This was
the fourth warmest winter for the state and the warmest since 2003.
The average temperature was 57.1 degrees F, up from the old record, in 1998, which landed an average of 54.3 degrees F. «We had
our fourth warmest winter (2011/2012) on record, our warmest spring, a very hot summer with the hottest month on record for the nation (July 2012), and a warmer than average autumn,» Jake Crouch, a scientist at the National Climatic Data Center, told NBC News.
Not exact matches
So
warm, in fact, that the December - through - February period came in as
fourth -
warmest winter on record for the Lower 48 states.
It may be hard to believe considering the
winter storms we've seen, but January was the
fourth -
warmest since 1880, 134 years ago.
It may be hard to believe considering the
winter storms we've seen, but January's global temperature was the
fourth warmest in nearly 150 years, according to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Association (NOAA).