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In Concord, the Warmest Winter in Recorded History
The data has been tabulated by the NWS from December to February since the 1800s.
CONCORD, NH - The National Weather Service is reporting that Concord has had its warmest winter ever, according to its recordkeeping.
For December through February, according to a Facebook post from the Gray, ME, service station, the Concord Airport tracked a mean average temperature of 30.9 degrees, forecasters noted.
The previous recorded high temperature was the 1879-1880 season, which came in at 30.4 degrees. The measurement comes just two weeks after the state saw some of the coldest temperatures in history.
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On Feb. 21, 2015, the service station reported that Concord had its coldest day ever, -17 degrees, the coldest day in 146 years of recorded weather data, according to WMUR-TV.
Both 2015 and 2008 were some of the snowiest winters on record, according to the data.
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Read the Facebook post here:
It looks like the 2015-2016 winter season will get close to breaking records all around the region:
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