Warm In Fargo-You Betcha.
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2010Posted by: JeffMasters, 4:06 PM GMT on January 06, 2012 +37
Flowers are sprouting in January in New Hampshire, the Sierra Mountains in California are nearly snow-free, and lakes in much of Michigan still have not frozen. It's 2012, and the new year is ringing in another ridiculously wacky winter for the U.S. In Fargo, North Dakota yesterday, the mercury soared to 55°F, breaking a 1908 record for warmest January day in recorded history. More than 99% of North Dakota had no snow on the ground this morning, and over 95% of the country that normally has snow at this time of year had below-average snow cover. High temperatures in Nebraska yesterday were in the 60s, more than 30° above average. Storm activity has been almost nil over the past week over the entire U.S., with the jet stream bottled up far to the north in Canada. It has been remarkable to look at the radar display day after day and see virtually no echoes, and it is very likely that this has been the driest first week of January in U.S. recorded history. Portions of northern New England, the Upper Midwest, and the mountains of the Western U.S. that are normally under a foot of more of snow by now have no snow, or just a dusting of less than an inch. Approximately half of the U.S. had temperatures at least 5°F above average during the month of December, with portions of North Dakota and Minnesota seeing temperatures 9°F above average. The strangely warm and dry start to winter is not limited to the U.S--all of continental Europe experienced well above-average temperatures during December...
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Obviously some weather pattern is preventing the snow and cold from moving south. Which is fine with me because I think it's beautiful. 
http://www.adn.com/2012/01/10/2256673/season-snow-to-date-breaks-previous.html
Wednesday morning update: The National Weather Service is forecasting 9 to 18 more inches of snow for Anchorage starting before midnight tonight and continuing through Thursday.
If you think Anchorage has a lot of snow, you're right. When the skies cleared on Monday after this weekend's traffic-snarling blizzard, the season snowfall total stood at 81.3 inches according to the National Weather Service. That's a record for any season as measured from the first snowfall through Jan. 9. It's nearly double what Anchorage receives by that date in a normal year and four inches higher than the previous record.
The previous record for Jan. 9 was 77 inches set in 1995. The winter of 1994-95 is recorded as the third snowiest winter in Anchorage, with 121.5 inches falling before spring came. In third place for total snowfall as of Jan. 9 is 1955, with 74.7 inches. The full 1954-55 season was the snowiest ever recorded in Anchorage, with 132.8 inches. Other top total-to-date seasons for Jan. 9 are: 1964-65, 67.9 inches; 1958-59, 59.3 inches; and 1996-97, 58.6 inches. The average total season snowfall for Jan. 9 is 41.6 inches.
