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...about wildlife and water. From Denver to Boise, Idaho, herds of antelope, deer and elk are wandering out of the deep back-country snow dazed and starving. The snowfall, three or four times as great as normal, makes Rockies residents look toward the spring thaw with apprehension. Says California Meteorologist Jerome Namais: "This is potentially a very dangerous situation." All over the region, the snow facts seem almost like Paul Bunyan tall tales. Utah and Idaho last endured such snowy winters in the 1880s. In Alta, Utah, more than 20 ft. fell during December alone, exceeding the previous record...
...South suffered the most devastating cold in 20 years, and in the Great Plains and Midwest, weather historians saw parallels with dreadful pioneer winters. "This is decidedly the coldest December in Iowa," said State Climatologist Paul Waite. "It looks like it will beat 1876." Said National Weather Service Meteorologist Kenneth Bergman: "When the records are all in, this may be the worst December in 100 years for the whole...
...Tampa, a few minutes away from fields of ruined fruit, a Government forecaster sounded a bit defensive. "It was practically impossible to forecast," said NWS Meteorologist David Rittenberry. The freeze, he added, "just came rolling right in." According to weather experts, high-altitude wind patterns shifted so that cold Arctic air, instead of warming gradually as it drifted east over the U.S., rushed due south...
...Meteorologists still do not understand why El Niño arrives in cycles, causing extreme heatings of ocean temperatures every four or five years. The El Niño of 1972, though less severe than the present one, nevertheless crippled the South American fishing industry. Although few of these episodes last longer than a year, two-year El Niños were recorded in 1877-79 and in 1940-42. Meteorologist Oswaldo Garcia notes that there are some disturbing similarities between the present El Niño and the 1877 episode, which may have contributed to flooding in California...
...movement sharply reduces the fish catch, especially anchovies, which are ground up and sold as meal for livestock and poultry. The present El Niño, which first appeared last June and has raised ocean surface temperatures by as much as 11° F, is no ordinary one. Says Meteorologist Jerome Namias of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla: "This is probably the strongest El Niño we've ever seen...