It's already one of the coldest and snowiest starts to the winter season in parts of the Northeast, Midwest and Plains, and we haven't finished November yet.
According to the Accumulated Winter Season Severity Index (AWSSI) from the Midwest Regional Climate Center, 74 cities from New England to the Plains and Rockies have seen an extreme season-to-date of cold and snow as of Nov. 27.
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Cities categorized as having an extreme winter, so far, ranked in the 99th percentile of the index for Nov. 27.
A combination of persistent cold from the Northeast to the Plains and a pair of expansive winter storms, Avery and then Bruce, gave this winter season a fast start.
Solar cycle 24 was exceptionally weak and cycle 25 is shaping up to be similar. Some have predicted that, if the trend continues, Earth may experience a "mini ice age" soon due to increased cloud formation reflecting the warming light from the sun: https://astronomynow.com/2015/07/17/diminishing-solar-activity-may-bring-new-ice-age-by-2030/
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 29 2018, @10:56PM (20 children)
Interestingly, winter is not found in any European art until the 1400s [wikipedia.org]. This coincides approximately with the beginning of the so-called Little Ice Age [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 29 2018, @11:05PM (1 child)
Moron. That's because white paint was only invented in 1406.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 29 2018, @11:16PM
Source? I see plenty of white paint used before that. Then wikipedia pissed me off so much with all its javascript, so I stopped for now and installed noscript.
Here is an example with white paint from 12th century:
http://www.webexhibits.org/pigments/intro/medieval.html [webexhibits.org]
(Score: 5, Informative) by ikanreed on Thursday November 29 2018, @11:34PM (15 children)
You
are
fucking
retarded
This [artinsociety.com] was fucking Italy in 1390 you insufferable piece of shit. Stop using the most tangential connections your conservativism addled brain can come up with to excuse your special and extraordinary stupidity with regards to basic science.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 29 2018, @11:47PM (11 children)
All I see is speculation there. Is there like a declaration by the church not to paint snow because it wasn't mentioned in the bible? I mean it sounds reasonable, but what is the evidence for any of that? Also, some of those quotes don't seem to be from the wikipedia page I linked to. Where are they from?
Is there a name for this painting? Is that the earliest you could find? Year 1390 is close enough for the original coincidence to hold (Little Ice Age started ~1300).
And I am sorry you have had all curiosity drummed out of you via adoption of toxic political views. I don't know how else to explain a post like this one.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by aristarchus on Friday November 30 2018, @12:22AM (10 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @12:41AM (8 children)
Solar cycle may be, it may be not.
A pity ethics doesn't allow for the use of them as subjects, there would be many hypotheses to test in trying to get an explanation (assuming there is one).
Also, they are so naturally suited for 'double blind' type of studies.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday November 30 2018, @12:52AM (7 children)
None are so blind as those that are 'double-blind' and will not see!!
(working on closing my quote tags. . . .)
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday November 30 2018, @02:37AM (6 children)
So - you're ready to admit that global warming has been happening for thousands of years, with or without any input from man? How long ago did the ice age end? Of course, global warming started long before the end of the ice age. If it hadn't, the ice age wouldn't have ended! Yes, there truly are none so blind as he who will not see.
Meanwhile, the beavers are conquering the Alaskan northwest. https://www.alaskapublic.org/2018/07/11/beavers-are-moving-into-the-arctic-you-can-see-it-from-space/ [alaskapublic.org]
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday November 30 2018, @04:23AM (4 children)
Truly, Runaway, Truly you are obtuse, in a rather baroque fashion. I have no idea what you are trying to say. Is this about your six-grade teacher and the "coming ice age" thing, again? Or do you just have a thing about beavers?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @05:19AM (3 children)
With a head start of a couple of millennia, you're safe; he still has some work to get to a rocaille level of obtuseness.
FTFY... a troubled childhood he had. Truly.
A bit more grown up than the infantile master buzz, with his fixation on boobs.
But now, who are you to cast value judgements on what keeps their mast red and raised?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday November 30 2018, @02:56PM (2 children)
Not sure whether you deserve +1 funny or +1 hilarious. Doesn't matter though, 'cause I can't find the hilarious button.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday December 01 2018, @07:13AM (1 child)
That will happen more and more, Runaway, as you mentally deteriorate right in front of God and everybody here on SolylentNews. I can understand how you cannot find the "Hilaryioius" button, your engrams having been fried by Faux News. And I can understand how you cannot find the "funny" button", since your sense of humor is conservative, which means you can only make funny by denigrating others, you lowlife hillbilly pig fucker! Oh, oh dear! Did I stoop to your level? And you cannot recognize it as such? You really need to just shut the fuck up, Runaway, your "opinions" are of no use to anyone but your own pathetic self esteem. And if you did not understand the parent post, I suggest you, 1. Learn Engllsh and 2. practice reading comprehension. But beyond that, just shut the fuck up, because your opinions are of no matter except that they are your opinions, and the only reason they are even that is that SoylentNews does not censor anyone, not matter how fucked-in-the-head, Batshit-crazy, or just plain khallow they are. Looking for the "Rural Arkansawian Hillbilly totally snookered by an Australian con-man and a New York Real Estate con artist. How dumb do you have to be to fall for BOTH of these, Runaway, you ignorant slut?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday December 01 2018, @09:34AM
The voice of experience.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 04 2018, @10:14PM
https://xkcd.com/1732/ [xkcd.com]
More oblig then usual.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @02:31PM
Hmm, I don't know. I haven't seen frojack in a long while.
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I ran a 8 year experiment back in the 80s when one of the art stores was singing the praises of their bio-degradable medieval paintings. Tacked a couple to the sunny side of a shed, and staked a couple more on the ground. Ten years later my wife took them down and threw them in the recycle when we moved out of that house.
Statute of limitations on false advertising had already expired.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 29 2018, @11:55PM
Look here:
https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1256/wea.164.03 [wiley.com]
So I am not the first "fucking retarded" to notice this coincidence.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @12:50AM (1 child)
I must say it amuses me to see other users finally having had enough of the bullshit around here. Such ignorance paired with a lack of reading comprehension should be punishable by having them test out of k-12 one grade at a time.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday November 30 2018, @01:45PM
Online forums are supposed to work that way, ie. everyone speaking up. It's not an environment for those who cannot put their big boy pants on, to be sure, but it is equal opportunity.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @06:34AM (1 child)
Did you somehow fail to read more than the first sentence of the first article you link to? The next two sentences already give an explanation that contradicts yours:
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @03:47PM
No, but I can tell the difference between speculation and facts. I dont just blindly believe what I read, on wikipedia or otherwise.