# Is there now highly unseasonal weather where you live? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 15, 2021, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-now-highly-unseasonal-weather-where-you-live/932994 "2021-02-15T23:05:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-now-highly-unseasonal-weather-where-you-live/932994/101 "2021-02-19T01:41:53Z")
Yes. Here in the Vancouver area, we’ve had a lot less below freezing days and less snow. As a matter of fact, the local news had a bit about it a couple of weeks ago. Apparently, between 1950 - 1980, we averaged 60cm of snow per year. It’s been dropping ever since and is now at about 34cm, per year. ---
**Author:** ![mistymage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mistymage/32/459_2.png) [@mistymage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mistymage)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-now-highly-unseasonal-weather-where-you-live/932994/102 "2021-02-19T04:07:10Z")
Thank you for posting that link! I get about the same amount of heat from my antique oil lamps, too. The point being it’s a safer way to add heat vs running a grill in the house. Radiant heat vs running your natural gas/propane stove empty. Or sitting in a car to get warm. And cheaper than buying a heater (electric doesn’t work w/o electricity, kerosene has asphyxiation problems). I like that one of the emphasis in most videos is to use non-combustible items whether as the focal point of the radiant heat (the flower pots made from clay/terracotta) and as the side raising items (bricks, trivets etc) and underneath the candle. I’ve placed tea candles on cup saucers (when I drink tea or coffee I use much larger cups 😃 ) that I haven’t used since I bought them. I actually placed a tea candle in a metal holder on top of my pretty smelling Giant candle … so I had light, didn’t melt the Giant candle and, though not melted, the heat generated intensified the scent from the Giant candle. I seldom light that candle anyway but it has the best scent that wafts around just sitting on the table. I suppose someday I’ll have to have Mistermage “peel” a layer down on all sides so the scent can “escape” again. 6 months and it still is giving a nice “hint” now and then. It’s my favorite color (purple) and my favorite scent (Lavender). I bought 2 for X-Mas for the 2 kids in their house. They like them … no lighting because 5 cats 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-now-highly-unseasonal-weather-where-you-live/932994/103 "2021-02-19T14:45:03Z")
Ar 12:30 central there is a LinkedIn news live event with Daniel Yergin (energy history author) who will discuss the power outage events , could be pretty good, I suspect he will do a good job at looking at a wide range of factors. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-now-highly-unseasonal-weather-where-you-live/932994/104 "2021-02-19T15:32:04Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > DC area. No, pretty normal here. Yeah. We seem to be on the “alternating year snow” plan lately. Last year was a “no snow” year, and this year has been a moderate snow year, which is normal. The overall pattern is we’ll get hammered about once a decade, and we’re due. Probably next year. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-now-highly-unseasonal-weather-where-you-live/932994.md?page=5)