"Not that scientists have been predicting this sort of thing for years now. Well, maybe they have. But what do "scientists" know about science?!"

The poles are warming faster than the latitudes nearer the equator from them.

The polar ice is melting.

Thus, the polar vortex is doomed, and is falling apart now a little at a time (odd cold spells floating south).

When that polar vortex is gone expect extreme weather ... oh yeah ... we already have extreme weather.

It will get even worse "soon enough."

Riiiiiight... like one of the two or 3 snowiest cities in the US (Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse - all within 150 miles of each other and subject to similar lake effects, mind you...) hasn't been dumped on before (most recently 82 inches of snow fell the last week of 2001)
I guess 'weather' only becomes 'climate' when the climate change Cassandras deem it so.

Unsolicited suggestion to Lennie Pike--

Yes, it's just one storm in a region that gets socked a lot. But as Brad alluded to it's another weird weather event. I don't think even Buffalo gets socked like this in the third week of November, as a rule.

So my unsolicited suggestion is to take a slightly wider view of weird weather happenings. Cuz that's what they started predicting, I don't know, thirty years ago, or so? They predicted the warming planet would bring about increasingly weird weather.

Hmmmm--Katrina, Sandy, Vermont flooding, Oklahoma being smashed repeatedly by tornadoes, parts of England getting swamped in formerly unseen ways, and on and on...all in the last ten years. When was the last time you saw so many extreme weather events in less than a decade?

As a resident of the Upstate NY snowbelt city of Syracuse, which usually beats out Buffalo for the Golden Snowball award for the most snowfall in a season, I truly pray that this unprecedented disaster is not a harbinger of things to come. November in this area is not known for big snowstorms --- this is VERY early for blizzard weather. What hit Buffalo is way beyond a blizzard --- it is straight out of The Global Superstorm. 10 dead so far and still digging out today. Roofs collapsing, evacuations of elderly & sick people from their homes while roads are being cleaned up. It is a disaster area. But the NFL still wants the Buffalo Bills game scheduled for Sunday in the stadium (which is filled with snow) to happen --- they said they would make a decision tomorrow as to whether to cancel the game or have it at another location. Disgusting. God bless 'Murika!

Lennie Pike @ 2 said:

Riiiiiight... like one of the two or 3 snowiest cities in the US (Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse - all within 150 miles of each other and subject to similar lake effects, mind you...) hasn't been dumped on before

First, Lennie, you may want to read MK Retuas' comment @ 4.

Second, if you actually would like to learn something about global warming and how it affected this week's storm in Buffalo (and I suspect you actually don't), you might want to listen to our latest Green News Report...

I guess 'weather' only becomes 'climate' when the climate change Cassandras deem it so.

If by "climate change Cassandras" you mean professional climate scientists who have spent their lives actually studying this and know what they're talking about, then yeah, that's how it works.

Sorry you don't care for science. I'll hope you never need a doctor. Can't trust those medical Cassandras.

That first picture is just amazing.

It's all to do with sunspots, Brad:
https://alethonews.wordp...l-end-to-global-warming/

It's ironic that Lennie writes of "climate change Cassandras". (Two points for that nice alliteration). He should brush up on his classical literature, but that would be book-learnin' fersure! Cassandra's fate was that she would speak the truth but no one would believe her. So in that sense, Lennie is spot on!