Meteorologists like to describe weather in terms of how hot, dry, wet, or cold things have been. A newer measure of the impacts of winter weather on humans is the Winter Misery Index, known more completely as the Accumulated Winter Season Severity Index (AWSSI). It is mapped by the Midwestern Regional Climate Center and posted on their website. The latest map, shown below, shows that a lot of the Southeast this year has had an extremely cold and miserable winter, especially those areas recently hit by the southern snowstorm. You can read more about this index and how it is calculated in this article from The Weather Channel and see the current AWSSI at https://mrcc.purdue.edu/research/awssi.
