(CNN) -- What's with this wacky weather?
It's so
cold in Florida that farmers joke the oranges are squeezing themselves to stay
warm.
But
Alaska is so warm that a ski resort's been forced to close.
Add to
this curious mix, giant waves in
Hawaii, a historic
drought in California, and bears coming out
of hibernation in Nevada, and you can't help but wonder: What is
going on with the weather?
"It's
not actually that unusual," says Roger Edwards, a meteorologist with the
Storm Prediction Center at the National Weather Service.
Usually a
few times each winter, the temperatures flip-flop where Tallahassee is colder
than Anchorage.
"But,"
he says, "this one is more persistent than we normally see."
On
Tuesday, 10 inches of snow fell on MetLife Stadium, which hosts the Super Bowl
in 10 days.
Contrast
that with Anchorage, Alaska, where Thursday's forecast high will be around 45
degrees. A typical high would be in the low 20s.
Waves up to
50 feet high have been pounding the North Shore of Oahu -- the largest Hawaii's
seen since 2004.
What's
causing it? A large storm with hurricane-force winds that's sending a giant
swell toward the island. The surf peaked overnight, the weather service
said.
California's
facing perhaps its worst drought since record-keeping began a century ago,
California Gov. Jerry Brown proclaimed this month.
The
National Weather Service's forecast for Incline Village, Nevada, for instance,
calls for high temperatures heading to or well past 50 degrees for the next
week at least, with nary of snow flurry in sight.
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