Another Extreme Winter on the Way

Global Warming continues to ravage the land:

The driving early snowstorms and piercing cold winds blasting the Midwest, South, and East Coast – throwing commutes, air traffic, and football schedules into chaos – are the result of poorly understood atmospheric dynamics that may upset predictions of a milder winter for the eastern half of the US.

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin in Madison are among those trying to understand the mysterious interplay between Pacific and North Atlantic weather phenomena that threaten to dunk the Eastern US into a second year in a row of 1970s-style blizzards and cold snaps.

"At this point, this winter looks similar to last winter," says Jonathan Martin, an atmospheric scientist at Wisconsin. "The next question is, why does it look similar, and we're currently not in a position to say definitely what's going on. There are some interrelationships between big pieces of circulation anomaly that feed into one another, including an anomalous pattern over Greenland that's tied into convection in the tropical Pacific Ocean."

On one hand we have a group of scientists who can tell us with absolute certainty that the oceans will rise and the world will be several degrees warmer 100 years from now, and then there's the guys like you have in the story above who can't even tell us how cold it will be this winter.

I know, I know - weather is not climate, but still if the so-called experts can tell us what the earth will look like 100 years from now I would think they could get pretty close on what this winter will be like.

Meanwhile, my friends in North Dakota are running this graphic on the radio station's website:

It gets cold up there.