As I look out the windows of the Quest Air club house at the sky
full of beautiful cu's and as I hear stories of the wonderful weather that the
pilots have been experiencing here since Monday, I feel blessed to be here.

Pilots are getting more air time than their winter-tired arms can handle. The
yoga class at the pool lasts two hours and pushes a dozen pilots even further.
The air is full of moisture unlike the dry air that we experienced for over a
month near Palm Springs, and Belinda's skin is so much happier.

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/03/17/446621/blow-out-march-heat-wave-meteorologist-masters-this-is-not-the-atmosphere-i-grew-up-with/

This remarkable warmth is associated with a bulging ridge of high
pressure aloft that is exceptionally strong and long-lasting for March. While
natural factors are contributing to this warm spell, given the nature of it and
its context with other extreme weather events and patterns in recent years there
is a high probability that global warming is having an influence upon its
extremity.

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2052

As I stepped out of my front door into the pre-dawn darkness from
my home near Ann Arbor, Michigan yesterday morning, I braced myself for the cold
shock of a mid-March morning. It didn’t come. A warm, murky atmosphere, with
temperatures in the upper fifties–30 degrees above normal–greeted me instead.
Continuous flashes of heat lightning lit up the horizon, as the atmosphere
crackled with the energy of distant thunderstorms. Beware the Ides of March, the
air seemed to be saying. I looked up at the hazy stars above me, flashing in and
out of sight as lightning lit up the sky, and thought, this is not the
atmosphere I grew up with.