Warming? Cooling?

Haven't posted in a couple of days since I was at a conference on academic advising at Foxwoods in Connecticut (yes, I may have drank and gambled a bit in my off hours).

Just saw this interesting map put out by NOAA on weather records set this February.  While its been a mild winter and very early spring here in the Hudson Valley, other parts of the globe have seen unseasonably cold temperatures.  Go figure.  I have no answers to the question why and neither do the professional meteorologists.

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