The Northeast warms ahead of rest of USA: 'Our winters now are not like our winters before'

https://news.yahoo.com/northeast-warming-faster-rest-us-120016157.html

Kyle Bagenstose, USA TODAY Network
,https://www.usatoday.com/news/•December 26, 2019

For one scientist, climate change in the Northeast announces itself in the abnormal appearances of warm-water fish – an abundance of mahi-mahi and unprecedented sightings in January of Gulf Stream flounder and juvenile black sea bass in shallow waters off New England.

“Nobody had ever seen that before,” said Glen Gawarkiewicz, an oceanographer from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.

For another scientist, the phenomenon materializes in ocean temperatures, which have been rising for more than a generation, influencing coastal weather and pushing snowfall farther inland.

“Our winters now are not like our winters before,” said Lenny Giuliano, the state meteorologist in Rhode Island.

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