We’ve had quite a few unseasonably warm days in the past few weeks, but something about today really felt spring-like when I went outside this afternoon. It rained a bit yesterday, and was extremely foggy last night and this morning. But now that the fog has lifted, it is sunny and bright, calm, and a little damp from all the moisture. Ah, spring.

High temperatures for mid-December should be in the mid-40s (F, for those of you outside of the U.S.). Lately, we’ve had a lot of days in the 60s.

Not that I’m complaining. It feels great! (My sinuses don’t agree, every time it gets warm again I get all stuffed up!)

It made me wonder, are we just having a mild winter, or is it global warming?

I dug up a page on weather.com to view monthly highs and lows, as well as record highs and lows. Pulling up December for Annapolis, MD, the high temperatures on record span from 1956 to 2001.

Most notably, record high temperatures were set on six days in 1984. 1990 saw four record-highs in December. 1978, 1982 and 1998 all set three December record-highs.

Only one of the record highs was even in this decade. It seems this is nothing unusual.

So I guess I’ll enjoy it while it lasts, and be glad I’m not in Russia trapped by stranded polar bears.