Much of the country is still recovering from a monster winter storm, but January has been marked by a high number of heat records.
From record-low snowpack in the West to numerous high temperature records shattered coast to coast, the start of the year has been more indicative of a rapidly warming climate.
So far this year, over 200 temperature records have been broken nationwide, according to data collected by the nonprofit Climate Central. A vast majority (171) of these records were daily high temperature records set in the first half of the month, which is four times the number of low temperature records set in January (40)…