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Flu Time – When the Sunspots Are Jumping? – NYTimes.com

With December snow cover skyrocketing to record levels, and temperatures in the Eastern US 30-40 degrees below freezing, Newsweek speculates on the end of White Christmases.

Which White Christmas Will Be Our Last? Snow In December May Soon Be History—Depending Where You Live

As always, Newsweek has absolutely no clue what they are talking about.

December snow cover has been increasing for 50 years.

Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab

This is due to deep dips in the jet stream bringing Arctic air to low latitudes.

10-Day Temperature Outlook for the Conterminous U.S.

In Irving Berlin’s 1954 musical “White Christmas” – the story line was that the temperature in Vermont was 60 degrees on Christmas Eve, and everyone was “dreaming of a white Christmas.” Christmas Day temperatures peaked in the US in 1955, and have been declining since 1930.

Climate alarmists operate on 100% group think and superstition, and 0% on facts.

Yesterday’s maximum temperature of -12C in Boulder, tied with 1938 as the coldest on record. Average maximum temperature for the date is 7C.

NCAR Foothills Lab Weather (metric, 5-minute)

Democrats believe fossil fuels will cause them to overheat and die. The same fossil fuels which are keeping them from freezing to death.

10-Day Temperature Outlook for the Conterminous U.S.

Temperatures west of the Rockies are well above normal, and temperatures east of the Rockies are record snow and near record cold.  This is identical to the weather of January 1977 – which was blamed on global cooling. The current weather pattern will of course be blamed on global warming.

20 Jan 1977, Page 3 – Valley News

19 Jan 1977, Page 20 – The Town Talk at Newspapers.com

National Geographic : 1977 Dec

In 1977 it was blamed on global cooling.  This time, it will of course be blamed on global warming.

International Team of Specialists Finds No End in Sight to 30?Year Cooling Trend in Northern Hemisphere – The New York Times

DENVER, Feb. 21, 1977  — A group of solar physicists and climatologists told a national science convention today that the bizarre weather of the last year might have been caused in part by abnormal activity on the surface of the sun.

the scientists said that all available evidence pointed to another year or two of cold winters in the Eastern and Central states and drought in the Western United States.

TimesMachine: February 22, 1977 – NYTimes.com

Two weeks later, California’s permanent governor warned of drought disaster.

TimesMachine: March 8, 1977 – NYTimes.com

Blamed on global cooling – of course.

International Team of Specialists Finds No End in Sight to 30?Year Cooling Trend in Northern Hemisphere – The New York Times

In 1977, scientists blamed cold in the East and drought in California on a “lack of sunspots.” A repeat of 2017.

Ahead of the 1932 Winter Olympics, there was no snow at Lake Placid, and it was 66 degrees in New York City.

16 Jan 1932, Page 1 – The Los Angeles Times 

On January 14, 1932 it was 70 degrees in New York.

Temperature approached 90 degrees in Texas, and were in the 60’s all the way into Maine.

Currently temperatures at Lake Placid are -10F, and they have more than three feet of snow.

Whiteface Mountain Resort Snow Report

January 14 temperatures have plummeted in the US since 1930.

It was 5F this morning in Boulder, but 50MPH Chinook winds blew in and quickly raised the temperature more than 45 degrees. UN climate expert and high school dropout Leonardo di Caprio believes this is caused by CO2, rather than atmospheric pressure.

NCAR Foothills Lab Weather (english, 5-minute)

“We live in an unusual epoch: today the polar regions have large ice caps, whereas during most of the earth’s history the poles have been ice-free. ”

– National Academy of Sciences 1975

The National Geographic Archive | November 1976 | page 1