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This is a map showing average temperature for January through October relative to normal. Areas that are blue have been cooler than average and that’s most of the country. By my count this comes to 38 of the 48 states. Most of the 10 states with warmer than average temperatures are small and in those states it wasn’t much above normal. Add the fact that Alaska is having what could be their coldest year in recent history (Anchorage has had only one month with warmer than average temperatures this year…Fairbanks was 7 degrees colder than average in October) and you’re looking at a pretty cold continent. Also note that the Arctic icecap is building back (now back to 2002 levels) and the Antarctic icecap reached a record high last year. I’ll be issuing my winter forecast in just a few days…and I can tell you this…it’s not looking like a warm winter for much of the country. You know, if we would have “fixed” “global warming” this map would have been even bluer.