This has been the warmest winter I can remember in Oregon. The trees think it is spring and are coming out, bushes are flowering and the trees as well, there are flowers popping up all over. It has been in the 50's and 60's all month. The skiing is not what it should be as the snow pack is low, if we do not get some snow the fish and farms will suffer this summer. last summer was a hot one as well. I read that the warm ocean currents out west were pushing the jet stream north and then it was coming back down in the east bringing cold with it. So a warm west makes a cold east from the looks of things. We would be happy to share some of the snow and cold for some of our too warm weather.
I keep wondering about that... Boston has feet of snow and no where to put it California and lots of western places have horrible drought. Why can't they just shovel some of all that snow into trains and send it west? If it melts by the time it gets there, it's still water.
I think the diesel smoke had best not be left along the train tracks heading west.
It is a big continent.
As the crow flies, it's 2,500 miles between Seattle and Boston. It's 3,500 miles between Barrow and Boston.
Ocean air moving inland that far north and traveling that many more miles across the continent makes for a wintery mix for the east side of North America.
I always wonder, why we can make these super smart computers, put men in space, but can't figure out how to channel floods that happen in the midwest to drought areas, or like rainbow said, ship some of that snow southwest!