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It's Been One of the Most Miserable Starts to Winter on Record in Many Parts of the USA

posted by martyb on Thursday November 29 2018, @10:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the misery-loves-company dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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.

https://weather.com/news/weather/news/2018-11-27-winter-misery-index-awssi-extreme-start-november-2018

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/

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by VLM on Thursday November 29 2018, @11:03PM (2 children)

    by VLM (445) on Thursday November 29 2018, @11:03PM (#767998)

    Looks like an ENSO aka el nino thing will develop this winter, probably doesn't help with stuff being messed up

    http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/lanina/enso_evolution-status-fcsts-web.pdf [noaa.gov]

    Oscillation on top of oscillation on top of oscillation, all adds together, maybe adds up to a winter that sucks. When I was a kid "biorhythms" were the new astrology, but some of the meteorological oscillations publicized since then seem to be real...

    Not so unusual or bad where I live, so far.

    Avery and then Bruce

    Storm names suck. I'd rather see shitty mass media doing astrology than this weird naming stuff. I propose for culture hacking we start naming nice warm days after cartoon characters, "the 'porky pig' weather front brought us rainbows and butterflies today" etc

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 29 2018, @11:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 29 2018, @11:32PM (#768019)

    Are you familiar with the himmicans vs hurricanes issue? If those storms had female names it would have been far worse for everyone: http://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8782 [pnas.org]

  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday November 29 2018, @11:56PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Thursday November 29 2018, @11:56PM (#768044) Journal

    "GREAT BIG SCARY AWFUL MOTHER FUCKING rainbows coming your way today, SLUTTY sunshine for all."

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