 degrees above average.

Several locations set all-time January record high temperatures, including Huron (65 degrees) and Mitchell (68 degrees) in South Dakota (SD) and Minot (61 degrees), Fargo (55 degrees) and Jamestown (56 degrees) in North Dakota.

What distinguishes this warm spell is the amount by which some records were broken. Consider Rapid City, SD hit 73, obliterating the old record by 13 degrees. (That 73 degree high temperature was 4 above the high temperature of 69 in Miami, Fl). Aberdeen, SD reached 63, smashing the old record of 46 by 17 degrees and setting a new monthly record.

AccuWeather highlighted the following incredible record: “...in Philip, S.D., the mercury reached a balmy 74 degrees, which absolutely obliterated the old record of 46 set back in 2002.”

Across the U.S., almost one thousand high temperature records have been broken or tied this January, and more than 1,400 in the last week.

Wunderground’s Jeff Masters led his daily column this way: Flowers are sprouting in January in New Hampshire, the Sierra Mountains in California are nearly snow-free, and lakes in much of Michigan still have not frozen. It’s 2012, and the new year is ringing in another ridiculously wacky winter for the U.S.

Here;  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/plains-bask-in-historic-record-warm-weather/2012/01/06/gIQAZleBfP_blog.html

I don't know if this is God's way of paying back us Minnesotans for last years MOST MISERABLE WINTER ON RECORD....but if it is then I say "Thank you, God!"

However, lets remember the potential HUGE downside to all this warm weather with NO SNOW....no crops will grow next spring unless we get some rain...and here in MN it hasn't rained since August, which means we are currently experiencing the driest fall and winter EVER!!

No crops=Famine....which Jesus clearly told us was one of the conditions to watch for.