Weather.com - 4/15/13, Andy Cox, Nick Wiltgen
In March 2013, below-normal temperatures dominated in a swath from the Northern Plains to the Southeast. Temperatures were generally at or above normal across the Southwest as well as in New England.
March 2013 was the driest March in 47 years and the coldest since 2002, according to a report released Monday by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), an arm of the federal government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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