There are, of course, plenty of places where winter isn't nearly as harsh – not just this year, but any year. In fact, there are many places in America that occasionally enjoy summerlike warmth even in the dead of winter.
We ranked the 50 hottest winter cities in the U.S. by combing through National Weather Service historical temperature data for every metropolitan area in the U.S., as defined by the federal government in 2013. For each metropolitan area, we looked for the hottest temperature ever recorded in the months of December, January and February – "meteorological winter" – for the principal city or cities in that metropolitan area, using the most reliable observation data available. In some cases, we threw out data that were inconsistent either with surrounding observation sites or with the observation site's own data for other days within the same time frame.
There were many ties, so we broke them first by giving a higher ranking to cities that achieved their wintertime high more than once. For example, a city with eight 90-degree days would beat a day with only two 90-degree days, assuming neither city had ever hit 91 or above.
Remaining ties were broken by giving the higher ranking to the city whose record was set the most recently. There was one pair of deadlocked cities that these two tiebreakers didn't resolve, so we broke that tie by looking at the second-highest wintertime highs for each city.
Laredo, Texas: 103ºF,Austin, Texas: 101ºF,McAllen, Texas: 100ºF,San Antonio, Texas: 100ºF,College Station - Bryan, Texas: 99ºF.
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