with the lag effect it's likely to result in colder weather after the first few days of January, and remember it doesn't necessarily mean we get snow, it could even result in a suppressed storm track as what happened in Jan 2002
Humidity is definitely what makes it so uncomfortable
July 2010 I think had a 90 degree average high and it was a lot more comfortable than most of these high humidity summers.
Walt, I see next Saturday it's supposed to hit 60 again? I wasn't aware that it would be cold enough for another winter storm after the one on Wednesday.
Isn't the warming around the edges of winter a logical outcome of the changing climate....one would expect December to warm the most because of rising SST increasing the lag to winter time cold and March should also be warming based on it being a fringe month. January is the last holdout, and we should expect our heaviest snows to shift from February to January as February is more sensitive to a warming climate than January is.
I've yet to have anyone adequately explain why sunrises and sunsets are so out of sync with each other. My perfectionism makes me want humans to geoengineer the planet to "make it so"