Temperature Highlights - January 1 - March 31, 2010

• For the year-to-date (January-March) period, climatic extremes were seen the Northeast where Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire each experienced their warmest such period. Other states that were abnormally warm were Washington (3^rd warmest), Connecticut (7^th warmest), Rhode Island and New York (8^th warmest), Massachusetts and Michigan (9^th warmest), and Oregon (10^th warmest).
• The unrelenting cool pattern during the winter season spilled into the three-month period as several states were below normal. It was Florida's coldest ever, Louisiana's second coldest, and the third coldest for Mississippi and Alabama. Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas also experienced a January-March period that ranked among their five coolest.