Women In Ag

[Kay/NC]

After the winter two years ago, I scoffed at the notion of global warming.  So far this fall, we had a coolish November, and the temps are "normal" fifty-ish daytime and 20-30ish at nighttime right now.  By Saturday, the high will be in the seventies, and stay that way at least a couple of days. Sixties until then.  

i remember having a warm spell like this in late February a few years in my lifetime...the kids would shuck off their jackets and play outdoors like it was already spring.  Since March starts our " meteorological spring", that was usually just pushing the season by a week to ten days.  This January warmth is not st all common, though.  I would say it is freakish.

Old folks will say that too warm a winter lets too many germs and vermin survive, and the following year is fraught with illness, mosquito bites, ticks, and I would say mice and other pests, too.  If that's the case, we are in a world of hurt, if things don't return to normal soon. 

Are things unseasonably balmy where you live, too?  Do you notice more problems with bugs and people being sicker than a usual wonter?  We are seeing emergency measures ordering all visitors barred  from some hospitals, othrs limiting visits by children under 18, due to flu outbreaks.