The poet T.S. Eliot said April was the cruelest month, but the distinction belongs to February.

Next to January, its almost equally awful predecessor, it’s the bitterest month of the year. In the U.S. we saw icy temperatures freeze the Northeast, blizzards wallop the Plains, and floods deluge California.

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