Yesterday's feature presented the number of hours below zero Fahrenheit so far this winter season. The icebox in northern Minnesota had much larger totals than anywhere else in the Midwest, but they are also typically cold during the winter season! Today's image attempts to normalize the presented totals by comparing this year's amount of time below zero with the past 41 years worth of data. This analysis places Ohio and SE Michigan with the highest ratios. A ratio of 3 would imply that the location has seen three times as long a duration below zero than on average. So while Minnesota has seen roughly double the sub-zero time (which is a much longer duration in absolute terms than in Ohio), it is the eastern part of the Midwest that has been the most relative difference this winter season.

Voting:
Good = 49
Bad = 16
Abstain = 8

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