The month of February was a particularly difficult one weather-wise for the Northeast, and now that the month is over, it’s officially a record-setting month.

Record cold temperatures were set in eight cities, and Boston received record snowfall last month, making the region a “standout” globally, according to Art DeGaetano, director of the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University, who was quoted in an Associated Press report.

The New York cities of Ithaca, Buffalo, Syracuse, and Binghamton all set records for coldest month ever, with Buffalo hitting an average of just 10.9 degrees, beating the 1934 record by half a degree. The normal average for that city is 26.3.

Syracuse, meanwhile, hit a bone-chilling 9.0 average, and Binghamton hit 12.2 while Ithaca ended up with 10.2. The National Weather Service also said Rochester broke its February record with a 12.2-degree average.

It wasn’t just New York state. Hartford, Connecticut set a record with 16.1, and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania was at 20.9. All the way up in Portland, Maine, the average was 13.8. Those figures are a whopping 11 degrees below normal. And if that isn’t cold enough for you, Caribou, Maine set a new record at 2.5 degrees.

Then there was the snowfall. A total of 64.8 inches of snow was dumped on Boston last month, which handily beat the old record of 41.6 inches as snowstorm after snowstorm pounded the city. Also, if it gets just 5.6 more inches between now and the end of May, it will be the snowiest winter ever for the city, which so far has 102 inches of snow compared to a normal amount of 34 inches.

Providence, Rhode Island also set snow records, recording 31.8 inches in February, and the total is currently 60 inches for the winter, which is double what is normally experienced in that city.

As far as what caused the snowstorm, sometimes there are no simple answers. Weather forecasters believe it’s just luck of the draw — or unluckiness, if you live in Boston.