1 post tagged “december”

Today in Norfolk, VA it is 76 degrees Fahrenheit.  It is also December 10th, so you would think that there is something going on here.  Perhaps a sign of increasing global temperatures?  Or something.

But you'd be wrong.  In my memory, the Tidewater region of Virginia has always had fairly schizophrenic Decembers.  It goes back and forth between cold and warm all month.  While today's temp might be a record (since records started being kept), it's hardly unusual to have weather in the high 60s at this time of year.  It doesn't start to become steadily cold until February, when we might actually get some snow.

Virginia itself doesn't have much in the way of weather extremes either way.  It does sometimes become oppressively hot, but nothing compared to Mississippi.  And it does sometimes become bitter cold, but not quite in the same league as your New England states. 

I basically live in an awesome climate.