John Bachman, a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service, walks between snow banks after delivering mail to a house in Hull, Mass., on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015.(Photo: Scott Eisen, Bloomberg)
The winter of 2014-15 has been so warm across a wide swath of the West that more than 20 cities set records for the warmest meteorological winter, which runs from Dec. 1 to the end of February, the
Weather Channel reports.
Most folks shivering in the Northeast really don't want to hear about it.
San Francisco, Seattle, Salt Lake City and Las Vegas were among cities blessed with record-balmy winters. But a few thousand miles away, February 2015 proved to be the coldest month ever for some New York cities and the snowiest ever for Boston, the
Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University tells the Associated Press.
Boston's 64.8 inches of snow easily whited out city's old record of 41.6 inches. And the average temperature was 10.9 degrees in Buffalo, beating the 1934 record of 11.4. The monthly average was 9.0 in Syracuse, 12.2 in Binghamton and 10.2 in Ithaca, the climate center reports.
The nasty February was not enough to rattle record books in the East, Weather Channel senior digital meteorologist Nick Wiltgen says.
"In case you're wondering, few if any cities in the East will have their coldest winters on record despite a series of high-profile blizzards and record cold waves – mainly because December was relatively mild," Wiltgen says.
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