I have proof now. The weather nerds have confirmed that several Oregon sites are concluding the warmest winter in recorded history. While recorded history only goes back to 1940 for Portland, it goes back 122 years, to 1893, for Salem.
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Alas, my link of proof goes only to the semi-daily local newspaper, not to an official NOAA site. I'll probably hear about this;
http://www.oregonlive.com/...
This buttresses my golf course's unofficial, but detailed records of the last 10-odd years of frost delays, meaning mornings with the temperature below 32 F. Our records show this winter had about half the typical number of frost delays.
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