APRIL IN JANUARY: East, Midwest: Wealth of Warmth, Then Arctic Outbreaks

As forecast, warmth will expand and peak into this weekend in the East. Waves of cold air with the potential of major arctic outbreaks may follow beginning during the third week of January and continuing beyond.

Warmth

After a storm bringing mostly rain swings through the Northeast Friday/Friday night, temperatures will surge to likely their warmest levels of the month.

Record-challenging highs are forecast with temperatures reaching the 60s over a broad area [...]

Is It The Weather, Stupid? David Rosenberg On What “April In January” Means For Seasonal Adjustments

by ZH

Remember last year when the tiniest snowfall was reason for everyone and their grandmother to miss every possible estimate, always blaming it on the weather? Or rainfall in the spring? Or warm weather during the summer? Oddly enough one never hears about the opposite: the beneficial, and one-time, impact to trendline due to countertrend weather, such as the fact that we just had April weather in January. Granted, nobody in [...]