Winter was cold, snowy, says AccuWeather

As if you didn’t realize it, AccuWeather says this past winter was one of the coldest and snowiest on record. AccuWeather Global Weather Center — 25 March 2014 – AccuWeather.com reports despite the arrival of spring, the icy grip of winter still retains a stranglehold on much of the Midwest and Northeast. The 2013-14 winter season is one of the coldest winters in 20 years, according to AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Dave Dombek. “It’s probably the coldest the Northeast has seen since 1993-94,” he said in early March. With snowfalls approaching annual all-time record highs in many of the major metropolitan areas across the country, the winter season has shattered expense records in the North. According to AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Jack Boston, the reason behind the record-breaking winter is due to a blocking high pressure ridge over Alaska, the Yukon and the Northeastern Pacific Ocean. “That system deflected the jet stream across the North Pole, down through Canada and into the United States,” he said, citing unseasonably low temperatures as a result of this burst of arctic air. The cool air from the North meets with the jet stream and moisture in the South to create storm systems, and this is the main [...]