What else will I be right about?

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On about October 5th I wrote this statement:

"I've been predicting this to be a significant cooling year and even with the slight blip upwards in September I'm going to be proven right. I'll even hazard a guess that the first snowfall for the Northern United States will happen in October. And I'm referring to the plains states and not Montana, which has already gotten new snow in it's mountains."

So I'm wondering two things this morning:

1) Who else woke up to snow this morning? Where do you live (Just give your state and whether you live in the Northern part of your state or the Southern part of your state.)

2) I would also like to know if you also believe this to be a significant cooling year and why you feel this way. And if you can please provide any websites that you read on a daily basis to help you come to this conclusion.

JimZ · Accepted Answer

Coming from South Dakota, I didn't think anything existed North of North Dakota but lemmings (well I guess some people act like lemmings).  Many of my family is back in Dakota.  I feel for them.  It is Cold Cold Cold.   Please predict balmy tropical weather for their sake.  This global warming is freezing them.  They may have to migrate south.

Author Unknown · Answer

Forecasting snow in October is a pretty safe bet when you are using half a continent as the source of your data. Even the Farmers Almanac can make that forecast. 
Up until last year I lived just north of the North Dakota border and we routinely got at least one snowfall in September.

My prediction is that it will be a warmer than average in parts of North America for the remainder of 2009 and the entire next decade.

Specifically things will begin to go above average in November and continue above average for Eastern North America throughout the 2009-2010 winter.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.pdf
http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/pna/nao_index.html
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt

Edit: "We haven't had snow this early in the year for TWENTY years "

Edmonton, Alberta: 21 August 1992,  The earliest recorded snowfall in Edmonton since record keeping began in 1884.

It hadn't snowed in Edmonton that early in over a hundred years and hasn't snowed there that early since. 
What's your point?

Dana1981 · Answer

So you made an accurate prediction of your local weather?  Congratulations.  Why is this question in the global warming section?  YA has a Weather section.
http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/index;_ylt=Am7cS9G.G2FrnUGhNFjMCjIjzKIX;_ylv=3?link=list&sid=396546055

2009 is on pace to be in the top-5 hottest years on record globally.  So if your prediction was about global temperatures, you were dead wrong.

Anonymous · Answer

You're right that you're going to regret being in Minnesota this winter. :-)

Good luck with that.

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