In the Middle Atlantic, the forecast as far out as it goes, shows no real winter weather in sight.

[Stinky The Clown]

Much of the US seems to be having a pretty benign Winter so far. The normally snowy regions have what looks to me like late Autumn snowfall amounts, not the kinds of snows that are normal for Winter.

1816 is seen in history as the "Year Without a Summer." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer

Will 2011-2012 be the (first?) Year Without A Winter?

[justiceischeap]

1. I don't know, day before yesterday in Northern VA was downright cold.

That seems pretty wintery to me.

[Stinky The Clown]

12. Yup . . . a few stray days here and there of winter-like weather.

There are always exceptions.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Hey, that works for me.

[RebelOne]

3. I'll take a year without summer. Hate summer. I should live in Alaska instead of Georgia. n/t

[Kingofalldems]

4. I like it!

I am also seeing quite a few robins who stayed for the winter.

[onehandle]

5. Got down to ten degrees here outside of Philly the night before last.

We also got six inches of snow on Halloween, which even freaked out the natives here.

Not saying the forecast is wrong, I'm saying that there are clearly going to be extreme swings here and there.

[limpyhobbler]

6. i'm lovin the global warming.

This is the mildest winter I can remember. central ohio.

[XemaSab]

7. This is not good

Here in Redding we've had no rain this month when the average to date is .95, we got .38 inches in December when the average is 6.27, and we got 2.62 inches in November when the average is 4.48.

Since July 1, we've had 6.33 inches when the average is 14.53, so that's less than half the amount of normal rainfall, most of which fell over two months ago!

The storm gates could open and bring us buckets of rain, but there's nothing in the forecast.

Here's the snowpack:

[Stinky The Clown]

13. Pretty damned meager, it seems

Do you have a similar picture from a year that was more normal?

[The Genealogist]

8. It has been a pretty oddly mild winter

Our local snowfall for December was .4 inches. I've seen more snow fall than that in an hour in December before. Today, January 5th, it is already in the mid-50s when normal is about 42. It has been in the 50s and 60s a lot during late autumn and early winter. However, the local tee-vee meteorologist said that some arctic oscillation was changing and by next week, and for several weeks, we would be getting a lot colder temps.

[Odin2005]

9. Supposed to hit 50F in Fargo today, normal high is 12F.

[Nictuku]

10. Yesterday Afternoon, SF Bay Area hit 67

.... in January. I've never seen it that warm here before in January.

[XemaSab]

18. It's supposed to be 68 this weekend in Redding

I know y'all probably think that we're a year-round furnace up here, but our winters are typically cold and rainy. The average max for early January is 55, and the average min is 35. The record high for January 7th is 72!

[taught_me_patience]

11. 88 in Long Beach yesterday. An all time record

We haven't had rain in a long time too. It's a really mild winter so far.

[Mira]

14. It's Obama's gift to the poor

American Heating Cost Assistance

[Akoto]

15. We've been having one hell of a cold blast here in South Florida.

It was actually enough to put our fireplace to use over the last two nights.

[Stinky The Clown]

16. True, but where were you over the Chrismas holiday?

Well above normal, no? The current cold is a blip in an otherwise (so far) abnormally warm winter.

[Akoto]

17. Well, to be fair ...

I'm 26 and have lived in the same city on the east coast all my life. A cold Christmas is really not the norm here. We've always had blasts of cold and then back to the heat.

To my recollection, Christmas this year was pretty temperate, low humidity.

Anything is better than hurricane season.

EDIT: Of course, the climate gets very different but a few hours away. It's often a lot colder around Lake Okechobee (they've had a hard freeze warning these last two days). My aunt lives in Ocala, a while northwest of me, and she gets snow. I've never seen snow!