Johannes Vermeer The Concert painting

Johannes Vermeer The Concert painting
Gustave Courbet The Origin of the World painting

Commuters walk down the middle of a street through blowing snow in Brooklyn, New York, in January of 1996. The nation's top climate and weather experts are predicting that the string of relatively mild winters in recent years may be coming to an end.
Brace yourself for a real winter.The nation’s top climate and weather experts are predicting that the string of relatively mild winters in recent years may be coming to an end now that the quirky weather influences of La Nina and El Nino have faded.“We’ve probably forgotten over the last three years what a normal winter is like,” says D. James Baker, administrator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “With La Nina and El Nino out of the way, normal winter weather has a chance to return to the United States this year