>Hi Dennis that looks to be more or less all over the world, here in portugal he are having a warm winter also, not that comes to very cold over here.

Funny here too. I'm not an expert in Virginia climate, but this is just weird. For the whole month of December we had pretty much early November weather, sunny all the time, except for a couple of showers that cleared next morning. Yesterday, we had a near torrential rain, and today it's blazingly sunny again. I'm walking out now, jacket unbuttoned.