I would trust the NOAA over your perceived observations.
This is a very silly question. You can download the data and plot it yourself. Almost the entire winter has been very warm and dry where I live--Sunday hit 90 degrees--how's that for a cold winter day?
EDIT: So I wonder if you thought about going onto the NCDC website and checking out things for yourself, rather than just using propagandist blogs as your main source? Here is a link that ranks the month for various cities and shows where it stands with respect to the historical record.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/2...
What you'll find is that even though people in places like Hartford, Boston and Providence thought it was very cold, it did not even rank among the coldest 10% of Februaries for those sites. One thing this shows is that people's intuition for how cold and warm it is is not very good--which is why you look to the data, not to what people think.
One interesting thing you'll see by looking at the data from all those cities is that NOT ONE of them recorded their coldest February, but seven cities recorded their WARMEST Februaries ever.
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No, it means that the "most people" you refer to were wrong.
You are comparing the collective memories of 'the people' and how they experienced last months' weather with hard scientific data. And since many of these 'people' were really, really cold, the NOAA data 'just must be wrong'.
PS Congrats on finding yet another blog written by a non-scientist from which you can copy-paste 'questions' here.
That would depend on how much you fail to look at the info on the actual NOAA page
which has a set of images at various temperature resolutions, you are using the last image tro try and make a twisted point
This shows the full set of images that you where to afraid to link to by posting just the one image in wordpress
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip...
NOAA clearly show the over average of the U.S was below average
in the very first image, but unlike you the show all the detail and clearly in the West and Florida that was not the case it also shows a fair portion of coastal East coast regions had near normal averages for the time of year, but I guess you won't like that point either.
As an overall average NOAA report Feb as 37th coldest on record not showing any bias but simply reporting the data.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/2...
While deniers claimed "the coldest ever temps" NOAA also reported no state broke it's coldest temperature record.
Which brins us back to "what is your point" nobdy is denying the U.S. has a cold Winter, but then we are not (as you are) try to ignore what the rest of the world did over the Northern Hemisphere Winter
Nov to Jan where some of the warmest months seen in the modern record.
Nov - was the warmest Nov in the modern record
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201...
Dec - was the 3rd warmest Dec in the modern record
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201...
Jan - was the 4th warmest in the modern record
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201...
So while deniers only wanted to talk about a few percent of the Earths surface (the U.S.) the actual globe had 3 straight months with top 4 or higher temps.
on your comment
"but because people do not read the data" while deniers may only look at the pretty pictures, many people do read the bullet points and I'm sorry but NOAA put in the very first line of the very first point under "Climate Highlights ― February" that it was the 37th cold U.S. temp.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/2...
If deniers are to lazy to even read highlights points, then clearly you are not really reading anything, which would seem to go with many media links deniers post based soly on a headline when the story they post often shoots down their own point if they had actually bothered to read it.
i.e. just one of many many example the National Geographic story, deniers posted on the warming of Mars, a story that did print the absurd theories deniers where using based on the ramblings of an ancient retired Russian scientist, yet sadly deniers failed to even notice the story had a second page, where real experts took the theory apart.
i.e. this is the second page of that story denier kept failing to read.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com.au/ne...
Yeah. I mean if you look at a map of the US where it shows cold areas compared to warm areas and it doesn't meet your expectations it's obviously biased and wrong right? And when NOAA says it is the 37th coldest February on average and you don;t believe it obviously it's wrong right?
"Most people" do not study the data and recorded temperature is not based on what "most people" think.
What is your point, anyway - to prove that there is no ceiling on your desperate attempts to wish-away reality?
Accepting climate change is a matter of being informed and objective - the scientific evidence is biased that way.
Is NOAA unbiased about climate change? Yes.
NOAA predicted all kinds of bad weather and a much warmer winter. Of course the AGW cultists put all their faith and trust into something that conforms to their ideology. Too bad for AGW cultists and NOAA that their predictions were wrong. I trust the farmer's almanac before I'll trust any AGW cultist for my climate forecasts.
Do you really care? If you think it is all a hoax, well, then, why do you care?
I think most people will agree Febuary in the contiguous US was colder than normal, but just look at this temperature map produced by NOAA does it give the wrong impression or what
http://talkingabouttheweather.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/screen-shot-2014-03-18-at-1-24-26-pm.png?w=640&h=445
