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posted by martyb on Thursday November 07 2019, @07:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the build-more-wind-farms-to-push-it-back dept.

Punishing blasts of potentially record cold will bring an early winter preview to millions of people in the central, eastern and southern U.S. over the next few days.

The core of the first round of cold will gradually shift from the north-central U.S. into the Great Lakes and Northeast Wednesday through Saturday, making it feel more like the middle of winter rather than early November in some places, according to AccuWeather meteorologist Jake Sojda.

As the cold sweeps east, some snow is also likely in portions of the interior Northeast Thursday into Friday. The heaviest snow should fall in northern New England, where some spots could pick up half a foot.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/11/05/arctic-cold-blasts-bring-winter-weather-us-november/4165270002/

Possibly related: The sun has been blank for over a month now: http://www.sidc.be/silso/dayssnplot


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 07 2019, @03:47PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 07 2019, @03:47PM (#917360)

    The touted out of drought rain came too early in the season, and while the volume looked at in spreadsheet terms was correct, its actual on the ground effect was heavily diminished. It only took a week or two after their announcement that 'California is out of the drought!' for the ground on my property to be bone dry again (slightly less than last year, since it didn't visibly crack.) The long and the short of it is that gardening was unsustainable again this year, and everything from grass to privets turned brown. Even NATIVE trees were shedding their leaves multiple times over the year due to the severity of the lack of CONSISTENT rainfall. Ground doesn't magically absorb all the water that pours down on it. Without a consistent month to month volume of water, or a more comprehensive canopy to hold it in, the environment will dessicate immediately after the water stops flowing, not unlike the Oklahoma dustbowl of decades past.

  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday November 08 2019, @03:47AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday November 08 2019, @03:47AM (#917728) Journal
    Sounds like you're a great candidate for xeriscaping [wikipedia.org]. Start growing rocks and then it doesn't matter how little it rains!