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although with weather like this going on, it makes one wish that we could control the weather and change the outcome. But I doubt that even when that finally becomes doable that the people in charge would even consider altering the weather to make it snow more along the east coast/megalopolis. If you want snow move to lake effect country, it snows there regardless of the pattern!

it was 40-50 inches from Queens county on east across Long Island, I'd call it a B- winter but only because of the extreme warmth in December, aside from that it was a B+ Getting a 30 inch snowstorm here was amazing- I may never see that again.

gas company is going to pay $3 million for faulty gas lines that sparked massive fires near Boston

well NYC did have the rare below zero low on Valentines Day. We had other heavy snow events besides the big blockbuster though, one of those brought down a crane in the city. It was JFK's 40 inch / 40 degree winter

anecdotally I feel that dry summers often follow winters like this

what frustrates me is that we've been talking about controllable fusion since the 80s....we've had so many technological advances in so many fields since then, why is it taking so long to develop viable fusion reactors?

2050 sounds about right. I think most are getting more worried about the Antarctic because of the implications of a rapid ice melt there. My question is- do we really need an outlier winter like this to get ice growth in the Arctic regions? Very few winters are going to have a + AO like this winter has had.

February is right up there too

melting of the antarctic ice sheet can cause a quick sea level rise in 10-20 years

thanks Don, and it also makes business sense because it's the fastest growing sector of the job market. Not to mention the savings in health care costs. Whats going on with Wells Fargo? I know they were recently fined $3 billion for that scam they were running from 2002-2016 (opening fake bank accts and charging customers interest) and their former CEO got banned from the financial industry), but in regards to energy, have they also moved away from funding the fossil fuel industry?

maybe there's a different way to read that article- do you have an account there? anyway, I could see where both could be true, where what happened during the 1700s had a different cause from what's going on now. I'd love to read that piece too.

nuclear power can work but they need to do a far better job than Japan did with Fukushima. and why is switching to Fusion taking so long? we've been talking about it for 40 years now. Maybe we need to start genetically modifying humans to make them smarter so they can do this faster.

just look at what's been occurring in the middle of the country, in states like Iowa and Nebraska, farms there have been underwater for two years running. They're losing billions of dollars because they cant grow crops anymore.

well, even if you dont subscribe to anthropogenic climate change, there are many other reasons to stop using fossil fuels, chief among them the health impact they have in urban areas, rising rates of asthma, etc. There has been a civic movement in east coast cities like Providence, RI, to move factories that use fossil fuels out of their cities because of breathing problems people living there have from them. So moving onto a new source of fuel is beneficial for health along with economic reasons.

Access options Subscribe to Journal Get full journal access for 1 year $199.00 only $3.83 per issue We're just talking about super el ninos here, starting with 1982-83.... what occurred during the 1700s wasn't subject to any kind of scientific measurement.

the lowest temp for Greenland is actually -89 which occurred on the Summit research station on top of their ice cap back in the 80s.

it has to do with the unprecedented type of weather that has been occurring on a large scale. Looks like Russia loves it because they're about to open Siberia for farming and will be feeding the world since America's bread basket will become unviable for farming.

that makes no sense when renewable fuels represent the fastest growing economies and sectors of the job market. At some point you have to move on from the old.

I love how some like to bend backwards to make excuses for the fossil fuel cartel, which is one of the most corrupt cartels on the planet, right up there with big pharma. at least some are seeing the light- Goldman Sachs just pulled all its funding for fossil fuel drilling and put $500 million into renewable fuels, and Delta just put $10 billion over 10 years into achieving carbon neutral by 2030. Amazon just put $10 billion into renewables also. Now we need to go after Chase and Wells Fargo, who have problems of their own.

I was driving on I-80 near the Delaware Water Gap on Monday and I saw a forest fire just ahead of me and above me, first time I've ever seen that- let alone in February! It was named the Rock Face Fire and it was burning 70 acres last I heard, and it was on Mt Tammany on the Jersey side.

but high end ninos do seem to be occurring more often since the 80s.

there is no safe side- I guess people dont care that it's ruining their health too. Darwinism always wins....

this "winter" looks like it's going to go down in the record books, along with 72-73, 89-90, 97-98, 01-02, 11-12, as among the worst of all time. I wonder if there's a way to calculate the worst winters overall across the entire country, this one would sure be among the top ten there also.

the weirdest thing I've seen this season was that forest fire I saw near I-80, I had seen smoke in the same area back in August 1995, but this was the first time I've ever seen an actual forest fire. Crazy to see that in February! I heard that San Fran hasn't seen any measurable rain in February for the first time, so they must be worried about forest fires on the west coast too.

at this rate I wouldn't be surprised if I saw tumbleweed barricading my front door like that guy in WA had! I was driving on I-80 near the Delaware Water Gap on Monday and I saw a forest fire just ahead of me and above me, first time I've ever seen that- let alone in February! It was named the Rock Face Fire and it was burning 70 acres last I heard, and it was on Mt Tammany on the Jersey side.