Parts of U.S. Experience Warm Winter

January 4, 2007 Parts of U.S. Experience Warm Winter (AP)

Chicago school teacher Pat Rosen takes advantage of the warm weather to get in a round of golf at the Marovitz Golf Course in Chicago near Lake Michigan during the holiday school break Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2007. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

(AP) -- Crocuses are pushing out of the ground in New Jersey. Ice fishing tournaments in Minnesota are being canceled for lack of ice. And golfers are hitting the links in Chicago in January. Much of the Midwest and the East Coast are going through a remarkably warm winter, with temperatures running 10 and 20 degrees higher than normal in many places.

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