The BBC had an interview with a weather presenter from a Chicago radio station this morning, and he was saying that the cold weather there is forecast to disappear as quickly as it came, with temps back to a balmy (for Chicago) 9C by the New Year. But the charts suggest that the cold and especially the snow will hang on longer in New England.
FWIW, I acquired a reputation for forecasting snow in the Kentish village where we lived in the 80s, based on snow arriving three weeks after New York had a big fall. Then in the 90s, that forecast method just stopped working, and I quietly tried to forget about it. There's little sign of it being successful this year either so presumably I struck lucky for those few years.
Originally Posted by: DEW