A weird winter not only in Connecticut

NOAA reports that the contiguous United States had the warmest winter in 122 years of record keeping. The temperature averaged 36.8 degrees. That was 0.3 degrees above the previous record, set in the winter of 1999–2000, and 4.6 degrees above the average from the 20th century.

2015 was the hottest year globally, becoming the fourth since 2000 to break the record, and most months in 2015 were the warmest since record keeping began.