"I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know."

David Fuller's view It's obvious that Bing Crosby wasn't flying home for the holidays. Between the Christmas terrorist (explosives in his underwear - what was the man thinking?) and the terrible weather, this season's travel was a nightmare, not a dream.

Since early October, the Newsletter has been warning that the East would have a very cold early winter. By early November it was obvious that the normal El Niño warming in the central portions of Canada and the US would not appear. In the past, when volcanic weather and a warm Atlantic combined with a weak-to-moderate El Niño, we have had miserable cold and snowy weather east of the Rockies. Unfortunately, history has repeated itself and we will continue to shiver through early January and again later this winter.

Basically, the factors that cooled this summer and the month of December are still in place.