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Thing is this is winter time. this is cyclical, passed by mosquitos. to see it occur during the wintertime throws a red flag and the fact it's affecting bald eagles is not commonly seep. it affects hundreds of species of birds, most birds recover from it, birds are overcome by crows and you see 300, 400 birds, a mass death, at a time. >> what do you make of that red flag then? >> my concern is this, we keep going back to the cliche about climate change and global warming but the fact of the matter is it's changing cycles in everything in wildlife, migration patterns, mosquitos are one of the d...

Coast-to-coast, impacting tens of millions of people. what's the science behind all of the extreme weather? >> in terms of the storms we've seen in october, november, december, as i often tell peo e people, you know, the atmosphere doesn't have an on-off switch that knows when winter begins. >> dr. marshall shepherd is a president of the meteorological society. he said there's one big reason for the wild weather, the jet team. >> when we have the el nino-neutral conditions, the jet stream patterns, we get the strong dips in the jet stream patterns, and in the dips, cold air, and in the hills, ...

The most. >> got plenty of salt. the back roads are starting to stick a little bit. it looks like it's coming down pretty good right now. >> i'm going to stay in. >> because? >> stay out of the way. >> reporter: the winter storms have impacted tens of millions of people. what's the science behind all the extreme weather? >> in terms of the storms that we've seen in october, november, and december as i often tell people, you know, the atmosphere doesn't have an on/off switch that knows when winter actually begins. >> reporter: dr. marshall shepherd is the president of the meteorological society...

>> reporter: he's the president of the meet logical society. he says there's one reason for the wild weather, the jet stream. >> the jet stream patterns, we get strong dips in the jet stream patterns. in the dips, there could be cold air. in the hills, warm air. so, generally, the jet stream pattern is the governing forcing function of our weather in the wintertime. >> reporter: case and point, denver, colorado. in ten days they went from negative temperatures to a balmy 70 degrees. a time of year when it should be hovering around 40. we are talking about 30 degrees above normal. in the big "d...

One person died when dozens of vehicles rear-ended each other. >> you hate to see something like that. this storm is going to affect up to 50 million americans, folks working at the white house, snow already starting to fall there. and, again, as i said, it's already turning into a very wet snow, making the roads very, very slick. possibly the worst time in the morning. >> absolutely right. rush hour in washington is bad enough. and it looks like it will be a bad one today, though the federal government is closed. thank you so much for that. let's get to jennifer grey tracking where this storm...