Considering our lack of winter weather, this may come as no surprise.
After crunching the numbers, the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) has found that January 2012 was the fourth warmest January on record across the contiguous United States.
This is also the mildest January since 2006, which was the warmest in records dating back to 1895.
In addition, the December through January period also ranks as the fourth warmest.
States with a top 10 warmest January: AZ, KS, MO, MN, ND, NE, OK, SD, WY
On the opposite end of the spectrum is Alaska, where several cities had their coldest January on record.
More on January weather...snow lacking
The average snowcover extent was 329,000 square miles below the 1981-2010 average. This is the 3rd smallest January snowcover extent in the 46 years of records available.
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