One of the winter snowstorm in the Washington, DC area this winter. Photo by woodleywonderworks, Flickr.

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s perennial novel, “The Great Gatsby,” socialite Tom Buchannan muses about fickle weather in between sips of gin on hot summer afternoon: “I read somewhere that the sun is getting hotter every year…It seems that pretty soon the earth is going to fall into the sun — or wait a minute — it’s just the opposite. The sun’s getting colder every year.” Read more