Last month was very cold in the eastern US.  From NASA:

And yet, while the eastern US was very cold, the northern latitudes were overall very warm:

You can see the trend from the anomaly map but the zonal mean vs latitude plot is quantitative.   Anyhow, Sen. Inhofe and his snowball?  What a buffoon.  It’s been so warm in Alaska that they’ve had to reroute the Iditarod.