Winter was wetter, warmer than usual in West Virginia

Mar 10, 2016, 05:42
Winter was wetter, warmer than usual in West Virginia

In the lower 48 states, December-February temperatures were 36.8 degrees, 4.6 degrees above normal.

Of course, that's excellent news for penny pinchers, because the warmest winter also means the cheapest one. However, NOAA said in a statement that Alaska had its second-warmest winter on record. These temperatures broke the previous record of 2.5°C (36.5°F) set in 1999 and 2000.

And it's unlikely any last minute freeze will cut this winter's record down to size.

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The latest series of reports from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information has shown that the meteorological winter - December, January, and February - in the contiguous United States was the warmest since records began over 100 years ago.

In Hawaii, the spike of 4.6 degrees translated into extreme dryness - the driest winter, in fact, in their record books. The opposite was true in Iowa, which recorded its wettest winter on record, as measured by rain and melted snow.

While skiers and mushers suffered, consumers benefited from lower heating bills.

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Monday's high is about 10 degrees above average for this time of year.

But the trend isn't good news for anyone concerned about climate change. Federal meteorologists say the winter that has just ended was the hottest in US records, thanks to the combination of El Nino and man-made global warming.

However, long-term global warming may play a part. The record, by the way, goes back 121 years. Global weather data for winter will be released later this month.

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