Back in October 2011, Scientific America published an article saying the winter 2012 will be extremely cold."Brutal Winter Predicted for U.S.", says the title. Quoting with beautiful "subjective" figure like below:



The quoted expert from accuweather.com even joked a bit, “People in Chicago are going to want to move after this winter.”

While I was hoping their forecasts would bring a wild skiing season in the Northeast, an usually warm winter shattered my plan. So what went wrong?

I actually don't know what the climate guys based their forecasts on. But if too much subjective things are involved, they would not be called scientists anymore.