Weather Underground‘s blog provided an interesting overview of the 2016-17 winter that ended last week.  Their analysis showed that most of the eastern US experienced top-five warmest years, including quite a few in the Southeast, while a few stations in the Pacific Northwest felt top-five coldest conditions.  California not surprisingly had one of its five wettest years, as did Atlanta, but other stations in the Southeast were in the driest five years.  You can read more about it at https://www.wunderground.com/news/winter-2016-2017-warmest-coldest-wettest-driest-records?__prclt=rpeXbzRZ.