In January 2014, the “polar vortex†swept across the eastern USleading some media outlets to claim this was the “coldest weatherin decades†in Baltimore between Jan 6 & Jan 8. It turns outthat only 5 years prior, in 2009, Jan 15 – Jan 17 were 5 degreescolder in Baltimore than the coldest temperatures in 2014. Why didthese media outlets say it was the “coldest weather in decades�Many statisticians say that it is a mistake to look at weathertemperature records the way that media outlets looked at theBaltimore \"record\"; why do you think they say this is a\"mistake\"?
