Senior meteorologist on extended USA cold blast to last past Groundhog day: 'WOW F..ing WOW'

What’s intriguing is that South America had a similar cold air deliver pattern exactly 6 months ago during their Winter. Tropical areas that grow coffee had the coldest temperatures since 1994 in July, with areas of Southern Brazil and Argentina seeing record cold and record snows in several outbreaks into August.
At the same time, our Arctic was haivng one of the coldest Summers, with big gains in ice vs the prior year.
The real intriguing part is that 6 months later, the weather patterns have flipped hemispheres. The Antarctic has had a big blob of cold anomolies moving around(just like the Arctic did in its previous Summer) but staying put for 2 months.
In North America, we are seeing extreme cold from the highest latitudes being delivered very far south(just like in South America during it’s previous Winter)
Strange coincidence? Maybe. This wasn’t just similar weather but the same most extreme in 20 years weather.that flipped hemispheres.
What exerts the same force that flips from the Northern Hemisphere to the Southern Hemisphere,. gradually every 6 months? Of course there is almost no sun close to the poles in Winter and almost constant daylight in the Summer.
It could have nothing to do with the sun and this is just what both hemispheres look like in Winter and Summer when we are in a natural cooling mode.
In other words, in the Summer, it’s stays colder than nomal at very high latitudes and in the Winter, a pattern for delivery of extreme cold south dominates.
That extremely cold Winter of 1976/77 was exactly when the PDO was crossing from negative to positive………and stayed positive thru the 1990’s.

A passenger standing near Professor Turney overheard the voyage leader, Greg Mortimer, telling him over the radio to bring passengers back to the ship so it can leave.
But minutes later, Turney drove six more passengers into the field.
The overloaded vehicle had no space to collect returning passengers.

Hoo Boy! Dum DeeDum Dum . . . (The dragnet is closing in.)

vukcevic says:
January 21, 2014 at 1:26 pm
At suggestion of a moderate ‘lukewarmer’ climate scientist, I have assembled enough data to show that the Northern Hemisphere climate is directly responding (with somewhat surprising double bite) to the solar activity. If its projection comes to reality then January 2024 will be more like January 1814 rather than the one of 1914.
vudcevic,
It’s hard to describe how awesome I think your graphs and charts loaded with all sorts of data are. This is currently feeding an intriguing observation that seems to be connected to your comment above.
As an operational meteorologist and also commodities trader, I specialize in pattern recognition and forecast for mainly North America and South American weather. I have noted strange patterns in global temperature anomalies over the past year that seem to fall outside anything I have seen in my 32 years of doing this..
It’s not just 20 year extremes in cold(which in itself appears odd, just because we were in a warming mode in the 1980’s/90’s) but the way the weather pattern in North America and South America flipped in 6 months to be the same as the other one was 6 months prior.
An impressive element to this is how both very high latitudes remained unusually and persistently cold during the Summer at both places. My area of expertise is recognizing atmospheric patterns and how they effect weather but I need some assistance(maybe we all do) in determining the underlying cause for this.
I am wide open for explanations that involve the sun, an interaction with our planets changing magnetic field and the oceans…..or something else that makes sense.
Dr. John Haldren’s explanation makes no sense to because both the Arctic and Antarctic had extremely cold Summers this past year. His explanation assumes that those regions getting warmer is what is causing this.
My observation/puzzlement is specific to only the past year of the extremely cold anomalies.

Silver Ralph says:
January 21, 2014 at 2:47 pm
Vuk – I don’t know if you are right or wrong, but at least you now have more explanations on your wiggly lines, and we can sort of follow your reasoning.
Thanks. Only thing I am very concerned about is that the data I use is the best I can access, but I do admit the labelling often could be better. Just for fun of it, I did occasionally try to offer interpretation suggestion a physical mechanism, but got shot down far too often (actually every single time).
p.s. Google says::Ralph Silver – the man with the perpetual smile.

jorgekafkazar says: “My mother lived through that period. She (a nurse) recalled that people who insisted on staying active and going to work had the highest mortality.”
old44 says: “Stands to reason, if you go to work you are in contact with many people thus increasing your chance of contracting the Flu.”
They were already sick when they went to work, old.