Just ran across this. Sigh. 
Independent: “Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past.”
When will we ever learn? :mad:
ETA: Oops, I just realized that was dated back in 2000–sorry. Nonetheless, it surely must still hold true, right? And I shudder to think how far things must have gone since then. Gosh.
The call it climate change now. That way it can account for all types of weather. In a decade or two from now killer treants will be the new environmental cause.
Snow is at least 72 hours in the past in the particular part of the UK I live in, and significantly less for much of the rest of it. For rather dull reasons involving ocean currents, we may well get colder as the earth warms up.
Ah yes, When will we ever learn that winter follows summer?
“Heavy snow will return occasionally, says Dr Viner, but when it does we will be unprepared. “We’re really going to get caught out. Snow will probably cause chaos in 20 years time,” he said.”
– David Viner further on in that Independent article.
Killer treants? :eek:
“Run, lads, it’s the copse!”
Made me laugh.
I wouldn’t worry, their bark is worse than their bite.
When I was in Germany for a year–many years ago–they told me it didn’t snow much anymore. At the moment, much of the country has more snow than it knows what to do with.
As evidenced by the fact that Moscow is approximately the same lattitude as London. It’s only the ocean currents that prevent snows like this year from being the norm.
Um, because a load of snow fell all at once. That’s like saying (another long-term prediction) that the summers will be hotter and drier, but the occasional rainfall will be torrent - 100 l/ m2 in 24 hours is too much, and will flood roads and cellars, even in a country prepared for rainfall.
But measuring the snowfall/ height of snow in the ski areas (which is the important aspect of snow) over the whole winter, yes, snowy winters and enough snow to ski has been steadily declining in the past. There are films from the 50s and 60s where some areas have 3 m of snow, that today hardly have any snow several winters in a row.
They’ll leaf us alone if we stick together.
Didn’t the UK get hammered by snow storms last year too? - I have a book from the library, “Earth: Then and Now” which shows contrasting images of the same locales separated by anywhere from 100+ years to a few months, and highlighting the changes brought on by development, reclaimation, battle, natural disaster, and so on.
One satellite image set is of the British Isles, the first an image of the UK on a cloudless day, and the second after the British Isles had been covered almost completely by a major snowstorm in January 2010 (This one, in fact).
OK, maybe I should say last winter since it’s still 2010, but hey, you Brits better check to make sure the Gulf Stream is still working correctly (It never seems to work all that well here in NY)
We should probably leaf them al…
:mad:
I predict that in the future, there will be record weather.
I just hope they’ve twigged to that.
With terrible, debilitating stretches of statistically uneventful weather sandwiched in between!
I still wouldn’t risk it. C’mon, fellas, let’s make like a tree and get outta here.
Also, years that farmers will declare are “the worst ever”. Don’t forget floods and tornadoes in the American Midwest!
And the Democratic party will continue their uninterrupted streak of nominating the “most liberal candidate ever” for President. Somehow, despite electing around half of these, America will somehow have resisted descending into Marxism.