While Western Europe flipped from warm January to cold February, the opposite has taken place in the Eastern US with cold January to warm February. The north-central has been frigid though and this strongly reflects a La Nina February.

Jan 18

Feb so far

Next 7 days firmly follows the trend of the last 18 days!

Significant positive precip anomaly within the conflict zone of air masses.

This setup takes us into March but I expect the cold to expand eastwards.