This Winter Wasn't Nearly as Cold as You Think, Feds Say

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This Winter Wasn't Nearly as Cold as You Think, Feds Say
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By the imprecise measure of human perception, this winter was a brutal one across much of the central and eastern United States. Several bouts of extreme cold and s**w struck from Chicago to Kansas City, and eastward to Washington, New York and Boston. At times the frigid weather — related in part to wobbles in the polar vortex (http://mashable.com/category/polar-vortex/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) and deep dips in jet stream winds — extended all the way to the Gulf Coast

But according to new data released Thursday, the winter of 2013-14 (meteorological winter is defined as December through February) was **t historically cold for the country as a whole. Instead, nationally speaking, this winter was an example of how the long-term increase in average temperatures, which is due in part (http://www.climatecentral.org/news/winters-are-warming-all-across-the-us-15590) to emissions of manmade greenhouse gases, is warping our sense of what a frigid winter looks and feels like. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/14/winter-cold-2014-perspective/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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