Winter Goes to Seed: The WeatherTiger Newsletter for March 2023

Winter ends with a whimper, but is unseasonable cold ahead in March?

On February 2, Punxsutawney Phil, canonically immortal climatology rodent, predicted six more weeks of winter. This forecast immediately seemed logically inconsistent with winter 2022-23 by implying there had already been six weeks of winter. In reality, the tally for most of the southern and eastern U.S. states through February has been something like …