I don’t think you understand how hard and expensive it’s going to be to get water in the Great Plains with less Rocky Mountains snowmelt, less rain, and emptied aquifers. The Great American Desert, they called it once, and they will again.
Of course it’s been going on for decades! That’s what we’ve been telling you! Good grief!
I can’t speak for the Dakotas, but rainfall has gone down in the southern Plains.
I’m not complaining, per se, but this is unusual weather and I do miss the snow.
And I’m posting from a nuclear powered computer, thank you very much.
We had an incrediably snow-free winter decades ago. A guy I knew had just gone all-in, spending their last cent on a snow blade for his pickup truck. He was going to make big $$ plowing.
The mild winter led to his truck being repossessed and his wife leaving him. If he had a dog it’d probably have died.
Yep, continuing to confuse weather and climate doesn’t do anyone any favors.
Weather is something you can pretty much do bupkis about, anyway. When it’s wrong, you’re fucked. You can laugh or you can cry. Might as well laugh and make the most of what you get. Even if we have the self control to limit our effect on the climate, we’ll still be weather’s bitch.
ETA: Oh, and I’m perfectly fine with this weather. Winter just started. Give it a minute.
I live in Boston. We survived last winter, when we got 110" of snow and set a new snowfall record. 64" of that was in February. It might not have been so bad except because we had a storm every week for 6 weeks and the temps never rose none of the snow melted. In the urban area we have very very small lots. We literally had no where to put the snow we were trying to shovel and plow off the sidewalks and roads. On-street parking was banned in my neighborhood for 3 weeks because each street was down to one lane. Some streets weren’t even wide enough for a fire truck to drive down them.
We know what a cold winter is like.
But I agree with the OP - the current weather is creepy and weird and I don’t like it.
I’ll take creepy and weird over last year. I don’t miss having no place to dump the plowed snow. I don’t miss trying to drive on a sheet of ice. I don’t miss the exorbitant heating bills. And I don’t miss not seeing some of the spring blooms.
I’ll take a brown Christmas over a white one, any year.
So where did you park then?
Forecast for my neck of the woods in New Jersey is 63 degrees today, 73 degrees on Christmas Eve, and 66 degrees on Christmas day. I am absolutely loving this weather, especially after last year’s nightmare Winter.
Warmest DECEMBER New Jersey day (or warmest for that date?) I think you mean.
We don’t own a car. Neighbors had to pay to put their cars in a commercial garage. We had to cancel a couple visits from our housecleaners because they had no where to park. Our cat sitter had to park 8 blocks away and walk.
ETA: most neighbors have driveways that fit 2 cars, so it was “extra” cars that had to go in commercial garages. Those who live in three-deckers had to decide whose cars were the “extra” cars. Some couldn’t get their cars out of their driveways though because the street was too narrow to back out of the driveway.
KEEP doing it? That train left the station long ago. Somehow the warm weather on the east coast THIS YEAR is evidence of man-made global warming/climate change, notwithstanding the fact that meteorologists largely explain it’s due to El Nino. But when winter started in October last year and dragged on with abnormally low temps for weeks on end, that was also due to MMGWCC. This is almost certainly weather, not climate change. And climates change, always have and always will.
FWIW, I’ll take this weather all winter long and be glad to leave my snowblower in the shed.
Cite, please? Show us a climate scientist who says this warm spell is evidence of global climate change.
(In fact, your own post argues against that point, by citing meteorologists who correctly discount that link!)
I was sarcastically referring to the numerous comments upstream from the true believers, including the OP, not from scientists.
Don’t forget to tell these guys, I’m sure they’ll be interested to know that.
Climate change cannot be singled out as responsible for the unusually warm weather in much of the country this Nov.-Dec., any more than it was responsible for the “polar vortex” and subzero temps we had in the past two winters.
Long-term patterns, OK - short-term anomalies, nope.
We increasingly have a pattern of anomalies.
Be careful of confirmation bias, as well as imaging trends that aren’t there. Data doesn’t show abnormal numbers of droughts, tornadoes or hurricanes, even though media and hype might lead one to think otherwise.
Cite.
Again,
Climate change is happening. We need to learn to adapt to the new realities. Warmer weather will have its pros and cons. Personally I like the pros myself.
A few days ago, it got to the point where there was the slightest, just the slightest, tinge of coolness at night. That lasted a couple of nights, and now it’s toasty around the clock again. That probably does it for Bangkok’s "cool " season for this year. Used to be that would last for a month or so, but in recent years it’s been measured in days.