In the battle of
the winter weather predictions, what a great showdown we have in store this year!
Not exact matches
our flurries have a
prediction date but not an appearance yet, i'm patiently waiting to see what kind of
winter is in store this season — but no matter the
weather, always one full of deep belly laughs and sweet sighs.
Each
winter, the
weather channel makes that awful
prediction: «This is going to be a terrible
winter.»
The Storm
Prediction Center is responsible for forecasting (identifying, describing, and quantifying) the risk of severe
weather caused by severe convective storms (specifically, those producing tornadoes, hail 3/4» or larger, and winds 58 MPH or greater), as well as
winter and fire
weather.
Data from Summit also impact real - time
weather prediction, particularly in the
winter due to the station's proximity to the North Atlantic storm track.
I received an e-mail yesterday from Judah Cohen, a commercial
weather and climate analyst who made a
prediction in late December for a particularly cold pattern of North American temperatures through the remainder of the
winter — based on his hypothesized link between autumn snow cover in Siberia and
winter conditions on this continent.
In making its seasonal
prediction, forecasters cautioned that there are large portions of the country for which there are no clear indications whether it will be a warmer, colder, wetter, or drier than average
winter, largely due to a fickle El Niño event that may have petered out too early to have much of an impact on North American
winter weather.
Similar conclusions are reached in a numerical
weather prediction context by T. Jung et al. at ECMWF (GRL 2011: http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2011/2011GL046786.shtml) who performed very detailed sensitivity analysis of the origin of the very persistent negative NAO (blocked phase) during the
winter of 2009 - 10.
Also See: Watch Now: Climate Depot's Morano on Fox News Mocking «Climate Astrology»: «This is now akin to the
predictions of Nostradamus or the Mayan calendar» — Morano: «There is no way anyone can falsify the global warming theory now because any
weather event that happens «proves» their case... Man - made global warming has ceased to be a science, it is now the level of your daily horoscope» — Gore [in 2006 film] did not warn us of extreme blizzards and record cold
winters coming»
Climate Depot's Morano on Fox News Mocking Gore's «Climate Astrology»: «This is now akin to the
predictions of Nostradamus or the Mayan calendar» — Morano: «There is no way anyone can falsify the global warming theory now because any
weather event that happens «proves» their case... Man - made global warming has ceased to be a science, it is now the level of your daily horoscope» — Gore [in 2006 film] did not warn us of extreme blizzards and record cold
winters coming»
When the Climate
Prediction Center last month issued an El Niño watch for next
winter, the media jumped on news of the
weather phenomenon as possible salvation for the Golden State.
Reliable and accurate
weather prediction is vitally important in numerous areas of society, particularly agriculture and water management and
weather risks are evaluated by a wide range of businesses, including power distributors who make fewer sales during cool summers and more sales during cold
winters.