, Robinson says — conditions driven in part by human-induced climate change. The northeast is among the fastest warming regions in the country.
The polar vortex, which spins like a whirling top above the North Pole, also remained strong through mid-January, which kept the colder air bottled up in Canada, according to Judah Cohen, who studies the relationship between the polar vortex and the weather and is the director of seasonal forecasting for Verisk AER.
Caroline Nagy moved from New York City to Troy in upstate New York with her husband in hopes of catching colder and snowier winters. It hasn't turned out as she expected. “A warm month is one thing," says Nagy, “but a warm winter is scary.”The warmer conditions have been especially hard on traditional winter sports.
Many lakes and ponds have not frozen over, including the Great Lakes, where less than 12% of the surface area was covered with ice as of early March, according to NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The historical average for this time of year is closer to 40%.
Just think of all the money they saved by not running snow plows.😁
Snow's here! It's all in California this year!
Does the same theory apply to the West Coast? Climate change has been going on four thousands of years...long before automobiles and factories.
hahaha! love it! wondering what caused the glaciers to melt thousands of years ago.. vehicle exhaust?
Yahoo Do not tell that to the Republicans in Congress because they still say that there is no change in the climate.
Really...
UMM1776 😂😂😂😂😂 Nice story.... they're paying him way too much
Bull crap.