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[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's also an el nino year which generally have warmer winters. If it flips to la nina next year we will likely have more extreme winter events in North America like the last few years. We're likely to alternate between very extreme hot and cold weather events every few years because of the ENSO cycle and global warming.