Cold Winters Caused by Warmer Summers, Research Suggests

Science Daily ^ | Jan. 12, 2012 | ScienceDaily

[dila813]

Scientists have offered up a convincing explanation for the harsh winters recently experienced in the Northern Hemisphere; increasing temperatures and melting ice in the Arctic regions creating more snowfall in the autumn months at lower latitudes.

Their findings may throw light on specific weather incidents such as the extremely harsh Florida winter of 2010 which ended up killing a host of tropical creatures, as well as the chaos-causing snow that fell on the UK in December 2010.

Published January 13, in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research Letters, this new research suggests that the trend of increasingly cold winters over the past two decades could be explained by warmer temperatures in the autumn having a marked effect on normal weather patterns, causing temperatures to plummet in the following winter.

[norwaypinesavage]

If these “scientists” had predicted this BEFORE it happened, I might have given them some credibility. Their hand waving and excuses AFTER the event simply exposes them and their cult as phony. They have no more credibility than Harold Camping explaining why the world didn't end last May.

[norwaypinesavage]

"I grew up in the 1950’s and we have VERY severe winters"

Me too. There were four or five winters IN A ROW where the snow depths were over my head.