I have fresh dill growing in my garden. Outside. In December. In Michigan.

[Siwsan]

So I dug it up and re-potted it.

I'm now starting to worry that my daffs will start peeking up, through the soil.

Two years ago, at this time, I was freezing my way through a week long power outage, after a major ice storm. My house was so cold that I didn't lose anything from the refrigerator or freezer. You could see your breath in my livingroom.

Last year we were experiencing lots of cold and snow. We never actually had a snow melt until Spring.

This year I'm outside in shirt sleeves, digging up baby dill plants.

[Vinca]

1. That's amazing! I should check my garden tomorrow. I bet there's catnip out there.

It's supposed to get close to 70 in southern NH!

[Siwsan]

5. I also have fresh catnip!

I remember one year when my daffs were in bloom at the end of February. I thought that was freaky. I should go check the forsythia, tomorrow.

[notadmblnd]

16. Your Forsythia will have buds.

I used to cut mine in Jan or so, take them in the house and they would bloom. So buds on it at this time of year is not unusual.

[DawgHouse]

17. Oh my goodness, I love forsythia. That's one thing I miss since I moved to Florida.

[pansypoo53219]

28. catnip NEVER goes dormant. i have dug thru the snow to find fresh mini EXTRA stron catnip in january

i have feverfew sprouts in a pot in milwaukee, the almost dead fall feverfew is looking green. chives. i need to dig up the last carrots. but cold front moving in. i saw a snap dragon sprouted. we did plant them this year. WEEDS. next, dandelions.

[madokie]

2. My sassafras tree is budding out

[femmocrat]

3. My newly-planted tulips are up about 3 inches.

In western PA. All of my herbs are still alive. I'm going to search for dill!

[bklyncowgirl]

4. Global warming meets El Niño.

If it wasn't pouring rain in New Jersey I'd be walking around in a t shirt.

[FLPanhandle]

6. Mosquitos are still very active here in North Florida

Usually we get a break as it cools off a bit during December-February. Not this year.

[Gman]

9. I sprayed for mosquitos a couple of weeks ago

Otherwise they'd o about their usual business.

[PADemD]

7. I knew this would happen.

Last winter, my car sat stuck in packed snow for almost a week. So, in August, I bought a snow blower, which will probably sit unused in my basement this winter.

[roamer65]

8. I am betting this winter in MI will almost not exist.

I have feeling 3-4 weeks of cold and snow in Jan-February then done.

[Siwsan]

10. It looks like the upper peninsula might get some snow, soon

My part of the state - not so much. A few days of a chance of < an inch but NOTHING in comparison to the last two, record breaking snow fall and cold temperature winters.

I feel bad for the winter sports people, but they had two kick ass winters in a row.

[roamer65]

13. I utterly hated the last 2 winters here.

They were like the winters from the 1970's. Cold, snowy and long.

[Siwsan]

15. The 2013 one almost killed me

During the power outage, the generator was on the opened screened in porch. The wind grew stronger and shifted, and blew the generator fumes back at and into the house. After a day, carbon monoxide started building up and I didn't know it. All I knew was whenever I stood up, I got VERY light headed but when I went out to get more gas for the generator, or curl up under a comforter on the couch, I'd start feeling normal, again. Fortunately we figured out what was happening before it reached a lethal level. However, it took me months before I felt closer to normal, and could taste food, again.

Needless to say, we made some MAJOR generator changes.

[TlalocW]

11. Whatever

Oklahoma Senator Inhofe brought a snowball onto the Senate floor last year, and that proves global warming doesn't exist!

TlalocW

[Siwsan]

12. I'll see his snowball, and raise it by 3 fresh dill plants and some catnip!

I'm still picking fresh thyme and oregano, too, but those plants are huge, hardy and well established and I cover them with maple leafs so I can harvest later into the year. Dill is pretty delicate and is the first herb I lose, every autumn.

[Major Nikon]

14. It's amazing how resilient some herbs are

I have one container pot of rosemary that simply refuses to die no matter how much I neglect it. It survives weeks of 100+ days here in Texas after I stop watering it in the spring.

[grntuscarora]

18. Tick season still hasn't ended,

and Christmas is predicted to be 70 degrees here in central PA.

More than a little creepy, imo.

And my parsley plants are still going strong.

[Mc Mike]

19. Yeah, but Sen. Inhofe has a snowball.

[SammyWinstonJack]

21. for a brain...

[Mc Mike]

24. Ain't it the truth.

Mint still growing in my yard in Pittsburgh, by the way. The robins gave up going south years ago, so there's no sighting of 'the first robin of spring' anymore.

[AngryAmish]

20. Rosemary and sage alive in Chicago.

[malaise]

22. Don't tell Ted Cruz

He plans to overturn any decisions re climate change

[Heeeeers Johnny]

23. Loving it here in MA (just outside of Boston)

If every December and/or winter was like this, and without ever having to see another snowflake again,
I'd die a happy man.

[Person 2713]

26. Ditto from Chitown 61 today usually sucks around this time with snow and sleet

I don't care about a white Christmas . Its going to be around 50

[Arugula Latte]

25. Western Pacific NW: Hot/dry and droughtish spring-summer followed by late fall rain-that-never-stops

This climate is fucked up.

[longship]

27. My twin sister has broccoli growing in her garden.

In fucking Michigan! After pulling it all up in the Fall! There were enough seeds to get another generation going. So she is harvesting broccoli in December... In fucking SE Michigan!!!!

BTW, 56 Degrees F today in rural west Michigan. No paved roads here, but no snow either. Bought new snow tires for my 20+ year old Volvo just in case. That, and added 400 gallons of heating oil. Now I only need to keep the martini levels up for the winter.

[LiberalElite]

29. There's a budding

magnolia tree here in NYC.