In the East, the early - year cold was accompanied by heavy snowfall for some locations, including Boston, Massachusetts, which set a new
seasonal snowfall record with 110.6 inches of snow.
The research is timely given the extreme winter of 2017 - 2018, including
record warm Arctic and low sea ice,
record - breaking polar vortex disruption,
record - breaking cold and disruptive
snowfalls in the United States and Europe, severe «bomb cyclones» and costly nor'easter s, said Judah Cohen, director of
seasonal forecasting at AER and lead author of the study.