{"id":388156,"date":"2025-07-11T09:30:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T07:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=388156"},"modified":"2025-07-11T09:30:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T07:30:57","slug":"noaas-2020-prediction-bust-u-s-winter-outlook-cooler-north-warmer-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=388156","title":{"rendered":"NOAA\u2019s 2020 Prediction Bust: \u201cU. S. Winter Outlook: Cooler North, Warmer South\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"723\" data-attachment-id=\"388159\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=388159\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-24.-Mai-2025-20_11_24.png?fit=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ChatGPT Image 24. Mai 2025, 20_11_24\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-24.-Mai-2025-20_11_24.png?fit=723%2C723&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-24.-Mai-2025-20_11_24.png?resize=723%2C723&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-388159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-24.-Mai-2025-20_11_24.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-24.-Mai-2025-20_11_24.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-24.-Mai-2025-20_11_24.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-24.-Mai-2025-20_11_24.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-24.-Mai-2025-20_11_24.png?resize=800%2C800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-24.-Mai-2025-20_11_24.png?resize=600%2C600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-24.-Mai-2025-20_11_24.png?resize=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-24.-Mai-2025-20_11_24.png?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-24.-Mai-2025-20_11_24.png?resize=450%2C450&amp;ssl=1 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-24.-Mai-2025-20_11_24.png?resize=60%2C60&amp;ssl=1 60w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ChatGPT-Image-24.-Mai-2025-20_11_24.png?resize=550%2C550&amp;ssl=1 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/uncategorized\/u-s-winter-outlook-cooler-north-warmer-south-noaas-20-21-prediction-bust\/\">Master Resource<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/about#btruth\">Robert L. Bradley, Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Editor\u2019s Note:&nbsp;<\/strong>Master Resource\u2019s founder and editor, Rob Bradley, is currently struggling with the aftermath of torrential flooding in the Texas Hill Country. Until he can return to work, he has asked me to post \u201cclassic\u201d MR entries. Yesterday, he called in to suggest the following blog post would be a suitable classic. It ran initially at MR on March 11, 2021. \u2014Roger Donway, Managing Editor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By way of introduction, Rob writes: \u201cTo critics, NOAA not only provides information, but misinformation based on climate models and attribution studies. The post below provides the example of NOAA\u2019s prediction leading into the Texas Winter of 2020\u20132021.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNOAA\u2019s timely and accurate seasonal outlooks and short-term forecasts are the result of improved satellite observations, more detailed computer forecast modeling, and expanding supercomputing capacity,\u201d said Neil Jacobs, Ph.D., acting NOAA administrator. (below)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201c<em>Cold extremes decrease&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>and warm extremes increase in a warmer world, and&nbsp;<strong><em>cold extremes tend to be more sensitive to global warming than the warm ones.<\/em>\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;(emphasis added)&nbsp;<em>Science Bulletin<\/em>, below<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Humility in the face of unknowns is a worthy attribute. And when it comes to the Earth\u2019s climate, in the whole and regionally, a prediction can be worse than no prediction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enter climate models, the Department of Commerce\u2019s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and politics. And a very bad result for the South this winter.&nbsp;<em>The lack of weatherization in Texas for traditional power plants, in particular, might well have been influenced by the climate narrative of warmer winters.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NOAA Misfire<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The October 15, 2020,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/media-release\/us-winter-outlook-cooler-north-warmer-south-with-ongoing-la-nina\">Press Release<\/a>&nbsp;from NOAA speaks for itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/products\/predictions\/long_range\/seasonal.php?lead=2\">NOAA\u2019s winter forecast for the U.S.<\/a>&nbsp;favors warmer, drier conditions across the southern tier of the U.S., and cooler, wetter conditions in the North, thanks in part to an ongoing La Nina. Forecasters at NOAA\u2019s Climate Prediction Center \u2014&nbsp;a division of the National Weather Service \u2014 are also closely monitoring persistent drought during the winter months ahead, with more than 45% of the continental U.S. now experiencing drought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNOAA\u2019s timely and accurate seasonal outlooks and short-term forecasts are the result of improved satellite observations, more detailed computer forecast modeling, and expanding supercomputing capacity,\u201d said Neil Jacobs, Ph.D., acting NOAA administrator. \u201cFrom expansive and multi-hazard winter storms to narrow but intense lake effect snow, NOAA will provide the necessary information to keep communities safe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently, large areas of drought extend over the western half of the U.S., with parts of the Northeast also experiencing drought and near-record low stream flows. With a La Nina climate pattern in place, southern parts of the U.S. may experience expanded and intensifying drought during the winter months ahead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWith La Nina well established and expected to persist through the upcoming 2020 winter season, we anticipate the typical, cooler, wetter North, and warmer, drier South, as the most likely outcome of winter weather that the U.S. will experience this year,\u201d said Mike Halpert, deputy director of NOAA\u2019s Climate Prediction Center.