Do you bother to check the data or do you just opine? You are right in that Colorado had a warmer than usual winter this past year, however the United States as a whole did not. You did not check to see that the 206-2007 and 2007-2008 winters were colder than normal in Colorado.

I cannot observe the weather here in TV and project it upon the rest of the country. The advantage of using US temperature is that it provides the best database for a large land mass. For example, since 1895, Florida’s average annual temperature has declined by .08 degrees/decade and Colorado’s has increased by .12 degrees/decade. Colorado’s precipitation is declining by .06 inches/decade and Florida’s is increasing by exactly the same amount. The nation as a whole has seen virtually no change in the amount of precipitation received.