{"id":87,"date":"2008-03-14T09:30:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T16:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2008-03-14T09:37:09","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T16:37:09","slug":"noaa-coolest-winter-since-2001-for-us-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/national-weather\/noaa-coolest-winter-since-2001-for-us-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA: Coolest Winter Since 2001 for U.S. &#038; Globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/temp_feb2008.jpg\" title=\"Winter Temperatures\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" width=\"50\" src=\"..\/images\/ice.jpg\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"A cold winter!\" height=\"50\" \/>This week NOAA\u2019s National Climatic Data Center announced that from December 2007 to February 2008 temperatures across the United States and the globe were their coolest since 2001.\u00a0 In the contiguous United States, the average winter temperature was 33.2\u00b0F which ranks it as the 54th coolest winter since national records began in 1895.\u00a0 Globally, the combined land and ocean surface temperature was the 16th warmest on record for the period.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of precipitation, as everyone here in Colorado knows, large swaths of the country experienced at or well-above normal levels of precipitation.\u00a0 Indeed, some basins here in Colorado were in excess of 150% of normal.\u00a0 Record February precipitation in the Northeast helped make the winter the fifth wettest on record for the region. New York had its wettest winter, while Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Vermont, and Colorado to the West, had their second wettest.<\/p>\n<p>The charts below give a good view of both temperature and precipitation for the winter.\u00a0 You can also <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/oa\/climate\/research\/2008\/feb\/feb08.html\">view the NCDC&#8217;s complete summary on their website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/temp_feb2008.jpg\" title=\"Winter Temperatures\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/temp_feb2008.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Winter Temperatures\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/precip_feb20081.jpg\" title=\"Winter Precipitation\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/precip_feb20081.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Winter Precipitation\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/precip_feb2008.jpg\" title=\"Winter Precipitation\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week NOAA\u2019s National Climatic Data Center announced that from December 2007 to February 2008 temperatures across the United States and the globe were their coolest since 2001.\u00a0 In the contiguous United States, the average winter temperature was 33.2\u00b0F which ranks it as the 54th coolest winter since national records began in 1895.\u00a0 Globally, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/national-weather\/noaa-coolest-winter-since-2001-for-us-globe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NOAA: Coolest Winter Since 2001 for U.S. &#038; Globe<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}