The winter of 2014-15 was the warmest on record worldwide, released by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Wednesday. Departure from average temperature December-February. Red areas were above average and blue areas were below average. NOAA says that December through February – for meteorological record-keeping purposes, winter is defined as those three months in the Northern Hemisphere – was 1.42 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th-century average for all land and ocean areas. This tops the previous warmest winter of...