WASHINGTON (CNN) -- With more than ten days until the official arrival of spring, this week's unseasonably warm weather across much of the Eastern and Midwestern U.S. is prompting many people, including some experts, to scratch their heads in
wonder.

Wednesday's forecast for Washington, for example, calls for temperatures pushing into the 80s, a day after record highs were reported in places such as Sioux Falls, South Dakota with 79 degrees, and Lansing, Michigan with 74 degrees.

Experts credit giant, warm, air bubble

Here's what's happening: The jet stream, flowing high above the United States, is peaking north, pushing a giant bubble of warm air over places that are normally much colder this time of year, according to weather experts.
Equation:
Sunspots = Solar Flares = Magnetic Shift = Shifting Ocean and Jet Stream Currents = Extreme Weather  (MB)

Forecasters are wondering if the warmer winters of the past few years are the work of a new weather phenomenon which, like the infamous El Nino and La Nina, took years to understand.

"The 90s in general have been warmer than prior years," said Ed O'Lenic of the National Weather Service. "There has been an increase in temperature in the 90's and we really don't have an explanation for it."  But as many people have been proving lately, you don't have to understand something to enjoy it.

"The weather is great," said one New York City observer, "I'm loving it, I hope it stays like this. I don't want no more winter weather."

Mitch Battros
Producer - Earth Changes TV
http://www.earthchangesTV.com