I’m clearly not up on the language, and confused about lots of things.
I can remember many years in which the weather really starts to get colder and colder in most of the country by mid-November. Is this not just part of seasonal change? Is there something else going on? Is it part of global warming to see such cold weather hit the country in mid-November? Were we all ignorant back in the day, and just thought seasonal change was behind changes in the weather this time of year? What the heck????
Not to worry over the change in terminology.
Ever since media got hysterical over temperature, GLOWBULL warming, and other exaggerating media events ,
it still is using the English language, fortunately.
I still call it what was named 20 or so years ago : .. an "Alberta Clipper".
It’s called “Winter”.
“Winter” is a non-technical term for Bombogenesis, AKA, “Polar Vortex” (Caused by Global warming, AKA Climate Change), which, years ago in New England, was known as “The Montreal Express”.
My maternal grandfather Bill was not a scientist, but he did recognize the truism that the further NORTH you were, the colder the “Winters”.
Sometimes, the prevailing winds would cause the cold air from Montreal to track south-east and bring large amounts of frozen precipitation into the Boston Area, which was colloquially known as “Snow”. Though white and fluffy while falling, the “Snow” would rapidly take on the varying hues of soot, grime, and dog waste (colloquially known as “poop”), and by law, had to be removed from the public sidewalks by the next day. Snow plows that shoved the aforementioned goulash back onto your sidewalk were no excuse!
Anyway, Bill was a veteran of WW1, and I think he preferred the trenches of Europe to shoveling “Snow”. I used to hear him mutter “DAMN THOSE CANADIANS” as he shoveled!
Second, it seems bombogenesis is a hyper cyclogenesis (not to be confused with just plain ol' cyclogenesis) which is cyclonic in nature and not a "temperature" thing at all
Third ... I have a headache trying to figure this whole thing out and I have to leave for church, anyway.
The local TV weather guy here used to call them 'Alberta Clippers' ... i.e. a cold northern air mass that moved south due to the oscillation of the jet stream.
50-60 years ago, he didn't need CO2 or UN computer models to tell you it was going to get cold as hell when the jet stream dips across the region.
It happened often in the 1970s, (the coldest winters I can recall) and 35 years later, it's happening again. It's natural cycles.
Well I’m just mad because we can’t call it the Siberian Express anymore. :-)