By Hani Barghouthi
Michigan and the Great Lakes region (click here) is expected to have a warmer but wetter than average winter, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Southeast Michigan is predicted to have an almost 50% chance of above-normal temperatures in some areas, according to NOAA's 2021 Winter Outlook report, but predictions in a small part of the Upper Peninsula find "equal chances for below-, near- or above-average temperatures."
The report shows more certainty for Michigan than the 2020 edition, when the entire state's winter weather patterns were a "toss-up," according to Mike Halpert, deputy director of the NOAA's Climate Prediction Center....
I have been observing the climate of Michigan since 2012 and the winter of 12-13 when the temperatures went to subzero as if on an icefield in winter. That was the year the polar vortex displaced for the first time to lower latitudes due to the climate crisis. Very few days were greeted wtihout snow and the temperatures on northwest Michigan dropped to -60 F at it's worse.
The northern peninsula of Michigan will probably remain the same for some time yet because it is above 45 degree north latitude, but, it won't last forever if the people of the USA can't address the abusive petroleum industry and end their dependence on fossil fuels.
The USA has a challenge before it. Can it return to moral content in it's society reflected by politics that addresses the human condition more than it addresses Wall Street. I don't know if anyone else noticed, but, Wall Street abandoned the people and rocketed their profits during the global pandemic by playing up cryptocurrency.
It is time the USA return to moral content and strong demands in their govenrment to change the path to benevolence from self-destruction of democracy.
