NCDC Releases Statistics from Past Meteorological Winter

The winter season southern Kentucky has experienced over the past few months may be regarded extreme by some to due to a couple of significant storms occurring late in the season.  The NCDC has released climate data showing how states’ temperatures and precipitation totals fared compared to normal.

Since the NCDC uses meteorological winter as the time period, these winter statistics don’t include any dates in March and only include the time period from December 2014 through February 2015.

Most of the eastern half of the United States saw temperatures run slightly below average while the western United States was well-above average with some states seeing their warmest winter on record (California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Washington). Kentucky saw its 24th coolest winter.

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Courtesy: NCDC

 

Precipitation was near normal across most of the country over the past winter but Kentucky was the driest state in comparison to normal precipitation, seeing its 14th driest winter season.

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Courtesy: NCDC