The weather is cuckoo this winter, but there's method to the madness

There is method to the meteorological madness.

And it has served to spread the weirdness around the world, from the American West all the way to Russia, a climate expert from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.

The drought parching California; those two snowpocalypses in the South; the unrelenting New England snow; the sopping soaking of the UK; short sleeves on Sochi's snow-hungry slopes.

This article also talks about the drought in California, which seems to be one of the main focuses in the weather world

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/15/us/weather-weird-pattern/index.html