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...same time--despite a huge storm that set off tornadoes in Florida and dumped snow in the Ohio valley last week, killing at least 22 people--large parts of the eastern and north-central U.S. continued to bask in the warmest winter in years, one that brought cherry blossoms to Washington in the first week of January. That might sound like the opposite of a disaster, but every weather anomaly has its dark side. In a normal year, for example, the winter storm that hit New England and southern Canada in January might have dumped a thick blanket of snow...
Scientists predicted, for example, that in western North America the south should be colder and wetter than last winter, while the north would be warmer and drier. That's just what happened: at one point this winter, it was snowing in Guadalajara, Mexico, while thermometers in Saskatchewan registered in the 50s. That doesn't mean the scientists are always right, of course. They can make broad-brush predictions of El Nino's effects without being able to forecast exactly what will happen in any given place. Some of the early prediction scenarios--no snow for the Olympic Winter Games...
...Cole of the University of Colorado used tree rings from hundreds of sites to see how El Nino affected North America in the past. Before 1920, they found, El Nino appears to have affected a much larger region of the U.S. than it does today, channeling winter rain and snow all the way up into the Great Lakes and Great Plains. Afterward, however, its sphere of influence retreated to northern Mexico and the American Southwest. Why the shift? It may be, Cole suggests, that El Nino is overlaid on a different climate cycle that is even more important...
This is a summer village mainly, and it is unusual to see lights in the houses after the fall has come and gone. But on this winter weekend, perhaps because of the new snow, people have come back, and the windows of the houses beam. I am accustomed to walking the length of the street after dinner in near total darkness, so it makes for a happy surprise, this sudden brightening. In the dead black cold of night, the windows seem to shiver with gold and amber--strong and beautiful assertions of the light...
...Zhivago (1965). Julie Christie, and lots and lots of snow. True Romance (1993). A CP favorite; check out Gary Oldman as the pimp. Witness (1985). Kelly McGillis. The bathing scene. Gun Crazy (1950). Lovers on the lam; a cult classic. Brief Encounter (1945). Strangers on a train platform. A very British romance. Summertime (1955). David Lean. Katharine Hepburn. Venice. Casablanca (1942). Speaks for itself. Breathless (1959). The Godard original, please. Almost makes you want to be French. Betty Blue (1986). French too; a very very sexy movie. An Affair to Remember (1957). Okay, ladies, it's your day. But come...