Here’s a picture of our weather record-breaking mid-winter month.

Black and White, Ying and Yang, Macy’s and Gimbel’s, Felix and Oscar: These opposites come to mind when we look at this picture of what happened to the weather in February, 2015.  The Washington Post reports there were coldest months on record throughout the East, while the West cooked.  There are some in both places who aren’t having fun with this.  You can understand the frustration of Western snow sport enthusiasts when they see brown hills, but there are plenty in the East who find the cold abysmal, the roads to ski areas challenging, and the need to deal with ice dams at home more demanding than recreation.  Nevertheless, as the month turns (Rabbit, Rabbit), there are signs the West is entertaining new storms.

One glance at the February weather composite shows why we've had a weird mid-Winter: Cold East, Warm West.  Credit: Weatherbell.com
One glance at the February weather composite shows why we’ve had a weird mid-Winter: Cold East, Warm West.
Credit: Weatherbell.com

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