USA breaks another record with warmest winter

It was so hot that the Iditarod had to ship seven rail cars of snow from Fairbanks to Anchorage so the mushers would have enough of the white stuff to race. It was so hot that two Vermont ski resorts, accustomed to 250 inches of prime powder, closed last month due to lack of snow.

No, those aren't the punchlines to a bad joke. Turns out the numbers and the record books show it's no joke at all: The U.S. saw its warmest winter on record – a whopping 4.6 degrees above average.

Read the USA Today story - “USA breaks another record with warmest winter.”