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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @12:52PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 30 2018, @12:52PM (#768248)

    Where I live, the snow hasn't been sticking until after the new year, for about the last decade at least. When I was a kid, it used to /start/ snowing in October. Nowadays... Daytime temps above freezing as we enter December.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 01 2018, @10:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 01 2018, @10:03AM (#768593)

    Sounds like home to me. You *might* have a few flurries of snow around Halloween. By mid-September, you were definitely seeing snow - it may or may not stick for a day or two. By November, the snow was sticking, at least for a couple days, and maybe beginning to build up. December, the snow was building up, and by Christmas there were snow banks everywhere. A lot of the snow was rather ugly, due to traffic, snow plows, people walking in it, and animals pissing on it. If it snowed on Christmas eve, then we had a "White Christmas". Ground Hog Day was of great interest, because we were mostly tired of the snow by then!!