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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, Offtopic) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday November 30 2018, @01:53AM
Today in San Diego it rained literally for the first time in the whole year. Also, it was pretty damn warm up until a few months ago. I remember even a few years back here it was blazing hot as late as Halloween.
Now, if we're gonna discuss "miserable starts to winter here, let's talk about how the migrant economic tourist hordes in Tijuana arrived just in time to be rained the living fuck on. And, for a number of reasons, I don't exactly feel bad for them. At least when "fearing violence and starving" in Honduras, they had some kind of housing to protect them from the rain. In TJ, they sleep in tents in a muddy rainy baseball field with even their own Mexican brothers an ass-hair away from beating the shit out of them.
Yep, the start of Winter. Good for some, not so good for others. Sure, climate change is happening, the same way its been happening for millions of fucking years. Climate skeptics are not skeptical of climate change and known damn well that shitting in their well makes bad drinking water. What they are skeptical of is the politicization of climate change, because we are told that we must accept unskilled refugees and give more taxes and money to people because -- climate change.