(CNN) -- What's with this wacky weather? It's so cold in Florida that farmers joke the oranges are squeezing themselves to stay warm. But Alaska is so warm that a ski resort's been forced to close. Add to this curious mix, giant waves in Hawaii, a historic drought in California, and bears coming out of hibernation in Nevada, and you can't help but wonder: What is going on with the weather? To be sure, the United States is a giant place -- 3,000 miles wide from coast to coast. But even taking that into account, what you have here has to be at least a tad bit out of the norm.
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An Alaskan ski resort gets rain instead of snow
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Large parts of the U.S. are 15 to 25 degrees below normal
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The National Weather Service says this isn't "that unusual"
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Frost and freeze advisories stretch to South Florida
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