It was variable; it was normal.
At last... a month that wasn't below normal!
But that doesn't mean the winter was "normal"... or "average" or "typical." Joe D'Aleo at Icecap summarizes a fairly "atypical" winter. That doesn't stop the media from continuing to print stories about not enough ice ... on the Great Lakes. That, despite the fact that Lake Superior was much frozen over this winter... a fairly rare occurrence.
I guess it takes two months [June, 2008] out of 14 that squeeze out a fraction of a degree over "normal" to get the locals ranting about global warming again.
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