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SLIDESHOW: 'This Is Not Winter'

Unseasonably warm weather draws Greene Hill residents to the Great Outdoors.

If near 60 degree weather in a Brooklyn February is a sure fire sign of the apocalypse, no one out today in seemed to mind all that much.

"I haven't even pulled out a winter coat yet," said Clinton Hill resident Richard Bryant, enjoying the spring like sunshine while leaning against a park bench. "I mean, look at all these kids playing with not just sweaters on, but in short sleeves. This isn't winter."

Bryant was one of dozens of pleasantly surprised Brooklyn residents basking in the glow of one of the warmest winters on record—at least in the continental U.S., anyway.

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Carlos Longo, together with Fort Greene resident Tracy Cyprow, took his bike out by the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument under a dome of clear blue sky wearing little more than a windbreaker. 

The same can't be said for Longo's relatives in Italy, a place battered along with much of Southern and Eastern Europe by snow, wind and bitterly cold temperatures this winter.

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"The weather over there is just as unusual as this warm weather," Longo said.

The cause of this wacky weather pattern? Nearly everyone Patch talked to blamed it on global warming.

"There's no denying it now," Cyprow said.


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