If I get my bicycle ready for the road, it will become cold.
Hmm. I may just do that.
It’s pretty much bottled up close to the pole by an unusually powerful and flat jet stream. Most of the Canadian Arctic, as well as Scandinavia and Siberia are all well above average temperature. Check the Temperature maps here: Short-Term Climate Outlooks and look at the bottom of the three maps on each page for the positive/negative anomalies. The deep red colours are quite shocking.
By contrast, mid latitudes (below about 40ºN) seem to have largely negative anomalies, and the southern hemisphere is also mostly below average.
Records have been absolutely smashed across Europe, though, with temperatures up to 10C (18F) above average for weeks on end.
I hate it. Winters in southern England are never that cold, but the odd frost or snow shower would be nice, not 14C and roaring sou’westerlies 
Why don’tcha just go out and wash your cars? With you two jinxers, it otta bring on a hurricane! 
It’s* not *Global Warming. GW is a very slow process. It’d be GW if your Grandkids are wondering why the winters are consistently milder for them than they were for you.
In Detroit not only have we not had snow, but we could play golf almost everyweekend this year. This is extremely rare.It is about 50 today .
No, the real reason is that I finally had my driveway paved this last summer so I could use my snowblower. 
My technique last year when we had a temporary crushed stone driveway was to put my SUV into 4-wheel drive and to repeatedly drive back and forth to mush the snow down…except for the one 12-inch snowfall when that highway robber with a plow charged me $40 to clear my driveway. :mad:
We haven’t had any weekends this year, not yet.
Winter’s not over yet, folks. Try checking back to this thread around February 15. I’ll bet things will be quite different, or I’ll eat a snowball.
Not a convincing bet. How about a yellow snowball?
This of course is incorrect. While scenarios vary, under the more extreme (but still plausible) ones perceptible anthropogenic climate change may occur within a single lifetime.
If I have to eat it, I get to choose the color.
And I didn’t say what size snowball, but I was thinking it wouldn’t stand a chance in Hell.
See here for some examples.
That’s within my lifetime; a week-and-a-half advance is certainly a perceptable change.
To be fair to DrDeth, that’s not all that different from what he said, and he was specifically making a point in the context of this thread-- actual observed daily temperatures. Plus, the example you gave of a change noticed in 50 years is almost exaclty the same as his timeframe of “grandkids” (1 generation = 25 years).
It’s not just global warming, but solar system warming.
The sun is getting hotter. Why else would the Mars ice caps also be melting?
I listen to Neal Boortz too much.
Yes, and a single lifetime now covers at least two generations, as John Mace said. At your 50 years quite a few dudes already have grandkids.
Certainly there is no perceptible Global warming change in a single years time.
Nor are we sure at all as to how much anthropogenic factors have effected GW. We *are *coming out of the “Little Ice Age”.
Right. There was a time when Greenland lived up to it’s name, at least in the southern part. The Little Ice Age killed off the Viking colony there.
Last night’s news said that locally, we might break a record for warmest January day today. However, the last record was set in 1946, back when scientists thought the planet was cooling and we were headed for an ice age. If it’s been 50 years since that warm weather, it’s not like there’s a clear trend from that data alone.
I’m not sure how much you are trying discount the anthropogenic part of ACC, but the science is very clear that we humans have been the main cause of climate change over the last century. And it’s going to get progressively worse as time goes on. Yes, there is disagreement among scientists over the precise timeframe when certain events* are gong to happen, but there is essentially no disagreement that those events will happen in the not too distant future.
*melting of the polar ice caps, rising sea levels… those types of “events”.
So, I was playing my favorite on-line game with a friend last night when, suddenly, the wind from the west started gusting with tremendous strength. A few seconds later, there was a very powerful peal of thunder accompanied by deluge of rain that was being carried directly through my window by the powerful gusting wind. As I ran around wildly shutting windows, I could feel the building itself rattle from the power of the storm. Then, I heard hail hitting the windows and outer walls. Yep, HAIL. Today will be the second day in a row that we hit 60 degrees.
This would have been an extremely powerful storm even for the spring season, much less in early February. No pun intended but, to quote a Bob Dylan line, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.” All of this bizarre stuff is bad and a portent of things to come, I’m afraid.
Yeah, I was very confused to see this was a zombie thread. I was kinda excited to join what I thought was a current convo, since here in western Mitten State it was in the 50s yesterday, with a wind like you wouldn’t believe, and the weather was absolutely the #1 topic of conversation, with a bit of ongoing contention between Team “I miss snow!” and Team “Gimme ALL the warmth!”
Supposed to snow in about a week. We shall see.