Weather
There is no scientific reason for this relationship to work, but we can check it out using past records.
Global climate change is real; but cannot possibly account for the 13- to 16-degree anomaly in December.
Now that poles have been replaced and power is back on, a look at the incredible numbers connected to the crisis and how this weather event ranks at the top for the power providers.
The winter of 1886-87 experienced 15 days with daily low temperatures of at least 30 degrees below zero and three days of at least 40 below.
Going back 134 days to Aug. 27, only 14 days have not been warmer than average.
No, it cannot be said that the record warmth of December was directly related to the changing climate.
Had the high and low temperature for all 31 days this past December been 15.6 degrees colder, it would have been an average month.
This winter's warming/cooling cycles are shaking up day-to-day life of outdoor city workers
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The Baumgartners were just one family among thousands of customers who had their power knocked out across Cass, Richland, Sargent, LaMoure and Barnes counties after the Christmas Day ice storm
Highs were in the -20s and lows ranged from -38 to -48 degrees.
StormTRACKER Meteorologist John Wheeler talks about the changing winter weather pattern.
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John Wheeler
Lydia Blume
Jesse Ritka
Robert Poynter
Dillon Vogt
Charles Pekar
Robert Daley
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