While spring officially starts tomorrow, several HVAC contractors are still waiting for winter to arrive. The national average temperature across the 48 contiguous states in January was 36.3 — 5.5 degrees above the 1901-2000 average, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center. Data shows January was the fourth warmest January on record since 1895, and the warmest since 2006.
“We are experiencing the warmest winter we’ve had in many years,” said John McCarthy Sr., owner of McCarthy’s One Hour Heating and Cooling, Omaha, Neb. “We only get a few days of cold and then it warms back up. It is usually the total opposite.”