We just had an unusually low sunspot minimum, and as of now the sun has barely woken up. This was predicted by a team of Russian scientists, who specialize in studying the sunspot cycles.
If this trend continues, the low sunspot activity helps to set up a blocking high pressure near Greenland. This Greenland block will send arctic air masses toward the eastern US, as has happened in December 2010.
The low sunspot activity encourages cosmic rays to crash through our atmosphere and this added radiation produces water drop nuclei, which aid in cloud formation. Extra clouds cool the high latitudes, resulting in a Greenland block, with cold and snowy conditions on the east coast.
Last winters' snowmaggedon could be the start of a trend around here.
Locally, January 7th is a day to watch. The middle of January looks quite cold. So what else is new?
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