Not exact matches
According to NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies, Kansas will be 4 degrees warmer in winter without Arctic ice, which regularly generates cold air masses that flow southward into the
U.S. (You've probably heard
weather forecasters say the following hundreds of times: People in the middle part of the country had better button up.
It is likely that the
U.S. will continue to experience unusual, erratic, or severe
weather patterns well into 2016: This year's record - breaking El Niño is expected to extend through the spring of this year, and
forecasters caution that we still haven't experienced the brunt of it yet.
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forecasters» local knowledge
Based on extensive Siberian snow cover during the fall, the researchers correctly forecasted cold
weather for much of the
U.S., while most other
forecasters predicted warm
weather for the
U.S.. For a comparison between predicted and observed temperature anomalies, please see the following images: forecast temperature anomaly Jan - Feb - Mar 2013 and observed temperature anomaly Jan - Feb - Mar 2013,
U.S. only.
By 2015 most
U.S. broadcast
weather forecasters accepted that global warming was underway: Edward Maibach et al., «A National Survey Of Broadcast Meteorologists About Climate Change: Initial Findings,» George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication (April 17, 2015), online here.
Not only are
forecasters calling for an unusually active season, they also say that there are signs that the
U.S., which hasn't had a major hurricane in a record seven years, may be particularly vulnerable this year due to a combination of
weather and climate factors.