Back in ontario after being gone for 20+ years....Want to know is this temperature typical for this time of the year in ottawa/sothern ontario....Was precipitation/rain fall low this summer?
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Back in ontario after being gone for 20+ years....Want to know is this temperature typical for this time of the year in ottawa/sothern ontario....Was precipitation/rain fall low this summer?
The new normal is there is no normal. In south/central Ontario it was a very hot dry summer. Warm great Lakes leads to mild but potentially heavy/wet snow in winter. Here in the "snow belt" we've had many green Christmases in the last 15-20 years.
And just when we think that is normal, we'll be buried up to our butts in snow for three months.Quote:
Originally Posted by kickingfrog
It's getting to be more normal as each year goes on, not due to climate change as climate change does not exist.
our pond out back is about 6-7' lower than it used to be ten years ago, been like that each fall for a while.
3 feet of snow was a slow month not that long ago here.
Just moved back from nfld....Weather there is soul crushing....2010 we had 21 feet in one year....Best part of experiencing weather there was the weather bombs....Oh the weather bombs...Like the time we 50 centimetres of snow followed by 100 millimetres of rain....I love the weather here.... Here you shovel the snow...The snow stays were you put it....There you have your primary removal....Then you wait a couple hrs then you do your secondary removal about half the snow is back in your yard....Then final clean up after the 90-120 km winds die down....So a 50 centimetre storm is really 95cm....Just imagine when a 80cm storm blows in! You literally spend your day snow blowing....Till finally you say ''IM DONE IT IS GOING TO STAY THE WAY IT IS!'' Last year i shoveld once....People here really don't know how good they have it....Its not a storm until the plows give up because they can't see past their bonet of their trucks....And there is a chance first responders aren't coming unless it is an emergency....
At least you have lots of bait.Quote:
Originally Posted by Noseyarentcha
Change will be coming soon. Currently the Arctic air is trapped over Siberia. Once a Greenland block is in place and the cold air can migrate back this way we will be groaning about the cold and snow. Latest indications are snow likely in some parts of S. Ontario next week.
December into February expected to be cold and snowy as S. Ontario is set up this year to be a possible bullseye for active storm track with the positioning of the jet stream. Time will tell.
... uh.... WAS there ever a "normal???? or are you thinking average.
My dad passed away over 20 years ago now and the last week of October was the 4 day pheasant season in Kent county, I can recall hunting in shorts and a wintercoat with 3" of snow another year. I was just thinking about the Christmas I was wearing a light jacket at my dad's. The one "normal" about the weather is that it changes.
Yep there is snow in the forecast to. http://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/on-130_metric_e.html
As for climate change .... "climate changes naturally" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExgKJpJyDXQ and I love where the University weather station was.. in a parking lot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjlPvwRP-fM
The lake Huron levels are the highest we have seen in the 10 years at the cottage by about a foot and I see ponds dry or way down...:confused:
Definitely a 30 year warming trend since I've lived in NWOntario.Quote:
Originally Posted by steelshot
We used to ice fish April 14th.
Now I am in the boat in mid April in the back bays of Rainy Lake.
25 years ago I used to bring in green tomatoes to ripen indoors at first frost in early September.
Last fifteen+ years I get 100% outdoor tomato ripening
This year, I am still harvesting fresh veg from the garden in mid November --- in Division 10!! Kale, celery, spinach, radicchio, lettuce, beets and carrots. Mojito mint. Parsley.
30 years ago, local kids planned Halloween Costumes to be over snow suits. Not any more. It was 10+C this year at Halloween.
This year is exceptionally weird. Very warm. We've had only 3 or 4 days below freezing at night since August.
That's not normal.
Say want you want patvetzal 30 years of personal observation plus the majority of the world scientists (not connected to Oil Industry, Right Wingers or Conspiracy Theorists) agree-- the world is warming.
They say the large earth quake and tsunami a few years ago shifted the earths axis and seasonal changes are going to be delayed a month and a half to two months. But the summer and winter solstice are the same so I don't see how that could be true. Unless they are calculating the solstice based on the new wobble.
Climate change doesn't exist?Quote:
Originally Posted by patvetzal
I hope that's a joke......
I often read that the changes are natural, not due to human activity but the fifty year studies of lake trout breeding shows that in central Ontario the trout are in trouble because of warmer winters. ( they actually hatch too soon and their food supply is not there yet because it depends on length of daylight) Many years all the fry starve.....
