With about a week to go in the month, the average daily mean temperature for March is running just about exactly average.
This is remarkable because there has been measurable snow on the ground just two days this month. This suggests the overall weather pattern has favored colder-than-average weather and it is just the absence of snow that has kept things closer to average.
For ten consecutive months going back to May of 2016, the average monthly mean temperature has been above average. April 2016 was nominally colder than average. Before that, there were ten consecutive warmer-than-average months going back to May of 2015, which was the last significantly cold month we had.
This adds up to an almost two-year run of consistently warm weather. Perhaps the present cool trend is evidence that the overall warm trend will begin to fade.
