Word: warms
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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They'll all try to shake off the rust of a two-week layoff with some non-conference warm-ups. Here's a look at how the Crimson's winter warriors will spend intersession...
...What's strange is that the apocalyptic cold we enjoy at the moment (the wind chill is 40 below zero outside as I write this), has fallen like a guillotine after an early winter that seemed unnaturally and irreversibly warm. What's going on? During the balmy holidays a few weeks ago, I fell into a vague sense of elegy about old-time winters, thinking they would never come again. I stored my goosedown parka in the closet with my summer clothes. I am practically sleeping in the parka...
...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 and cool periods for decades at a stretch. During the cool phase, waters around the Asian edge of the ocean become abnormally warm and the waters off the western U.S. cool off, while the conditions are reversed during the warm phase. According to this theory, we've been in a warm phase...
...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. So we can keep talking about the weather all we want...
...cream or a donut at the Dunkin' Donuts/Baskin Robbins. Though Dunkin' Donuts is a chain establishment, this store has been a Square mainstay since 1971 and has been owned by the same family for the last 14 years. Countless Cambridge students have been greeted by the Latzanakises' warm smiles as they bought their daily cup of coffee. But more than the actual businesses themselves, the gradual decline of the Square's quirkiness is the biggest loss. Even if the red brick facades stay the same, the replacement of two Square landmarks by insipid chain stores underscores the depressing shift towards...