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Northeast Snowpocalypse – Winter Season Severity Index – 2020: Second Hottest Year on Record?
Snowfall Potential Next 36 Hours NOAA and AerisWeather No Winning Snowfall Lotto Anytime Soon Minnesota won’t win the Snow Lotto anytime soon. That distinction goes to Pennsylvania, where up to 30 inches may pile up by Thursday. Over a foot of snow may plaster New...
Near-Blizzard Conditions Possible Mid Atlantic and Northeast Wednesday-Thursday
Unsafe icePaul Douglas Smaller Snow Events Loom Larger Now ”Paul, back in my day we called an inch or two of snow FLURRIES!” I’ve seen variations of that theme over the years and I can’t disagree. The paradox: as winters shrink, Decembers warm, snowfall becomes more...
Odds Favor Not-So-White Christmas for Most of USA – Analysis of Record 2020 Hurricane Season
Santa Not Intimidated By A Mild December ”I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year” wrote Charles Dickens in “A Christmas Carol”. Neither Hanukah nor Christmas has been cancelled, but a blizzard of infection will make this a holiday season...
Dreaming of a Brown-Green Christmas? Mild Bias Continues Next 2 Weeks
Mid-December or early October?Paul Douglas What a Wondrously Troubling December Go with the flow, roll with the punches. Someone should set that to music in 2020. My December gardening is not going well. I keep watering the hydrangea, but so far no sprouts. Mow the...
ARkStorm Risk to California – Chinese Weather Modification – Mental Health Risks of Fire Season
Tracking Inversions, Not Snowstorms Truth be told, I have an aversion to inversions. They annoy meteorologists and anyone else hoping to glimpse a little blue sky. Normally temperatures cool with altitude, but when the sun is low in the sky, feeble and ineffective,...
Where’s Winter for Much of the USA? 2020 May Be Second Warmest Year on Record
Just Over 3 Weeks Until Daylight Increases "Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for foregiveness, or else forgiving another" wrote Jean Paul Richter in the 18th century. As we head into the darkest months of winter and the pandemic I'm hoping we can give...