Why are daffodils blooming now in January?

I don't know where you are, but the daffodils bloomed early in January down in NE Georgia as well. It's been a warm winter, so the daffodils got an early start because of the rise in soil temperature told them it was time. Normally we see the wild type daffodil flowers on Valentine's Day, with the culivars following no later than the first of March. Back in 1996 it stayed cold all the way through March, and our first daffodils that year bloomed on April 26th.