The cold of February has mostly continued into March along with the frequent snow producing storms. The featured chart looks back on the distribution of average daily high temperatures for the month among long term climate sites in the state. The overall climatology over all years is shown as well for comparison. Nearly all of the distribution for 2019 is shown colder than the simple average of climatology, but the distribution is tight and does not necessarily exceed the minimum extremities of climatology. The first pass reasoning for this is persistent snow cover that helps to keep sites below freezing and the persistent storms which provide moisture and clouds to help keep temperatures from getting too cold.

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