Projected weather patterns for the coming seasons appear to reflect the intensifying but complex influence of this Pacific Ocean phenomenon. But don’t bet the farm on it!
by HENRY HENGEVELD
It’s been unusually warm across the Great Lakes basin during the first eight months of 2010 – the ninth warmest winter, the warmest spring and the fourth warmest summer on record. Now, according to the prognoses recently issued by both American and Canadian weather services, the Ontario climate pendulum is about to swing back to below normal temperatures.