>> country is enjoying unseasonably warm weather and it has people asking what happened to winter? nbc chief environmental affairs correspondent anne thompson is in central park . good morning to you.
>> reporter: good morning, matt. it will feel more like may 1 than february 1 as the thermometer pushes 60 in new york today. this after a january in which record highs outpaced record lows by a ratio of 18 to 1. in upstate new york where lake george is only partly frozen they are trucking in ice to build the winter carnival castle. thin ice in patterson, iowa took the lives of two friends out fishing.
>> you look at it and it's just you slip in judgment and it catches you.
>> reporter: across the country, this is the most unusual winter. 2,890 daily records tied or broken this january. more than four times as many as last january. february will get off to a warm start . chicago and st. louis predicted to be 14 degrees above average today. new york city , 20 degrees and minot, north dakota , a dramatic 22 degrees warmer than normal. it is the polar opposite of last february 1st .
>> this is a monster of a storm. more than 2,100-mile stretch of more than a foot of snow could fall over the next 48 hours .
>> reporter: damage from the groundhog day storm topped $1 billion. the difference between then and now? the location of the jet stream . last year it dips deep into the u.s. bringing frigid churs and snow from canada. this year it's hovering at the canadian border .
>> the systems are coming across the country and bringing mild, sometimes gulf air allowing for incredible record highs.
>> reporter: it is confusing crops in california, blooming too soon.
>> a normal winter is cold and wet. but not 85 degrees for a week and a half.
>> reporter: the sandhill cranes are returning to lincoln county , nebraska, a month ahead of schedule. so, yes, even nature is confused. now scientists are unwilling to win any one weather event on climate change but they say there is no question that our warming world is shifting the odds against a traditional winter as we have known them. matt?
>> anne thompson in central park where it will hit 60-something
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