Story continues after photo gallery. February chosen to get an 'unlucky' amount of days Pompilius changed the months so they alternated from 29 to 31 days, and then left February as the exception ...

So he added January and February to the end of the calendar." The original Roman calendar divided the year from March to December into 10 months of either 29 or 31 days, based on lunar cycles ...

H ow February looks: For the month as a whole, most of the East and South are expected to be warmer than average, particularly from the mid-Atlantic and Southeast to coastal and southern Texas.