Global warming / cooling change in your area?
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:laugh: :laugh: Congratulations, you win the award for the most amount incorrect physics in a single paragraph.
Simon
Did you ever see Barbarella? With the land-yacht powered by fans blowing wind into the sails! :laugh:
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Article on arctic record temp: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/729187.html[^] Year before last we had such weather that our plum trees actually broke some of their branches off due to the heavy amount of fruit. There were 3-4 inch think branches, which have never happened before ove the last 40+ years. Also, it seems are weather has changed where we now have winter and then directly into summer. In the older days, August was when we would be in the heat and now it is late June and early July, it is much like spring was deleted and summer move earlier a month. Have you noticed in major issues in your neck of the woods?
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Maybe 2cm of snow on very rare occasions, I've seen buds opening on New Years day a few times (UK). I can remember half a metre of snow and you expected a fair bit over winter.
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I think gravity is much more here lately ;P (also seems to be much worse between 3-5pm on weekdays)
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((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x))This might also explain why time slow down during that period :) .
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This might also explain why time slow down during that period :) .
Fridays it tends to get bad, except this Friday, we have our monthly braai (BBQ) starting in less than an hour. Free beer and boerewors rolls, mmmmm, yummy :)
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I remember, when I was a boy, walking to school through 40 feet of snow. Now...nothing. Even the hills are now are only uphill in one direction. But seriously, GW posts should be in the soapbox as they usually end up being "tense" debates.
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I am seriously thinking about giving up snowboard and learn kitesurf instead. It's gonna be lots of fun after the flood ! :laugh:
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I am seriously thinking about giving up snowboard and learn kitesurf instead. It's gonna be lots of fun after the flood ! :laugh:
If you live somewhere that you can snowboard i recommend speed-flying, it's like kitesurfing with an extra shot of adrenaline. You can learn while there's nice soft snow to fall on and then when it all melts you can carry on without the natural crash mat.
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Article on arctic record temp: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/729187.html[^] Year before last we had such weather that our plum trees actually broke some of their branches off due to the heavy amount of fruit. There were 3-4 inch think branches, which have never happened before ove the last 40+ years. Also, it seems are weather has changed where we now have winter and then directly into summer. In the older days, August was when we would be in the heat and now it is late June and early July, it is much like spring was deleted and summer move earlier a month. Have you noticed in major issues in your neck of the woods?
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Rocky Moore wrote:
Have you noticed in major issues in your neck of the woods?
This decade has been the best weather we have had in the last 4 decades (I was born in 72 and it was -15F when I left the hospital..) by a considerable margin. It has had cooler summers with warmer winters and significantly calmer and less violent weather especially in summer. Hmm, did we even have 5 thunderstorms this year? Don't remember. If this continues I see no reason to have to move south (sorry Florida) when I get old to avoid the harsh 6 month winters we had in the 70s and 80s.
John
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I am seriously thinking about giving up snowboard and learn kitesurf instead. It's gonna be lots of fun after the flood ! :laugh:
Kastellanos Nikos wrote:
It's gonna be lots of fun after the flood !
Day after day, more people come to L.A. Ssh! Don't you tell anybody the whole place is slipping away. Where can we go when there's no San Francisco? Ssh! Better get ready to tie up the boat in Idaho. Do you know the swim? You better learn quick, Jim. Those who don't know how to swim, better sing the hymn. :-D ;) :omg:
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Article on arctic record temp: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/729187.html[^] Year before last we had such weather that our plum trees actually broke some of their branches off due to the heavy amount of fruit. There were 3-4 inch think branches, which have never happened before ove the last 40+ years. Also, it seems are weather has changed where we now have winter and then directly into summer. In the older days, August was when we would be in the heat and now it is late June and early July, it is much like spring was deleted and summer move earlier a month. Have you noticed in major issues in your neck of the woods?
