The U.S. just experienced its coldest winter in more than a decade.

[elleng]

59 degrees F in southern MD.

Winter appears to be over

[Walleye]

1. I wasn't just imagining how cold it was then. It's been a tough one. Got to hang some birdfeeders.

Only 29° here at the moment but supposed to go up to the mid 50s. Hope so.

[elleng]

2. 37 here now, headed to 56.Tomorrow, Wednesday,

expecting wind and rain, with high of 59. I hope the wind won't be overwhelming.

[WalkerinSC]

3. This was a Yo-Yo winter

Locally, December was average, January was well below average and February was above average. Just your normal South Carolina winter

[progree]

4. But world-wide probably one of the warmest, at least December and January were --

The below is for JANUARY 2025, not the whole winter. I did a quick Google looking for winter globally, but couldn't find anything.

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The U.S. had one of the coldest Januaries in 30 years, but globally it was one of the warmest on record. (MAP)

https://weather.com/news/weather/video/january-coldest-decades-globally-warmest

The lower 48 saw January 2025 as one of the coldest in over 30 years, but across the globe, the planet still managed to have one of the warmest Januaries on record.

In case some barroom rightie gives you a hard time about the very cold weather we've had in January, and for much of February, and then rolls their Magat eyes while muttering about "global warming, yeah, right"

Click the above link to see the map which is pretty much red everywhere (warmer), except in the U.S. lower 48 which is pretty much all blue with a subtantial part white (neutral)

I saw an article too about how, even though we're in a warming trend generally in the U.S. in winter (and of course summer), in winter we're having larger swings than in the past with polar vortexes breaking out of the Arctic more frequently than in the past -- a result of climate change.

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Edited to add I found this: December 2024 was the second warmest December on record, (1st was December 2023)
https://climate.copernicus.eu/second-warmest-december-confirms-2024-warmest-year#:~:text=Globally%2C%20December%202024%20was%200.76,December%20average%20for%201850%2D1900.

[WestMichRad]

5. Here in southern Michigan

… it’s been probably the coldest winter in at least two decades, maybe longer.

I hope it killed off a lot of the damn garden pest bugs and invasive species.