January was the seventh warmest January on record in Cleveland.
Each month has brought a surplus of warmer-than-normal temperatures and a lack of snowfall.The bitterly cold weather that moved in over Christmas helped keep the average temperature a little closer to normal, compensating for warmer days earlier in the month.The average temperature was 36.4 degrees, which is a whopping 7.3 degrees above normal.
“The warmer air has also meant that Lake Erie water temperatures have stayed mild enough to limit ice growth. Through mid-February, less than 1% of the lake was covered in ice! Across all the Great Lakes? Only about 6% had ice coverage by the middle of February,” said Paige.Will the rest of Winter bring any colder, snowier weather?
According to Tanchak, “Above-normal temperatures are forecast for much of the southern U.S. and the East. Colder than normal in the Northern Plains and the Pacific Northwest.” As for Ohio, Tanchak and Dobeck are forecasting above-normal temperatures and above-normal precipitation for the second half of February through April.“So far, this Winter, we’ve been relatively ‘snow-free,’ with only about 18 inches of snow falling at Hopkins airport. That’s well below our seasonal average by more than 2 feet! So, as we head into the rest of Winter and into the early part of Spring, we look ahead at what is in store for us,” Chief Meteorologist Jason Nicholas explains.
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