The cold returns

Had a nice little warmup at the rancho last week, with highs in the 70s for several days. Almost like a return to a normal winter, i.e. mild. That all changed Sunday morning when a new cold front swept through whose near-freezing temps are expected to last most of this week.

All part of what could become one of the ten coldest U.S. winters on record. (Though it’s wise to remember that the reliable record is rather short.) The warmists contend it’s a result of the polar vortex being moved south due to melting Arctic ice. But the melt is in September, at the end of the Arctic summer, and that hardly seems capable of causing a cold winter 2 to 4 months later.

So, more likely the cold winter is just because it’s happened before in our normally variable climate and, once more, it’s happening again.

UPDATE:  And arctic “icecover bounced back over 50% [in 2013] with one of the coldest arctic summers on record while new records for ice were set in Antarctica, even trapping a research ship this past month, during the Antarctic summer.”