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More Snow and Cold Weather to Hit Northeast

Christ, we just can't shake winter...

Just spent the entire weekend outside in shorts (even got sunburned!) and now snow. Screw this. 🙁
 
Snowing like hell right now here in NW NJ. Blowing a stink, too. 34F.
 
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Gaddamnit just turned on the light outside and it's fuckin snowing! Suburb of NYC.

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It snowed quite a bit in Toronto this morning. I was none to pleased about having to brush my car off when I went in to work. I had put the snow brush away a couple weeks ago. Snow in April is not unheard of but it's usually just wet flurries. We got something like 5cm of wet, heavy stuff.

It's absolutely freezing out right now. -6c with a wind chill of -12. That's the kind of temps you get in early March, not mid-April. We're a hair shy of breaking a record low that's stood for over 70 years. Though Niagara Falls I'm hearing will likely break their record low for this date.

Fortunately it's going to go back up to normal by the end of the week. It's been a brutally long and cold winter this year. No wonder the IPCC is freaking out lately.
 
Captain Howdy said:
So, basically, meteorology is a soft science at best?
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I wouldn't put it that way. I would say meteorologists study a large, chaotic system with a very high degree of complexity. The window within which they can make reliable inferences about what it is and will be doing is continually getting wider.
 
Markbnj said:
I wouldn't put it that way. I would say meteorologists study a large, chaotic system with a very high degree of complexity. The window within which they can make reliable inferences about what it is and will be doing is continually getting wider.
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It's like medicine, the human body is incredibly complex. We still make discoveries about it even though we've been studying it since the beginning of mankind.

http://xkcd.com/1126/

The mouse-over text is interesting. We've learned a lot about predicting the path of hurricanes, but there are a lot of things we still aren't good at.
 
jaedaliu said:
It's like medicine, the human body is incredibly complex. We still make discoveries about it even though we've been studying it since the beginning of mankind.

http://xkcd.com/1126/

The mouse-over text is interesting. We've learned a lot about predicting the path of hurricanes, but there are a lot of things we still aren't good at.
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It's pretty amazing to think that not so many years ago we didn't know a hurricane was coming at all until it was reported by a ship using radio, or it arrived.
 
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