On today's date: Midwest Winter Warm Records Smell

On February 26, 2024, today a year ago, a two-day warm magic, according to the NOAA statistics in the middle section of the country, destroyed 373 monthly high-temperature recordings (both highs and warm lows) in the middle section of the country.

Five states gang or set up their warmest February temperatures. This included 90-degree heights in Texarkana, Arkansas and Van Buren, Missouri. It pushed into the 1970s to the northeast -Wisconsin, a February first in this region.

At least 56 cities with data have had or have been determined not only for February, but for every winter day from December to February. Grand Rapids (73) and Saginaw, Michigan (73), each had their first winter day in the 70s.

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In this winter heating, heat wave has also made an exclamation mark for the warmest winter of America for 129 years.

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