Meteorological winter will go into the record books tied for warmest in 112 seasons of record-keeping in the Hartford area.
The average temperature for the months of December, January and February was 35.2 degrees.
The other winter season with a mean temperature of 35.2 degrees was 2001-2002, with the third warmest winter now being 2011-2012.
Additionally, the Bridgeport area tied the record for warmest winter. Records there date back 68 seasons to 1948-1949.
In the Bridgeport area, the average temperature for this winter was 38.5 degrees.
Remember, December smashed records as the warmest December on record.
It's worth mentioning that the 2011-2012 winter shows up in the top three warmest both inland and on the shoreline.
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That winter preceded the warmest March in recorded Connecticut history, when the inland temperature hit 70 degrees seven times and even eclipsed 80 degrees once.
