The Only Place It Was Cold This Winter Was The East Coast Of The United States
Mar 20, 2015 by Casey Coates Danson
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by Joe Romm CLIMATE PROGRESS
If you live on the East Coast of the United States, help the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has just released some statistics that may surprise you:
Note: For NOAA, winter is the “meteorological winter” (December 2014 to February 2015).
As the NOAA map above shows, other than the “cooler than average” northeast, this winter has been “warmer than average” and “much warmer than average” and “record warmest” over every other land area in the world.
In particular, many Western states saw their hottest winter on record — which is not a surprise if you live in drought-stricken California or its neighbors:
Where this winter ranks (by state) in the 120-year NOAA record. A “120” means it was the hottest winter on record for that state.
Now entering its fourth year, the drought in California is so bad that NASA senior water scientist Jay Famiglietti warned that “the state has only about one year of water supply left in its reservoirs, and our strategic backup supply, groundwater, is rapidly disappearing.” Global warming-driven record heat has made this the worst California drought in 1200 years, as scientists explained in December.
The Earth keeps setting the record for the hottest 12 months in the surface temperature record, as we reported Saturday. NOAA’s global data show we’ve started this year at a record pace — and early indications are that March will be warm globally — so we are on track for what is likely to be the hottest calendar year on record.