While over in California, the drought (worst in recent history if not on record) continues unabated with thefts of water now subject to dramatically increased fines

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-2965957/Water-thefts-rise-drought-stricken-California.html

including action against a nudist colony who couldn't manage without their skinny-dipping

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11097794/Drought-plagued-California-nudists-accused-of-stealing-water-for-skinny-dipping.html

And Anchorage, in Alaska, has for the first time since records began, not recorded a winter temperature  below 0F

Blimey a true Winter month

Did you visit Lloydminster? Big debate as to whether or not it's in AB OR SK, DID you visit Jasper?

Not even a flake of snow in London then??

At the most London had a dusting of snow!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31110054

Confirmation that with a mean temp of -12.6c, this February was the coldest on record at Toronto Pearson and the coldest in Toronto in general since 1934: http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/was-this-past-february-the-coldest-on-record-in-toronto/46381/

Looks like the North East and Midwest will start to thaw out next week. Weekend temps in the 40s in Chicago and up to 50 by Tuesday. Its been a very cold second half of winter so it'll feel balmy for them!

Indeed. Toronto Pearson crept above freezing yesterday for the first time since January 24th. Only reached +0.8c but that put an end to the run of ice days at 38.

Goodness me - still -10c at 8am in NYC and it's spring!

http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/new-york-ny/10007/weather-forecast/349727

High of -3c today - goodness me surely , surely they have had enough of this....surely!?

Boston isn't doing well either (-11c at 8am) and a forecasted high of -4c today:

http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/boston-ma/02108/weather-forecast/348735

Just a terrible start to spring for them in NE America/Canada!

It just goes on and on - Must be one of the coldest and snowiest on record surely!?

And a few weeks later, some unbelievable temperatures in the mid west - well into the 90's in Nebraska, records broken.

It really is a country blessed with the best weather in the world - so diverse.

And amazingly in Chrlottetown PEI the snow storms are still coming on a regular basis with a cumulative snowfall this winter of over 15 feet so far. Remarkable even by their standards (and my brother has the "pleasure" of experiencing it all!)

I have the Weather Network live on the TV at the moment. Nova Scotia (and the rest of the Maritimes, I may hasten to add) set to get hammered Wednesday as a deepening low is expected to dump up to 30cm of snow (and very strong winds), with slightly lower forecast amounts towards Sydney.

Charlottetown, as the Doc said earlier, is heading towards 500 cm this winter season.

EDIT: I should add that Newfoundland got dumped on today with up to 50cm in places.

Years ago my father travelled to Stephenville once a month. One morning he woke up and saw snow outside his window. Which is fine and dandy - except he was staying on the first floor.

Certainly was an interesting day on Monday for temps, even in Chicago reaching 22C. Just a fortnight day highs were well below 0. Back to the cooler weather today with a 35F temp drop. Such a great diversity as mentioned. Be interesting to see how the tornado season pans out.

Current snow depth in Saint John, 154cm; Moncton 136 cm. And we're not talking ski resorts here either.

EDIT: Just to add that the biggest storm total of the most recent snowstorm was 74cm in a township just west of Halifax.

Not sure if this has been mentioned but anyway.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3033098/Powerful-tornado-tears-central-Illinois-leaving-trail-destruction-twister-threatens-Chicago.html

I was watching this live from one of the chasers over on TVN Weather. To watch it live was incredible. Obviously the damage is horrific but to see it in realtime from the chasers was crazy. Especially with the social media element as well. I've been watching streams for a few weeks and seen some good storms on them and a funnel cloud, but this was the first tornado I'd seen in realtime (albiet on video).