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Submitted by mike.halpert on

Breaking individual records (either warmer or colder than normal) says nothing about long-term climate change or climate predictions in general.  It's important not to confuse decadal and longer climate time scales with sub-seasonal to seasonal climate variability.  The reality is that there will likely still be record breaking cold below normal temperatures from time to time, but there will be far more record breaking temperatures on the warm side of the ledger.