What a Difference a Month Makes
Below are some nice graphics (click to enlarge) which our meteorologists have drawn to show the extreme heat experienced in the Northeast through mid-January, then the extreme cold experienced since then. Add them up and you get... normal weather. Well, not exactly, especially in Canada, but this is a good example of how extremes can cancel each other out and, though this will be a memorable winter in people's minds, the climatological data may read "normal."
It has been a brutal change here in State College, PA, home of AccuWeather HQ. If you look at a graph of the daily temperatures for January and so far in February, you can see that we were almost completely above normal for the first half of Jan, then below normal since then. And the departure from normal each day shows it even better:
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