The December 29th issue of Time Magazine, page 46, predicted "CLIMATE STRANGE" ahead in the next several years, a pattern of WIDE WEATHER ‘EXTREMES’ that I’ve been forecasting for decades in the Coeur d’Alene Press and other sources.
The article, written by Bryan Walsh, said to "forget ‘global warming’ and get ready for ‘global weirding.’" I certainly wouldn’t argue that climatological assumption to say the least.
Just in the past few weeks, we’ve seen a near-record cold month of November with all-time record SEVEN FOOT SNOWFALLS in my hometown of Hamburg, New York south of Buffalo.
By extreme contrast, we’ve also seen record warmth in mid to late December that melted off all the snow, even at the higher elevations in the Northeast at the ski resorts.
Last winter, thanks to a strong, cold ‘polar vortex,’ saw 91% of the Great Lakes freeze over by the beginning of March, the second largest extent of ice in more than four decades.
Up north, along the U.S./Canada border, there were more than 100 mornings between November and mid March with subzero temperatures. The winter of 2013-14 was the coldest in 200 years in some parts of North Dakota and Manitoba.
While much of the country east of the Rockies last winter saw much below normal temperatures and above normal amounts of snow, by extreme contrast, drought-parched California had its warmest and driest winter on record, a great example of ‘global weirding.’
It remains the firm climatological opinion of yours truly that the next decade or so will see a pattern nationwide of long, cold and often snowy winter seasons, followed by short, hot summers with widespread drought conditions that probably will result in a GLOBAL FAMINE sometime prior to late 2018 or early 2019, maybe even sooner in parts of Africa, Asia and the Mideast.
