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NOAA claims that the extensive snow cover last winter was due to Arctic warming and loss of sea ice.
Note that there has been no trend for as long as Rutgers has been keeping records, and that the snowiest winter was 1978, which was a period of very thick, extensive ice cover. It was also the coldest winter on record in the US.
The cold and snow last winter was due to a very negative Arctic Oscillation, and the NOAA explanation appears to have successfully confused the entire press corps into believing otherwise.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/2010/10/report_details_warm_arctic-col.html
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