Apparently there is this thing called the Arctic Oscillation and right now it's really oscillating itself.

Article explaining the correlations

Article about the record breaking weather and freezing cold

Might be a really miserable February!

October was cold, November was warm. December started out cold but overall was pretty tame temperature wise. Now it's January and it's a bit colder but the real cold stuff stayed North of us.

This week we have highs in the single digits to the low teens and lows around 0 to the single digits below.

That's typical January weather for here.

Yeah up around Edmonton, coldest spot on earth one night this December! Around here though November was like the October we never had... so if things are to average out there might be come really cold days coming.

Is it really all that cold so far? I thought it was pretty average, and the snowfall has been weak sauce.

Your first link on the Arctic oscillation didn't work. Hopefully this one does:
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/20...llation&st=cse

Ghetto cruiser, it has certainly been cooler these last few days...

Thanks for fixing the link gerv!

Coldest monitored spot on the planet for a few minutes in December (Siberia beat us later). But, that same week we hit -45... we hit +1! 46C temperature swing in less than a week wtf?

Usually we only get into the -30's one or twice a winter. Seems like we're hitting that at least bi-weekly.