Word: coldness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...those bundled-up northeasterners suffering from frostbitten noses: Get used to it, there could be decades more of winters just like this. NASA scientists believe the recent spate of unusual North American weather - from last year's droughts and hurricanes up through the current manic hot-and-cold spells in the northeast U.S. - will be with us for the next 20 to 30 years, due to a condition known as Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). Some researchers believe that two years ago we began entering the cool portion of a cycle in which the Pacific Ocean waters alternate between warm...
...theorists say the phenomenon explains the "la ni?as" of the past two winters, which begin when cold Pacific waters wash up on the shores of Central America. For the current year, meteorological predictions fall in line with this theory, as February forecasts call for an unusually cold and wet stretch for the northern states of the U.S., and warm, dry weather down south. But New Yorkers shouldn't buy that new down comforter just yet. The entire PDO theory is still fairly new (scientists first proposed it three years ago), and not even its supporters are fully convinced...
During the two-hour car trip to Gilford, the conversation that passed between Snider and Daniel Choi, also a third-year Law School student, turned to why John McCain is the only presidential candidate for whom it is worth travelling to New Hampshire on a cold morning...
...masked man carried a sign saying "This is not shrinkage," in an allusion to the infamous Seinfeld episode concerning the effect of cold weather on male genitalia...
Dudley coop has irrational affection for its traditions," Aron R. Fischer '00 said. "Also because the primal scream is always so bloody cold, causing everybody to run really fast, making it difficult to get a very good view of peoples' bodies. In Lamont, you get a better look...