NOAA claims that January temperatures in the US were average.
They made a little mistake though. Great Lakes ice extent was at an all-time record high for the date at the end of January.
Unless the freezing point of water has changed, NOAA is committing blatant, unabashed fraud with the US temperature data. They adjusted January temperatures upwards by almost six degrees relative to 1949, as an extension of a 3.4F/century data tampering trend over the last 70 years.
January was actually the 19th coldest on record in the US since 1895, with no trend since the start of records.