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Don’t scoff when you hear an old timer say: “Summers are hot- ter than they used to be.” This remark could once have been classed with “Stairs are steeper than they used to be,” and “Young people are wilder than when I was a boy.”

But today an impressive number of scientists, both old and young, are convinced that the oldtimers are right.

 

07 Oct 1951 – Glaciers, Icebergs melt as world gets warmer By …

NOAA’s 2013-14 Winter Outlook

Nov 21, 2013

warmer-than-average temperatures this winter are expected from the Desert Southwest into the Southern Plains and Deep South.

NOAA’s 2013-14 Winter Outlook  Mild South – weather.com Save Money This Winter

Two weeks later, the US appears headed for possibly the coldest December on record.

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

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A WOMAN was “appalled, shocked and embarrassed” when her stuffed monkey’s five centimetre pistol was confiscated at airport security in the US.

King5 News reports that Phyllis May was travelling from St Louis to Seattle and had a couple of sock monkey dolls, which she sells, in her carry-on luggage.

“His pistol was in there,” she says of the sock monkey “Rooster Monkburn,” a play on John Wayne’s character “Rooster Cogburn” from the film True Grit.

Ms May was travelling with her husband and going through the screening process when a TSA agent held up her bag and asked who it belonged to.

After Ms May came forward the TSA agent said “this is a gun,” referring to the five-centimetre toy pistol on the sock monkey.
“I said no, it’s not a gun it’s a prop for my monkey,” Ms May said.

The TSA agent then informed Ms May that not only was she confiscating the gun but that she was required to call the police.

Rooster Monkburn monkey’s toy gun ‘a flight risk’, says TSA agent | News.com.au

The missing heat is really starting to kick into overdrive.

Fort Collins Weather Station Data Plots

The Arctic is melting, but when Arctic air comes to Montana it is -35C.

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Table A-10. Selected unemployment indicators, seasonally adjusted

House and Senate negotiators were putting the finishing touches Sunday on what would be the first successful budget accord since 2011, when the battle over a soaring national debt first paralyzed Washington.

The deal expected to be sealed this week on Capitol Hill would not significantly reduce the debt, now $17.3 trillion and rising. It would not close corporate tax loopholes or reform expensive health and retirement programs. It would not even fully replace sharp spending cuts known as the sequester, the negotiators’ primary target.

Budget deal expected this week amounts to a cease-fire as sides move to avert a standoff – The Washington Post

Intellicast – Snow Cover in United States

As of this morning, almost all the states had snow cover – which is amazing for early December. The snow cover is a lot more extensive this evening.

Climate geniuses tell us that snow in the deep south is the result of an increase in humid air, caused by Mann-made global warming.

h/t to Andy DC