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http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/2007-07-29-more-hurricanes_N.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/mar/04/hurricanes-global-warming

I’m just back from a week in New England, which is frozen solid and buried under feet of snow. They have another foot of snow on the way.

http://www.accuweather.com/

And winter temperatures in the forecast through at least the third week of March.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/aug/10/climatechange.arctic

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/aug/10/climatechange.arctic

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http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/6100646

h/t to Ivan

[Major screw up. I got the columns in my spreadsheet messed up. Winter 2010 was colder, as was 1986, 1991 and 1996.]

December-February averaged 2.73C in England, which was the second coldest winter since 1891.

http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcet/cetml1659on.dat

1684    0.67
1879    0.83
1740    1.37
1814    1.40
1820    1.73
1963    1.73
1830    1.90
1880    1.90
1871    1.93
1677    2.00
1716    2.00
1891    2.07
1766    2.10
1698    2.17
1795    2.23
1660    2.33
1695    2.33
1757    2.37
1741    2.40
1789    2.43
1763    2.47
1808    2.47
1679    2.50
1685    2.50
1689    2.50
1776    2.57
1861    2.57
1797    2.60
1780    2.63
1799    2.63
1802    2.63
1678    2.67
1681    2.67
1841    2.73
2011    2.73

As usual, the Met Office was spot on with their forecast.

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/

Masters said as the Earth gets warmer and more moisture gets absorbed into the atmosphere, it increases the chances of more extreme storms in all seasons which would be capable of causing greater impacts on society.

Masters pointed out that in each of the past two winters the northeastern United States has been hammered by three snowstorms that qualified as Category 3 storms or worse on the Northeast Snowfall Impact Scale.

“If the climate continues to warm,” he added, “we should expect an increase in heavy snow events for a few decades, until the climate grows so warm that we pass the point where it’s too warm for it to snow heavily.”

http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/

This is a fascinating theory, except that the region he is talking about had far below normal temperatures during the meteorological winter. Shouldn’t Jeff Masters have checked this out before going to the press?

http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/products/maps/acis/nrcc/Last3mTDeptNRCC.png

The southeast US also had far below normal temperatures.

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