Coolest Winter Since 2001
A recent NOAA press release states that this winter has been the coolest since 2001 across the entire globe (NOAA: Coolest Winter Since 2001 for U.S., Globe). The numbers are for the climatological winter, not the calendar winter.
It's worth nothing that the word "coolest" is a relative term, so even though it was the coolest since 2001, temperatures across the United States averaged 0.2F warmer than the 20th century average. It's the same globally. While the combined land and ocean surface temperature was the 16th warmest on record, it was the coolest since 2000-2001.
There is a lot of information in the release, so I encourage you to read it yourself and make your own analysis.
