Several Plains Cities Are Having Their Coldest Start to a Year in More Than Two Decades
At a Glance Some cities in the Plains had their coldest January through June in decades.A persistent weather pattern was responsible for cool and wet conditions in winter and spring.The north-central states were cold outliers from most of the rest of the world. Temperatures in the first half of 2019 were the coldest in decades across parts of the Plains because of a stubbornly persistent jet stream pattern in winter and spring. The northern Plains region, which includes the Dakotas,...