Somewhere between the end of November and the 21st of December when winter officially begins we see things getting a little bit nasty. The combination of longer nights with the higher angles of sunlight striking the ground turn the northern hemisphere of earth much colder on average than what they are in the summer months. Add to this the effects of global warming which shift the curve of extreme weather to become more likely and you have a recipe for some interesting wintertime events to occur. In my part of the world, that would translate quite often into ice storms.
So am I saying that we will experience more ice storms for the winter of 2011-12 here in southwest Missouri? No, I saying that the ODDS are getting more and more stacked in that direction. So, while we might have a nice mild and dry winter, the odds are increasingly against it.
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