Strange Weather especially in the East

• I love the photo in this article below of three radically different weather events in the same picture. This is the disjointed experience people are having from Texas to Main this Christmas week.
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Icy Start - Cold Bias Much of Christmas Week (2013: a year of strange weather contradictions)

Posted by: Paul Douglas Updated: December 19, 2013 - 11:03 PM

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2013 was another year of head-shaking weather. Yes, the atmosphere has always been fickle, capable of wild extremes, but there's evidence of more volatility in the system.
It was the Year of All or Nothing.
Minnesota's drought eased by late spring, then returned suddenly with a late summer "flash drought". Heavy snow fell in early May and the Arrowhead saw a rare August frost. SPC reported 11 Minnesota tornadoes, a third of what we normally see. But the June 21 "Solstice Storm" produced 80 mph straight-line winds that toppled thousands of trees.
2013 was the quietest year for hurricanes in the Atlantic since 1982, but the Pacific was very active. Typhoon Haiyan was one of the most powerful storms ever observed, leaving over 6,000 dead in the Philippines.
The return of Fresh Air sets off an inch or two of fluff early today, another coating to an inch Saturday night, as a reinforcing clipper arrives. No prolonged thaws are brewing; 20F Christmas Day, maybe 30F the following Saturday, December 28.
Until the pattern shifts and steering winds blow from New Mexico it'll be tough getting any big storms into Minnesota.
At least snow lovers are having a better winter than usual - and we'll all get to enjoy a very white Christmas.
* image above courtesty of funcram.com

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