The US broke thousands of heat and storm records in Winter 2017 - take a look

AP Photo/Michael Dwyer & Image courtesy of Quinn Murphy

Left: Pedestrians struggle against the wind in Boston during a rare March 14 blizzard. Right: Quinn Murphy and a dog enjoy a hot February day in Chicago.

In February, t-shirt, sun-on-your-skin weather came early in states from Illinois to New York. Now, midway through March, Americans across the East Coast are trudging through snow banks in boots and parkas.

In California, dirt that had dried to a fine dust after years of drought now feels wet and Earthy underfoot. A barrage of rainstorms have caused the state's lakes and reservoirs, once dangerously low, to rise enough to threaten dams and surrounding communities.

It's been a very weird winter in the US. So much so, in fact, that it's easy to lose track of all the bizarre, historic stuff going on.

So here's a list.