"Yamean like in weather patterns? "It's slightly warmer today and sunny"?"
While you were out grubering in the toxic waste disposal site you proudly call "my back yard", de Nile was rising over your head.
U.S. Warm vs. Cold Records
First, let's look at daily warm records vs. cold records set so far in 2016, through March 22. (All data: NOAA/NCEI. Note: NOAA/NCEI uses stations with a minimum of 30 years of data with more than six months of data each year.)
Daily Cold Records8,0007,0006,0005,0004,0003,0002,0001,0000JanuaryFebruaryMarch (throughMar. 22)
Daily Warm Records Daily Cold Records
14,362 U.S. daily warm records in 2016 through March 22.
1,886 U.S. daily cold records in 2016 through March 22.
Temperature Anomalies in 2016, So Far
Only a small part of the southeast U.S. has been cooler than average in 2016 through late March. The analysis below from NOAA/ESRL shows anomalies in degrees Celsius.
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