For December overall, 2023 had the third highest monthly gain in the 45-year record at 2.71 million square kilometers (1.05 square miles), behind 2006 at 2.85 million square kilometers (1.10 million square miles) and 2016 at 2.78 million square kilometers (1.07 million square miles).
A lot of this explains why they pushed out the newest USDA Hardiness charts and stopped at 2020. If they had included the winters of 2021, 2022, and 2023 (thru March 2023), they might have had to dial back some of the hardiness zone increases.
It’s -9 in KC with a wind chill of -17 and we’re warmer than a lot of cities tonight.

It’s difficult to find out the temperature of the Earth or Mars but you can determine the temperature of Uranus to within a tenth of a degree.
The Nation that was the biggest Polluter ever was the COMMUNIST Ussr. The biggest Polluter now is the COMMUNIST Chicoms. The NWO wants to kill billions of people. They care NOTH8NG about the Climate, so many usefull idiots help them.
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We were globally warmed to the tune of -24F with a -36F windchill this morning. High of minus effing 4 today.
Just what was the high temperature in Rome on March 15 in 44 BC? How about the morning low temperature in Hastings on October 14, 1066? Just who was monitoring temperatures on the North American continent in the year 1250?How cold was the average temperature during the last Ice Age? Yet we are told last year was the hottest year in millennia. The only reliable surface temperatures for the planet are from satellite data collected only in the last 50 years and without manipulating the numbers there is no warming trend and quite contrary the trend is cooler not warmer.
With temperatures plunging tonight in the Midwest to minus teens and below and typical of these polar vortices winds are relatively calm, how would windmills generate enough electricity to heat homes? The last month has had scant few days of sunlight nixing any serious contribution from solar cell farms to our electric needs. I can only hope that Greta Thunberg is freezing in her bed tonight.
Genesis 8:22
I remember the brutal cold fall and winter of 1976-1977. As bad as it is now. It was used as proof the world was entering THE COMING ICE AGE which was all the rage back then.
We could use some of that Glo-Bull Warming right now! It was -2 at 8 AM this morning.