It has been warm and the winter forecast from my company back in August called for exactly what has happened so far.
Here were the headlines:
- Plenty of potential for a severe winter.
- East will have to overcome early warmth.
- SST analogs are amazingly close to a blend of 2013-14 and 2014-15.
- Warm northeastern Pacific and cooler Nino1+2 usually a great cold signal.
- Snowfall should be generous.
Line number 2… early warmth, wherein our discussions talked of a “false flag” of early cold in November and the October update added this:
“It’s like the last two cold Novembers, December will turn out to be an uneventful month. Then cold and snow will take over the latter part of the winter.”
So it was supposed to warm up after the false flag of an early cold.
The very warm weather at this time of the year is typical of years where there is an El Niño Modoki, where the Southern Oscillation index is negative and the central tropical Pacific is warmer than the eastern tropical Pacific.
That is plainly the case:
Many of theses winters start and then end late, which is what our detailed forecast reflected. It does not mean it has to happen. It does mean that what we have seen so far with a cold November, a warmer December is typical of winters that turn severe.
So why, if you knew that, would you try to make hay out of it being warm now when it can backfire in a couple of weeks.
The current warm spell is being pushed by the usual suspects as a sign of climate change. This idea is laughable and displays either ignorance of the past, deceitfulness if they do know, and arrogance in thinking that you actually know what is going to happen tomorrow. We put out forecasts but I know darn well I could be wrong, The fact is what you see now is a KNOWN PRECURSOR to severe winter periods that followed. So is that going to be climate change too? It’s like they are swimming in ignorance as to what the weather has done and can do. I will just show a few of many examples to rebuff the nonsense
Lets go to a recent example that most people can remember. The 10 days before snowmageddon had many in the weather community thinking winter was over. We got off to a fast start in December that year with the pre-Christmas snowstorm but mid-January was warm, much like it is now our current warm spell. This was a stronger modoki winter, and it always seems like in those winters there is a 2-3 week spell of very warm weather that shows up before the real deal does.
Lets go back further to 1967 where record warmth in the east the last 2 weeks of Jan that year:
How about Dec 20-Jan 9 1966:
Following 30 days:
We find three major snowstorms in a row that ended with the blizzard of 1966.
So here we are, the last 10 days so warm:
Would it be a surprise if what this Climate model run has for Jan 12-Feb 11, be a surprise? Or climate change? Or is it just what has happened before happening again?
The climate issue is much more than climate. The very fact that you have an army of people that are weaponizing the weather and want to silence debate, that either do not know what happened (and what can easily happen again) or do know. They simply march on anyway as blind zealots do and have the arrogance to actually believe they know the outcome of an infinite system. One that has always reacted to natural, not man-made forcing is well beyond just a climate issue . That should be enough to make one skeptical. Skepticism is NOT DENYING, it is questioning. It is knowing and understanding what counter ideas are saying, acknowledging them and yet doing the work to come up with the right answer. I don’t know any of my skeptic cohorts that have not dug into all the pro AGW arguments they can get their hands on, constantly looking. That is a far cry from the other side, which obviously would not be attributing a warm spell of December weather in line with past years, as a sign of climate change or in the lingo of today, “Climate emergency”.