Europe Hammered by Winter, Is North America Next?

[Yo_Mama]

3. The AO (Arctic Oscillation) isn't new

It is closely related to the NAO, which in one phase creates conditions for bad hurricanes in the Atlantic in the summer following, so the price for our winter may be a more stormy summer, depending on how this develops over the next few months.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_oscillation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_oscillation

When I was a kid my folks told me about all these weather patterns, and they also gave dates as to when they were supposed to shift again. 40 years later, what they predicted did indeed happen in northern Europe, the US Atlantic coast, and the US Pacific coast, so I assume that nothing much has changed about this part of the weather cycle.