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Temperature<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The greatest chances for warmer-than-normal conditions extend across the Southern tier of the U.S. from the Southwest, across the Gulf states&nbsp;and into the Southeast. More modest probabilities for warmer temperatures are forecast in the southern parts of the west coast, and from the Mid-Atlantic into the Northeast. Above-average temperatures are also favored for Hawaii and western and northern Alaska.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Below-normal temperatures are favored in southern Alaska and from the northern Pacific Northwest into the Northern Plains, with equal chances for below-, near- or above-average temperatures in the remaining regions\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About NOAA\u2019s seasonal outlooks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NOAA\u2019s seasonal outlooks provide the likelihood that temperatures and total precipitation amounts will be above-, near- or below-average, and how drought conditions are favored to change. The outlook does not project seasonal snowfall accumulations; snow forecasts are generally not predictable more than a week in advance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seasonal outlooks help communities prepare for what is likely to come in the months ahead and minimize weather\u2019s impacts on lives and livelihoods. Empowering people with actionable forecasts and winter weather safety tips is key to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/wrn\/about\">NOAA\u2019s effort to build a more Weather-Ready Nation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Climate Model Misfires<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Data-hound Bjorn Lomborg recently exposed the \u201cglobal weirding\u201d argument that the human influence produces the opposite of global warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CBS [Ben Tracy] &amp; Kerry say \u201cMany people wrongly believe that climate change only relates to temperatures increasing, not decreasing.\u201d But the reality is that *all* climate models show less frost, fewer cold days, fewer cold nights.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lomborg then&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BjornLomborg\/status\/1363120426596016130?fbclid=IwAR2b2ZgV8saGvjQJ2_84-MzQtcdNPyUJZBPUU_zaL4IF5SXWTK5jFfvgp5I\">links<\/a>&nbsp;to graphs showing that ALL Climate Models predict fewer cold days and cold nights. He then links to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S2095927317305583?fbclid=IwAR1_T_wSKlc62w9IrEhxzFWZWBUcXdz1kZNku5kzKTkwx_xYrYYpzkPf2ck\">Future extreme climate changes linked to global warming intensity<\/a>,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Science Bulletin<\/em>&nbsp;(December 30, 2017), where the authors state:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Based on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/earth-and-planetary-sciences\/cmip\">Coupled Model Intercomparison Project<\/a>&nbsp;Phase 5 (CMIP5) daily dataset, we investigate changes of the terrestrial extreme climates given that the global mean temperature increases persistently under the Representative Concentration Pathways 8.5 (RCP8.5) scenario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Compared to preindustrial conditions, more statistically significant extreme temperatures, precipitations, and dry spells are expected in the 21st century.&nbsp;<em>Cold extremes decrease&nbsp;<\/em>and warm extremes increase in a warmer world, and&nbsp;<em>cold extremes tend to be more sensitive to global warming than the warm ones.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the global mean temperature increases, cold nights, cold days, and warm nights all display nonlinear relationships with it, such as the weakening of the link projected after 3\u202f\u00b0C global warming, while the other indices generally exhibit differently, with linear relationships.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cGlobal Weirding\u201d to the Rescue<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In trying to square the record cold with global warming, CBS &amp; Kerry (above)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2021\/feb\/19\/john-kerry-endorses-climate-weirding-term-warns-of\/\">settled<\/a>&nbsp;on the term \u201cglobal weirding.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ben Tracy, &nbsp;senior national and environmental correspondent for CBS,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2021\/feb\/19\/john-kerry-endorses-climate-weirding-term-warns-of\/\">asked<\/a>&nbsp;guest John Kerry about the recent cold snap:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some people get hung up on the term \u201cglobal warming\u201d and say, \u201cwell, I thought everything\u2019s supposed to get warmer?\u201d I heard one scientist say this is really \u201cglobal weirding.\u201d Is that a better way to think of this?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kerry&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2021\/feb\/19\/john-kerry-endorses-climate-weirding-term-warns-of\/\">answered<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think it\u2019s a very appropriate way to think of it. It\u2019s directly related to the warming even though your instinct is to say, \u201cwait a minute. This is the new ice age.\u201d But it\u2019s not. It is coming from the global warming and it threatens all the normal weather patterns.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where did the catch-all \u201cglobal weirding\u201d come from? Thomas Friedman might have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/17\/opinion\/17friedman.html\">popularized<\/a>&nbsp;it in the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;eleven years ago:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Avoid the term \u201cglobal warming.\u201d I prefer the term \u201cglobal weirding,\u201d because that is what actually happens as global temperatures rise and the climate changes. The weather gets weird. The hots are expected to get hotter, the wets wetter, the dries drier and the most violent storms more numerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fact that it has snowed like crazy in Washington while it has rained at the Winter Olympics in Canada, while Australia is having a record 13-year drought is right in line with what every major study on climate change predicts: The weather will get weird; some areas will get more precipitation than ever; others will become drier than ever.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>If climate change causes everything, it causes nothing.<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Global weirding is the (central planning, one-world-government) emperor\u2019s new clothes. 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