Across much of America and especially in the normally chilly north, the country went through the winter months without, well, winter. In parka strongholds Burlington, Vermont, and Portland, Maine, the thermometer never plunged below zero.
A cyclist travels around Lake Michigan near the Adler Planetarium Monday, Feb. 26, 2024, in Chicago. FILE - A cyclist travels around Lake Michigan near the Adler Planetarium Monday, Feb. 26, 2024, in Chicago. Federal meteorologists on Friday, March 8, have made it official: It’s the warmest U.S. winter on record by far. FILE - A cyclist travels around Lake Michigan near the Adler Planetarium Monday, Feb. 26, 2024, in Chicago.
Dori Wright makes photos of flowers blooming during warm water at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden in Dallas, Feb. 27, 2024. in nearly 130 years of record-keeping for the United States. The Lower 48 states averaged 37.6 degrees , which is 5.4 degrees above average.Last month was hottest February ever recorded. It’s the ninth-straight broken recordAnd it was the warmest U.S. winter by a wide margin. The past three months were 0.
A strong ridge of high pressure kept the eastern United States warm and dry, while California kept getting hit with atmospheric rivers, she said., mostly due to climate change with an added boost from a natural El Nino, which alters weather worldwide and provides extra heat. As the Arctic warms faster, the jet stream — which moves weather systems across the Earth — wobbles and weakens. That means the cold air trapped at the top of the planet, called the polar vortex, escapes its normal confines and drifts elsewhere, bringing short plunges of frigid air that temporarily counteracts the overall warming trend in places, Cohen said.
FILE - Greg O’Connor gives a safety check prior to the 200-meter freestyle competition in the winter swimming festival on frozen Lake Memphremagog, Feb. 23, 2024, in Newport, Vt. Federal meteorologists on Friday, March 8, have made it official: It’s the warmest U.S. winter on record by far. There’s consequences to warm winters, said Theresa Crimmins, director of the National Phenology Network.
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