Not exact matches
Only the Northwest has been consistently
colder than normal since Dec. 1, with several sites in Washington and Oregon having
one of their 10
coldest winters on
record through mid-February.
Similar to 2014, some of the Southern Ocean waters off the tip of South America and part of the Atlantic Ocean south of Greenland were much cooler
than average, with
one localized area in the Atlantic region
record cold.
The
record low temperatures tell an even more compelling story: it was much more likely for the daytime temperature to be
colder than average
than it was for the nighttime
ones.
Extreme heat is
one of the hallmarks of global warming; as the average temperature of the planet rises,
record heat becomes much more likely
than record cold.
It looks to be as
cold as, or even
colder,
than 2007, which experienced
one of the steepest cooling trends in any single year ever
recorded.
The temperature rise was much greater up to 1739
than with the hockey stick, but it ended in 1740 with
one of the
coldest winters in the entire 350 year instrumental temperature
record.
Bike share is a seasonal business, and
one of the
coldest winters on
record in New York meant fewer visitors used Citi Bikes
than we expected.