March is here, which means climatological winter is over. This past winter—December through February—was the fifth-warmest on record in Columbus, Ohio.
The average temperature was 38.0 degrees, pushing last winter (37.7 degrees) down to 6th place.
The only cold stretch was a weeklong arctic blast in the middle of January. Otherwise, temperatures were above normal a lot of the time. December had only three days below average.
We didn’t get much snow again, either, with 12.4 inches during the winter season. While that’s nowhere close to Top 10, it’s still well below the average of 22.2 inches. This was the third winter in a row with about a foot of snow or less. The last time that happened was the 1940s.
It’s worth noting that winter is the fastest-warming season in most of the country.
And spring is picking up right where winter left off: mild, mild, mild. The Climate Prediction Center shows that above-average temperatures remain favored this month throughout much of the eastern U.S.
