UK MET is staffed by fools or liars or both. US East is warmer then normal? That is a bald face lie, it is and has been damn cold here in east Texas, my water pipes frooze for the first time ever last night and tonight is going to be colder still. Wish the English would do something about the liars at the UK Met and BBC.
To be fair not US NorthEast but American Northeast - ie the North American continent - which has indeed been exceptionally warm in Ellesmere and Baffin Islands.