Halloween is a common target for scary stories about how evil people will sneak marijuana-laced candy into Halloween bags. “And it’s actually kind of embarrassing because the DEA is really just late, late to the party.”įrancis further stated to Rolling Stone that the motive for selling drugs is profit, and that because children don’t typically have incomes, the idea of sneaking any drug into Halloween candy is “utterly divorced from reality.” “We saw it with MDMA, we see it in club drugs,” Francis told Rolling Stone. Other illicit drugs have been packed in bright colors to make them appear less harmful. Rolling Stone talked with Mariah Francis, a resource associate with the National Harm Reduction Coalition, who said that just because the pills are brightly colored does not mean they are targeted at children. The DEA says, “Fentanyl is involved in more than 80% of overdose deaths in the city.” And, make no mistake, the DEA says it captured thousands of the colored pills in New York City recently. The DEA has not made the connection between fentanyl and Halloween candy. Democrats responded by proposing more than $250 million in new funding to fight rainbow fentanyl with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer saying, “Halloween is coming up … this is very worrisome and really dangerous.” Republicans jumped on the warning as evidence that the Biden administration is soft on crime and border enforcement. “Drought conditions could become worse in some regions of the West with the winter forecast to begin on a dry note,” AccuWeather said. The AccuWeather long-term forecast does not predict any relief. Nearly three-quarters of the western part of the country is still in a drought and close to a fifth of western states are in an extreme drought right now. NBC News called it “a disturbing new trend.” The lingering western drought I would be interested to know if cities and states pay attention to these kinds of forecasts when they buy and store road salt and other seasonal supplies.īy the way, New York City schools recently announced that there will be “no snow days” this school year because the system learned to use virtual teaching during the pandemic. That happened last December when tornadoes killed 80 people in Kentucky. AccuWeather experts say that will cause some frequent heavy rain and storms across the Gulf coast and into the Tennessee valley into the winter. The volcano spewed an unprecedented amount of debris high into Earth’s atmosphere which, as Pastelok will explain, could still be having an effect on the weather on a global scale.Īs you no doubt heard during the coverage of Hurricane Ian, the Gulf of Mexico is really warm. One of the more unusual factors that could influence the overall weather patterns this winter can be traced back to a cataclysmic volcano eruption that took place in the early weeks of 2022. The weather setup will be one of the most complicated and dynamic in recent memory due to all of the weather factors in play over the upcoming months, Pastelok said. “These third-year La Niñas are very tricky,” Pastelok said, with no two La Niña winters being exactly the same. Despite what will be the third La Niña winter in a row, this winter will not necessarily be a carbon copy of the past two. The regular climate phenomenon occurs when the water near the equator in the eastern Pacific Ocean is cooler than average, which in turn influences the jet stream and the overall weather patterns in North America. The prediction is that the interior part of the country will see a couple of big snow events after the new year compared to the last four winters. But the team expects 2022 to end with a mild start to winter. The team is watching for a February polar vortex that would bring extreme cold as far as Texas. But AccuWeather meteorologists said this winter “will shape up much differently than last winter in part due to a volcano that erupted on the other side of the globe.” OK, they have my attention.ĪccuWeather senior meteorologist Paul Pastelok says his team is predicting a “triple dip La Niña,” as it is the third winter in a row that La Niña will shape the weather patterns across the U.S. I have to be straightforward here, I do not have a ton of faith in these extreme long-range forecasts. The winter forecast: mild start, rough February 2023 It would be interesting to ask people running for midterm elections if they think Social Security benefits should be taxed. It is possible that some retirees will see their income taxes rise if the COLA increase pushes them over income thresholds. The average benefit paid to retired workers would rise by about $150 per month, and that extra cash would help repair the damage done by inflation this year, especially if inflation continues to cool as it has in the last two months.
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