Last weekend it was +13 and now it's -27 . :whacked: I doubt we will be doing our Saturday morning forest run today, dog Isn't impressed.
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Last weekend it was +13 and now it's -27 . :whacked: I doubt we will be doing our Saturday morning forest run today, dog Isn't impressed.
It's definitely been a season of extremes.
Once we're out the other side of this cold snap though, it is hopefully going to be a nice gradual warm-up through to spring. It would be great if we could get a 4-7 week maple syruping season. Even cold-haters should be able to appreciate -5 nights and +5 days.
I was supposed to go to London early this morning for my class and decided to stay off Hwy 402 because of conditions. It's been so windy the last couple of days that i tied down my barbecue to the railing on my deck. The wind was so strong coming off Lake Huron it snapped the rope and blew over my barbecue !
Our dogs are enjoying the warmth of the woodstove fire down stairs in the rec room. minus 22 this morning at 8:30 brrr!
Around here , we may have a poor syrup season , I spoke with my friend yesterday who runs a rather large syrup operation and he claims there is no frost in the ground and he is very leary this year about poor sap production. We'll just have to wait and see.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oddmott
This is kicking the crap out of the livestock, gets humid then cold and windy then humid then cold, we lost a rooster and have had the combs of our chickens fall off, nasty year.
I called my brother to day . He was cutting the grass and enjoying the daffodils. He lives on Vancouver Island.
We have lotsa frost in the ground over here because we didn't get any snow until a week ago. They could not groom the trails until they got snow. And yet the few inches that we did have kept the lakes from freezing.....
Minus 38F or -37C this morning....First time that the geothermal had trouble keeping the house at the set point. Set at 68 but could only keep it at 66 ( the aux electric is locked off). The geothermal draws the same hydro as two baseboard heaters or 2.8 kW to heat the house ...
-38 this morning, +3 next week end. Mother Nature isn't thinking right, just like our government! Lol
Sweatshirt weather last week, -18 this morning, was colder yesterday with high winds, hitting positive temperatures by Monday and should hold for the week. Anyone know if this mild, fluctuating winter temperatures will allow an increase in ticks etc this coming spring?
Rain coming within a week....last night the furnace could not keep up.
Anyone who still doubts the idea of climate change?
Storm warning in Eastern Ontario starting tonight into tomorrow. At its peak 1 to 3 cm an hour. Possible accumulation of 25 - 35 cm.
Just coming off of -28C temps at night the last 3 days.
Longest I've been into a year without drilling a hole somewhere.... Simcoe hasn't been safe where I like to go and back home has been riddled with slush. Crazy year for sure
It was only -28 here last night - that's nothing new - neither is rain in February, particularly in el nino winters. What is new is the internet and all the hype that surrounds, well, just about everything, be it the Y2K scare, global warming and now "climate change".Quote:
Originally Posted by patvetzal
LOL climate is always changing. We don't live in a controlled environment like greenhouse. lol
Yes...the only thing constant is change.Quote:
Originally Posted by yellow dog
But it is the weather that is changing, not the climate.
Not to worry. Trudough, Neil Young and Di Caprio are on it. They will collectively adjust the planets orbit as well as the sun's. All will be well and they have committed to reducing the planet's temperature. Thank god we now have such attractive people on the case ( well except for Young). I bet Sophie Gregoire is writing a song right now about the planet. Everything will be fine. What could possibly go wrong with such well rounded and educated luminaries on the case? They even went to Paris. Sunny days.....
LOL You're a riot Terry.
http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/...psf34045cd.jpg
Been out of school too long... What is the difference?Quote:
Originally Posted by werner.reiche
Weather is over short term, climate is over long term.Quote:
Originally Posted by patvetzal
Rain last week, -29 this week is weather.
The dirty thirties and the mini-ice age of the 1880's - more weather.
The medieval warm period and the current cold period we are currently in - that's climate change.
