RAIN!!!

[321BAR]

You don't get to talk...  

in Mass we havent even had a true snow storm since... October...

which is strange because we rarely get snow in october and its usually december-february when the storms hit good...

we've had 3 small storms and the snow melted by two days later (in dec-january)...

which usually stays on the ground for a week or so...

which is hilarious because i dont remember any years past where the thermometer on the bank landed at 65 degrees... in january...

when we usually have a highest temperature OF THE MONTH of 40 degrees...

in january...

[AHTbolt]

5 and a half inches got me  a day off work due to flooded roads.

[2ADoc]

Hey send some of that wet stuff down here would ya?

[EskimoJoe]

in Mass we havent even had a true snow storm since... October...

which is strange because we rarely get snow in october and its usually december-february when the storms hit good...

we've had 3 small storms and the snow melted by two days later (in dec-january)...

which usually stays on the ground for a week or so...

which is hilarious because i dont remember any years past where the thermometer on the bank landed at 65 degrees... in january...

when we usually have a highest temperature OF THE MONTH of 40 degrees...

in january...

I'm excited, this weekend's high is supposed to be 16 degrees! Talk about a darn heat wave! Might have to break out the shorts 

[321BAR]

I'm excited, this weekend's high is supposed to be 16 degrees! Talk about a darn heat wave! Might have to break out the shorts 

if only i lived in alaska too bud id be skiing every other day. im pissed that we havent had any great snow making weather yet here. it felt like april all january. and people say global warming isnt real

[Shuffler]

My Daughter is working on a internship in Alaska.

[Melvin]

and people say global warming isnt real

Actually, the record high in January for Medway Mass. was 68 degrees. It was set in 1950.


Global warming must be taking FOREVER.

 

[321BAR]

Actually, the record high in January for Medway Mass. was 68 degrees. It was set in 1950.


Global warming must be taking FOREVER.

 

check the last 70 years compared to that temperature melvin then get back to me on this one

edit: it hit 65 a week and a half ago iirc


lemme just add one note to this post... a temperature check has to be taken of the area as a whole and the average overall otherwise it is pointless to see a number and think one idea.
within the last 200 years the mean global temperature has risen from 13.6 degrees C to 14.9 degrees C studies have shown that the majority of this temperature rise has escalated and occured within the last 50 years with the temperature difference being  a mean of 13.9 in 1960 and 14.9 in 2009 <S>

OHH! and yes! global warming DOES take forever hell they even say the sun is included as a factor by comparing temperatures taken on mars also and the fact that mars's global temperature has risen alongside of ours.

but this thread isnt about global warming so lets leave it at this

[chaser]

if only i lived in alaska too bud id be skiing every other day. im pissed that we havent had any great snow making weather yet here. it felt like april all january. and people say global warming isnt real

Global warming isn't causing this. Just a crazy weather pattern being driven by the NAO (North Atlantic Oscilation) and La Nina. Its happened before and it will happen again.

[ghi]

Global warming isn't causing this. Just a crazy weather pattern being driven by the NAO (North Atlantic Oscilation) and La Nina. Its happened before and it will happen again.

It's the magnetic pole shift;we are sucking the oil out and the iron core starts grinding out of lube.
The Euro governments must take it serious if they spend big $$ ,in this economic crisis, to find out what's going on;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CFdBPrC4f0

[flight17]

I know it's been a while but why does everybody have to forget how to drive in it?

I think its just TExas Drivers in General...

[Tupac]

I think its just TExas Drivers in General...

As 2ADoc said, that is what we get for living south of the taco curtain.

[321BAR]

Global warming isn't causing this. Just a crazy weather pattern being driven by the NAO (North Atlantic Oscilation) and La Nina. Its happened before and it will happen again.

so... youre saying that martian temperatures are rising parallel to earth's because of OUR north atlantic and la nina? along with the proof that this is the sun's most active period ever recorded? whether we are the reason or not, the proof stands. the earth's temperature is rising, la nina is created by higher temperatures chaser just to let you know, the ice cap melting creates a speedier NAO also, less salt in the water due to ice melt destabilizes the weather patterns, and the jet stream is moving north every year.

Tell springfield MA this is all just normal and they'd probably slap ya one too...


granted, the earth's weather patterns have repeated themselves but this expedient?

[Melvin]

within the last 200 years the mean global temperature has risen from 13.6 degrees C to 14.9 degrees C

Umm, show me where I can find accurate weather data that goes back to 1812.

Surgeon General Of The Army James Tilton didn't order fellow surgeons to start recording weather data until 1814. I highly doubt that the local observations done with rudimentary instruments would qualify in this day and age.

OHH! and yes! global warming DOES take forever

granted, the earth's weather patterns have repeated themselves but this expedient?

So which is it Skippy? Does natural climate change take forever, or are we heating up at an amazingly rapid and frightful pace?

 


Her in the U.P. we enjoyed a mild early winter (nobody was complaining for sure).

It didn't save us from this...



And we still have 24" of ice on the local res...


 

[Penguin]

Natural climate change usually takes forever.  However, when an asteroid strikes or the Yellowstone volcano erupts mass extinctions occur because there is little time for life to adapt.  These changes are even more rapid than what we see today- especially in the case of an asteroid.  However, seeing as no massive bodies have plowed into the earth lately, we can discount those as a cause.  That leaves man-made warming as the only possible option.  The temperature itself isn't what proves man made warming (3 billion years ago makes today seem frigid, but people weren' there yet); the sudden spike in temperature in the absence of sudden changes in nature does.

-Penguin