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A Possible Consequence of our Present Weather

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I HAVE observed on several occasions that abnormally cold weather in November has been followed by an unusually mild mid-winter and January. These may possibly have been mere accidental coincidences, or they may be connected by a link of causation thus. Our climate, and more especially our winter climate, is largely influenced by the Gulf Stream, and whatever augments this raises our winter temperature, and vice versà.

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WILLIAMS, W. A Possible Consequence of our Present Weather. Nature 21, 130–131 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/021130a0

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