...and for those obsessed by global warming or climate change or whatever it is now - please keep in mind that from a climatological perspective, we are still in a "cold" period. When it gets warm enough to grow grapes in Newfoundland again, then maybe we can talk about "climate change".
I just look at all the record breaking floods, cold spells, heat waves that are happening around the world and can't help that think things are changing...climate OR weather.
Of course things are changing. They always have and always will regardless of the arrogance of those who think they can control it. Man did not cause the end of the ice age yet it happened, why is that? There was a time when reptiles roamed most of the planet, man did not cool the climate and cause species to disappear. Climate change rhetoric is a very lucrative industry but it isn't changing how our planet is evolving and never will. Of course we need to reverse our destructive footprint but the crap spewed by the alarmists is just crapp.
Another beautiful example of suckin while blowin.Quote:
Originally Posted by terrym
Sorry, but the "alarmists" are simply saying we need to stop our destruction, and make every effort to reverse that which has already been done.
While folks like you say "no we don't" and "we don't have the power to affect earth / climate / blah blah" and "Well those other guys across the pond are using way dirtier technology, so why should we improve anything until they do?"
While some of the extreme claims of cause/effect in various realms of climate change have been ludicrous. They're no more ludicrous than those who claim that humans don't have the ability to affect climate change.
FFS, it's simple math that our atmosphere is made up of a particular set of molecules, in a particular mix. Change that mix by a particular degree, and hold it there for a particular time and you're going to see cascading changes. But yes, the scope is so huge that the changes aren't noticeable in a human lifespan... so the naysayers get to cling to the belief that it's just "normal" change, not accelerated change.
Another example of climate altering damage humans are very easily capable of is current-altering building in seaways and along oceanic coasts. We look at these things as simple improvements for human & cargo transportation safety, or storm & weather safety improvements for land based populations... but scientists are only just now realizing just how much we've altered various ocean & sea currents since the 1920s and comprehending the affect that altering or diverting a current has on weather AND climate.
Anyone who knows anything about the basics of climate & weather knows just how important currents & tides are to the balance.
I spent 20 years working with marine modelling (sea ice and icebergs) - Humans modifying ocean currents? Never heard that before - and I'm not sure how we could even do it if we tried. Panama canal maybe? But there is insignificant flow through it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oddmott
Actually, most of that post is tinfoil-hat worthy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oddmott
I guess you're not a science major.
A lot of this is just that we are more aware of it today.Quote:
Originally Posted by patvetzal
What about the cold of the '60's and the snows of '71 and '72.
If that happened today, the internet would be awash with stories of the coming end of time.
Or the drought during the '30's - same thing.
You seem to know more than me about that stuff, I'll let you handle that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oddmott
Yup lots of snake oil salesman around .Quote:
Originally Posted by terrym
In the 70's we were heading for an ice age !Quote:
Originally Posted by werner.reiche
The earth is in a continuous flux and ever changing.
Another post on conditions in the Arctic prompted me to do 2 minutes of research and post this link.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5034026.stm
We call them lobbyists and progressives now. But hey, it's a living right?Quote:
Originally Posted by yellow dog
Go ahead and ask me about global warming MF!
On my second pass with the snow blower!
Ottawa has set a record for snowfall in one day: 42 cm. And the flakes are still falling.
The old record of 40.6 cm, set in 1947, tumbled mid-afternoon, Environment Canada confirms. The records come from Ottawa International Airport, dating back to the 1930s.
But like so much in a public service town, this record comes with a caveat. We’ve had snowier days (at least twice) but they were recorded more than a century ago and at a different measuring point.
The storm may not break two earlier records set at the Central Experimental Farm — 55.9 cm in January of 1894, and the second-place snowfall of 54.1 cm in November of 1912. But only the airport numbers count as official Ottawa records.
Earlier in the day, Geoff Coulson of Environment Canada said the total could end up “not just breaking the single-day record for February or the all-time single-day record, but burying it.”