No U.S. states had a record cold winter. Nine had a record hot one | Though it may surprise East Coasters, the story of this winter was not record cold but record heat

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No U.S. states had a record cold winter. Nine had a record hot one | Though it may surprise East Coasters, the story of this winter was not record cold but record heat - SLRPNK

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It was 70 last week. And then it dropped overnight to 35. My buddy says “so much for global warming huh?” like it wasn’t just 70 fucking degrees out for a week in the middle of winter.
Yeah, I was working on getting the AC units working again and my twin was just “Don’t worry, it’s going to snow tomorrow” (well, a few days ago now) and I just was like. Hell. It’s hell.