article_snippet: Most of America has spent this winter shivering in a colder-than-usual polar plunge that's seen almost every state turned white and the Great Lakes freeze over.
article_snippet: But in Alaska, residents are wondering what's become of the blizzards and arctic lows that usually characterize Alaska.
article_snippet: The rest of America has had a frigid winter .
article_snippet: We took a frigid winter!
article_snippet: Winter of two Americas:
article_snippet: Climate figures showed that Winter of two Americas has seen western states experience unseasonable warmth, while the east shivered.
article_snippet: Alaska has been warmed by the same phenomenon heating California .
highlights_snippet: Winter has seen snow in almost every state, and frigid lows in the Northeast - but Alaska is balmy by comparison .
  
highlights_snippet: Alaskan warmth and frigid lows further south are both caused by atmospheric movements in the jet stream .