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2009-2010 Cold Season Special Report
- Provides documentation, data analysis, and a preliminary understanding of large-scale climate patterns and their effects on regional weather events
- States the 2009/2010 Cold Season for North America was historically active and powerful
- Finds that extreme fluctuations in temperature and precipitation in the mid-latitudes during this period can be attributed to a wide variety of rapidly progressing weather systems
- Finds the persistent systems were influenced by larger scale patterns
- Finds the strong warm phase of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) helped to alleviate moderate to exceptional drought across the contiguous United States
- Finds the record-setting negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation produced record cold temperatures in the Deep South
- Holds that the effects of large-scale climate patterns are often influential on regional weather events and when they are extreme and historic in nature, their local effects are profound and far reaching
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