At a Glance

Many National Weather Service offices in the southern U.S. have issued more winter storm warnings than their northern counterparts.This includes two Florida NWS offices and seven in Texas.A barrage of four winter storms across the South during the past five weeks is the main culprit for this upside-down winter so far.

Many Southerners are already winter-fatigued and it's only mid-January, but it's hard to blame them – some southern National Weather Service offices have issued more winter storm warnings this season than their colleagues in the North.

Snow and sleet covered the ground Wednesday following swipe across the Midwest, South and East Sunday through Wednesday. That included the Florida Panhandle, where snow or ice has fallen on .

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The map below from the shows the number of winter storm warnings issued by each NWS office since Oct. 1, 2017.

Values on the map indicate the number of winter storm warnings issued by the corresponding National Weather Service offices from Oct. 1, 2017, through the morning of Jan. 18, 2018.

(Iowa Environmental Mesonet/Iowa State University)

The Jacksonville and Tallahassee, Florida, offices have each issued one winter storm warning this season, more than Aberdeen and Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Lincoln, Illinois; St. Louis; Kansas Cityand Hastings, Nebraska, which have not issued a winter storm warning yet this season.

Many of the NWS offices along the Gulf Coast and in the Deep South have also issued one winter storm warning, including Brownsville, Texas – located at roughly the same latitude as Miami – Houston; Dallas/FortWorth; New Orleans; Atlanta and Mobile, Alabama.

Every office in the Carolinasexcept Charleston, South Carolina, has issued two or three winter storm warnings this season, which is more than or equal toChicago (two); Pittsburgh (two); Detroit (two); Minneapolis (two) and Milwaukee, Wisconsin (one).

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The leader in the South is currently the Wakefield, Virginia, NWS office, which covers southeastern Virginia and far northeastern North Carolina, with four winter storm warnings issued so far. That ties the Boston office and is more than the New York City, Philadelphia/Mount Holly and Baltimore/Washington D.C. offices, all with three.

A barrage of winter storms over the past five weeks, featuring , , and , is the culpritfor the number of winter storm warnings issued in the South. While these storms also brought snow and ice to portions of the Midwest and Northeast, those regions have a higher threshold necessary for the issuance of a winter storm warning since winter weather is more common there.

The lower number of winter storm warnings near the eastern Great Lakes, such as at the Binghamton, New York, Buffalo and Cleveland NWS offices, is because those offices issue lake-effect snow warnings for heavy lake-effect snow rather than winter storm warnings.

If there's anygood news for the snow-fatigued, the majority of the U.S.is either or close to passing it,based on 1981-2010 climatological averages.

Both the and outlooks from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center favor increased odds of above-average temperatures across much of the South and East as we approach the final week of January.

Keep in mind, however, it's only mid-January. This upside-downwinter will likely change, as late January into February is typically a in the Midwest and Northeast.

Brian Donegan is a digital meteorologist at weather.com. Follow him on,and .