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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.
Possibly related: The sun has been blank for over a month now: http://www.sidc.be/silso/dayssnplot
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 08 2019, @12:39PM (1 child)
So, global warming theory predicts the exact same thing as the cyclical ice age theory.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday November 09 2019, @01:04AM
No? Global warming predicts that one consequence in the short to medium term is powerful *localized* cooling. The planet's energy budget is still going up, it's just possible that a few specific places won't immediately see it. Energy moves, and one such way it moves in the current milieu is a big northward heat pump called the Gulf Stream. Shut that down, and ALL that heat stays in the tropics.
When we get to the point where the entire planet *does* start uniformly warming, we are irrevocably screwed, because that means every single moderating negative feedback provided by the ocean-atmosphere system has been overwhelmed.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...