What a wild January for the Northeast and much of the country. From coldest opening week of a New Year since records began to least amount of snow cover for final week of January since 2003 and 2nd lowest since records began 15 years ago.

It was a truly memorable first half to January 2018 with EVERY state snow covered on the 18th and the Deep South enjoyed not 1, 2 but 3 snowstorms in 5 weeks.

https://twitter.com/WeatherNut27/status/953956822305656833

Houston and New Orleans observed 19F and 20F respectively, their coldest in decades.

Remember Philly and New York both observed their coldest daytime maximums since 1994.

https://twitter.com/WeatherNut27/status/954325910999715840

Quite the difference in Boston’s Charles River in barely 10 days.

January 19

January 28

https://twitter.com/BillKarins/status/957924786612637696

For the Northeast the final week of January saw least amount of snow cover since 2003 according to Eric Fisher.

A strong January thaw during the 2nd half of the month helped the temperature average flip from 7-10 degrees below normal to above normal as of January 28.

https://twitter.com/ericfisher/status/957806715294109698

Very strong warm has occurred on the Plains and Lower Midwest as well as Northeast.

https://twitter.com/QTweather/status/958745927635914762

As stated in this morning’s video, it’s looking cold through at least the first half of February.

GFS ensemble 5 day mean 2m temp anomalies.

FEATURED IMAGE CREDIT: Credit: Ray White‏
@RayWhite2