According to temperatures recorded at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, this is the coldest December on record in North Carolina. The average temperature was 33 degrees through the first half of the month, which is nearly 12 degrees below normal for this time of year. And some days were bitterly cold, with temperatures falling into the single digits / lower teens - struggling to warm to above freezing by mid-afternoon. The driving force behind all this cold weather? An unusually strong and persistent low pressure system over Greenland and Nova Scotia which has been locked into place, driving Arctic air south across much of the country.
The second coldest year on record occurred before I was born ... back in 1958!
To put this recent cold snap into perspective, average temps in NC have been more in line with those usually experienced in Maine in early December. Oh yeah ... this is going to mess with the garden.
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