March Weather Highlights: Fewest Tornadoes Reported Since 1978, Million-Square-Mile Snow Cover and Unusually Cold Temperatures

The National Climatic Data Center has been a little slow in putting these together so I haven't published one of these in a while. I'll keep it short and sweet today... still at home recovering but feeling a little better.

Wow. What an end to winter. Here were a few of the highlights:

• According to data from the Rutgers Global Snow Lab, the March snow cover extent for the contiguous U.S. was nearly 1.0 million square miles, 239,000 square miles above the 1981-2010 average, and the 10^th largest March snow cover extent in the 47-year period of record.
• Less than 20 tornadoes were reported for March, the fewest since 1978
• 5 states in the SE (incliding GA) had average temperatures colder than in January
• The monthly-averaged AO index was the most negative value on record for March and was associated with the prolonged cold air outbreak that impacted states from the Canadian border to the Southeast.

I could go on and on, but as to not bore you here, you can bore yourself by reading the report here! :-)
http://www.daculaweather.com/4_climate_summary.php

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