This is the famous quote that opens Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities”. In this case it is also a pretty good summary of the divided nature of temperature across the US this winter.
The Weather Channel had a story today which described stations that had their record warmest winter ever, including a number of cities in Florida, Texas, and on the West Coast (link). At the same time, NBC News commented on the number of stations setting record low temperatures for February, many of them in the Northeast (link).
Here in the Southeast, the Southeast Regional Climate Center’s Perspectives tools shows that for most of the Southeast, February was ranked in the top ten coldest Februaries on record. The main exceptions were the southern half of the Florida peninsula and some of the major cities like Atlanta, which may have been impacted by their long records and urban heating effects.
