The January Thaw
| Autor: | Ron Logan |
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| Rok vydání: | 1982 |
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| Zdroj: | Weatherwise. 35:263-267 |
| ISSN: | 1940-1310 0043-1672 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00431672.1982.9933198 |
| Popis: | In Much of The U.S., and in New England in Particular, the “January Thaw” holds an honored position in the local weatherlore. Whether real or imagined it is taken for granted and seriously questioned by neither the general public nor science. New Englanders anxiously await, and thoroughly enjoy, this annual respite from winter, while the scientific community occasionally refers to the “Thaw” in passing, but appears neither surprised by its supposed existence nor moved by scientific curiosity to ask, why? Given the steady, relentless increase of the day's length in spring and decrease in fall, there is no reason to expect a sudden mid-winter warming. And given the apparent randomness of daily weather systems with respect to our daily calendar, there is no reason to expect this warming to visit the same days year after year. A consistent pattern of reoccurring warm spells at the same time each year would be, or at least should be, of scientific interest. Arriving at a definition for the January Tha... |
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