So, interesting you mention that! Her initial title for the manuscript was "The Hard Winter," but her editor thought it was too scary of a title for a children's book, so she changed it to "The Long Winter."
Thanks, Bob! Unfortunately, updating the normals every 10 years is not doing a great job keeping up with the speed of temperature changes in most of the country. By the end of a 10-year cycle of updates, many locations slant heavily toward being warmer than normal most of the time.
I feel like "The Starvation Winter" would be a hard sell as a title for a children's novel...🤣
So, interesting you mention that! Her initial title for the manuscript was "The Hard Winter," but her editor thought it was too scary of a title for a children's book, so she changed it to "The Long Winter."
I had a hunch!
There is a great tool from the High Plains Regional Climate Center, to "roll-your-own" climate data periods. See https://hprcc.unl.edu/ncei-cct/
Thanks for sharing the link!
This was very enlightening, I had no idea of the 30-year normal cycle. Thanks as always Barb.
Thanks, Bob! Unfortunately, updating the normals every 10 years is not doing a great job keeping up with the speed of temperature changes in most of the country. By the end of a 10-year cycle of updates, many locations slant heavily toward being warmer than normal most of the time.