Few people say that there isn't a warming trend going on - the disagreement comes in when some say that it is because of humans burning fossil fuels -
Exactly!!. Warming and cooling trends have been happening forever, IMO the human effect is mostly insignificant in the big picture.Quote:
Originally Posted by JoePa
There are some very interesting reports out there from elders in the native communities of the far north who say that navigating by the stars has changed over the years, they don't end up where they used to in the past. Basically they're suggesting that the Earth has shifted on it's axis. Makes much more sense to me than all the malarkey being thrown out there by the green machine, specially when it seems to totally revolve around money, with no positive proof that it's actually making any difference at all.
Cheers
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Originally Posted by JoePa
Well it is all those fossilized dinosaurs fault... the plants and their corpses turned to coal....
Dinosaurs' Gaseous Emissions Warmed Earth?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...ce-flatulence/
:scream::silly: :cool:
Some interesting videos on historic climate change.Quote:
Originally Posted by smitty55
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Originally Posted by mosquito
I think the government is trying anything to help the dwindling bee problem....Good on them....If there was ever a problem worth "Trying something" this is definitely it....Two things in nature you don't mess with....Bats and Bees....Both of witch are in serious decline....I put up a bat house last year....Went on a buddies property cut two whip straight trees 16ft long and put it up....What is really impacting the bat population is feral/outdoor cats....Now that is a scourge in this provence and country for that matter! They kill more song birds and baby animals then natural mortality,predation, and migration combined.
wind turbines causing large bat deaths
https://www.google.ca/search?sourcei...9138j0j4&rct=j
I heard that there is something about the turbines that some how jams, or leaves a hole in the bats sonar picture so that they may not even know they are there. Don't know that is true, but it would be hard to prove one way or the other.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sharon
I agree that the earth is warming and the wind has increased in a huge way across Ontario. I think it us part of a bigger change going on.the climate change we hear about on the news everyday is just a cash generation. Climate has been changing from the beginning of time and is nothing new.
Actually it's the Liberals who are killing the bats.
Yes of course there is climate change happening. It's a process that has always happened on this planet. Dinosaurs and reptiles ruled the earth during one period and then were wiped out with colder periods. Then you had ice ages and interestingly they ended too and warmer periods returned. Man had no impact on this yet these temperature swings occurred naturally. So for the chicken little hypocrites and public teat barnacles to claim man is causing imminent doom is well.....self serving Bullsheet. Yes of course we have an impact and should reverse our trends of polluting our planet. But for imbeciles like Trudough to fly over 300 friends to Paris and spew more jet plane emissions and then "announce" he will reduce global temperatures by 2 degrees is beyond laughable, it's troubling. Until the shiny pony can control the planet and the moon and the sun's orbits then it's all in bigger hands regardless of what Trudough thinks of himself.
Carbon taxes have proved to not reduce emissions. Any reductions are from the economies shrinking due to excessive taxation. Wynne and Trudough are on an ideological path that will seriously hurt the middle class through inflation and job losses. Best prepare for very hard times ahead now that the USA is rejecting the climate change hysteria. Wynne and Trudough will position us at such a competitive disadvantage that we will have to return to producers of natural resources only which ironically the left look down on.
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Originally Posted by terrym
https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...ines-continue/
http://www.lfpress.com/2016/07/20/wi...d-species-list
Bats are being killed in Ontario at the rate of 18.5 per turbine, resulting in an estimated 42,656 bat fatalities in Ontario between May 1 and October 31, 2015, according to the report released by Bird Studies Canada, a bird conservation organization.
Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources has set 10 bat deaths per turbine as the threshold at which the mortalities are considered significant and warrant action.
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Birds are taking less of a hit from wind turbines, according to the report, with an estimated 14,144 non-raptors killed by wind turbines and 462 raptor fatalities between May 1 and October 31 in 2015.
Math time, sorry to confuse lefties, each windmill killing ESTIMATED 18.5 bats times JUST 2,000 thousand of new windmills.... and we are talking 37,100 bats... so 42,656+37,100 = 79,756.
Using http://www.windontario.ca/
Ontario is building 7700 Wind Turbines. (as of August 2015)
7700 * 18.5 = 142,450
Contracted West Nile and any mosquito born virus??? Class action lawsuit????
I wouldn't believe turbines are a problem.....Until i saw one close up! These things are mammoth.....Song bird migrations have to be impacted by turbines as well....
Give me Nuke in my Backyard any day before filling the landscape with those awful wind turbines!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by steelshot
The original topic was regarding weather....let's keep it on topic.
Regarding weather - talks of first decent winter storm for S. Ontario later next week. Still early but if it holds it could be interesting. Could bomb out and be strong winds and rain or maybe even snow. Just need the cold temps to descend into the area so we can get the snow flying and the lakes freezing.
I don't care if it rains , snows .... just give me some SUN!