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There doesn't seem to be a pattern to it at all, it's just more extreme than normal. Extreme drought in the summer one year, extreme cold in the summer the next, dryness in times of the year when it is normally very rainy then very rainy the next year. There does seem to be consistently less really cold winter days than we used to have but that's about all I can fathom from this. Last spring was the coldest on record for our area and one of the driest as well. Nothing grew properly, we had no fruit on our orchard, no nuts on our nut trees, tomatoes couldn't be put out until very late and into summer and then they didn't really start producing until September and finally froze off last week. The best I can determine from global warming is an overall slow warming trend but much more noticeably chaotic weather that locks into long term and unusual patterns.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
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Article on arctic record temp: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/729187.html[^] Year before last we had such weather that our plum trees actually broke some of their branches off due to the heavy amount of fruit. There were 3-4 inch think branches, which have never happened before ove the last 40+ years. Also, it seems are weather has changed where we now have winter and then directly into summer. In the older days, August was when we would be in the heat and now it is late June and early July, it is much like spring was deleted and summer move earlier a month. Have you noticed in major issues in your neck of the woods?
Rocky <>< Recent Blog Post: Raise Taxes? On who? Thinking about Silverlight? www.SilverlightCity.com
Oh, noooooo. This has been an on-going joke in my family for the last forty years... literally. Start keeping track, now. Seriously... Do this... Keep track that, twice every year, there are people who will say:
_"Wow. It seems like summer (or winter) came really fast this year. Like, there was **no** spring (or fall) at all. It's like we went from winter, right into summer (or from summer into winter)."_Pay attention. Now that fall (or winter) is coming, you'll see what I mean. And, now that you noticed this predictable pattern this year, it will drive you crazy for the rest of your life. Welcome to my life. -
Rocky Moore wrote:
Have you noticed in major issues in your neck of the woods?
This decade has been the best weather we have had in the last 4 decades (I was born in 72 and it was -15F when I left the hospital..) by a considerable margin. It has had cooler summers with warmer winters and significantly calmer and less violent weather especially in summer. Hmm, did we even have 5 thunderstorms this year? Don't remember. If this continues I see no reason to have to move south (sorry Florida) when I get old to avoid the harsh 6 month winters we had in the 70s and 80s.
John
:)
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There doesn't seem to be a pattern to it at all, it's just more extreme than normal. Extreme drought in the summer one year, extreme cold in the summer the next, dryness in times of the year when it is normally very rainy then very rainy the next year. There does seem to be consistently less really cold winter days than we used to have but that's about all I can fathom from this. Last spring was the coldest on record for our area and one of the driest as well. Nothing grew properly, we had no fruit on our orchard, no nuts on our nut trees, tomatoes couldn't be put out until very late and into summer and then they didn't really start producing until September and finally froze off last week. The best I can determine from global warming is an overall slow warming trend but much more noticeably chaotic weather that locks into long term and unusual patterns.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
Yeah, I agree! It is strange how things swing to the extreme so often now.
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Article on arctic record temp: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/729187.html[^] Year before last we had such weather that our plum trees actually broke some of their branches off due to the heavy amount of fruit. There were 3-4 inch think branches, which have never happened before ove the last 40+ years. Also, it seems are weather has changed where we now have winter and then directly into summer. In the older days, August was when we would be in the heat and now it is late June and early July, it is much like spring was deleted and summer move earlier a month. Have you noticed in major issues in your neck of the woods?
Rocky <>< Recent Blog Post: Raise Taxes? On who? Thinking about Silverlight? www.SilverlightCity.com
The last two years here in northern Thailand have been pathetic in terms of the kara-croaky contests of bullfrogs which normally are held following very heavy rains, and often run into over-time if everyone hasn't spawned. The bullfrogs around here are vocal acrobats compared to the wimpy-croakers of the swamps of Florida I messed around in as a boy (at times gigging frogs, and, yes, eating their legs fried). I also agree with Leppie's astute observation that : "I think gravity is much more here lately." And I notice, perhaps reciprocally related to Leppie's phenomenon, a break-up of my own levity, with entire shelfs breaking off my incontinence. best, Bill
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