After I got home from work today I walked a few blocks to get a cup of coffee and maybe a pastry. It had been raining off and on all day. I noticed when I had been outside for a bit that it was now snowing. As of this moment it is...raining, nothing else mixed in.
This has been happening all winter, which is now ⅔ over. Anytime it starts snowing either the temperature rises enough to melt it or precipitation stops or a mixture thereof. We haven't had a covering of snow on the ground in the whole season.
I'm not going to come down on whether this phenomenon is good, bad, or indifferent. But it is one of the reasons why you can't give a kid a sled for Christmas now. Maybe there are sled rentals for very fluffy winter days now. I could see making some scratch with that.
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Portland, OR just had two years worth of snow in one day - 11 inches - and apparently it snowed all the way down to LA. California has had a lot of rain this winter which should stop the drought for the time being.
On the other hand Belle in Ontario and Diana, a friend who lives in Northern Alberta, have both reported dealing with far less than the usual amount of winter snow. Then there's Buffalo.. people in Toronto used to say the residents of Buffalo are always surprised when it snows there.
It's hard to make predictions but it's easy to get alarmed (might take a little while to load).
It's interesting that the West Coast has been slammed this year while we in the east have pretty much gotten a dry winter. My impression is that it's usually the other way around. The upper Midwest has gotten a lot of snow, so some things remain constant.
Sounds like a strange situation in that particular area of Canada. Buffalo is very close to it. Radio and TV news at Nanna's house always used to talk about it.
Like a lot of scientists, climate scientists shade the truth to make themselves seem more important. Not the most shameful thing, except that their studies and models then get adopted into policy.
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