We had snow today.

[conuly]

Big, fluffy flakes.

But it didn't stick and it didn't last.

You have no *idea* how depressed that made me. I want my snow. I'm so hoping this is really just an aberrant year.

Comments

[rainbow-slinky.livejournal.com]

Did you hear about the snow in L.A. yesterday? First time since '62 I believe they said.

[conuly]

And in Texas, and in New Mexico.

This isn't good news. Global warming doesn't mean that every spot on the earth gets warmer all the time - it means there's climate change up and down the scale. Some areas might get colder while others get warmer.

[rainbow-slinky.livejournal.com]

Yup. It's very frightening.

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

This sucks SO much, you have no idea. I moved back to Texas from NY to get WARM. *whinge*

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

I had been going to say I'd trade you. We're supposed to get our third major snowstorm of the year today and tomorrow.

And of course, I'm sure you know that one winter like this does not mean the Earth is doomed. ;-) Last winter, as far as I remember, was pretty standard both on the East Coast and here in NM.

[conuly]

I don't think the Earth is doomed at all. Society as we know it? Probably - but that'd happen no matter what, nothing lasts like that. Humanity? Maaaaaaybe - but maybe not. We're not quite as adaptable as cockroaches, but I do like to believe we can hold our own. Earth? Not hardly. The weather has changed before, and it will change again, and if the changes now are somewhat/mostly/entirely all fault - well, the living things will change with it, and adapt, and in another ten or twenty thousand years they'll wonder what all the fuss was about. If they even remember that there had been a fuss!

Of course, the next couple of generations promise to be *real* interesting. If I'm lucky, I'll be dead before the most of the changes hits.

As for last winter, it was somewhat standard - but not as much snow as usual. That made our summer drought a lot worse than usual, because of the lack of snowfall (which is now a few years running). And then we had that summer from hell. I've never heard of a national heatwave before, though I'm sure it's happened.

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

I don't think the Earth is doomed at all.

I know, I read your rant a few days ago and agree with you. I was joking.

Lack of snowfall? I remember the last two winters in New Jersey as being particularly snowy, with several good snowfalls each. In fact, I remember most of the winters since I finished college (2000) as being more snow than I'd seen in quite a while, although I don't think it was particularly snowy during '02-'03 (though it was a white Christmas that year).

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

Ahh it's been lovely here for snow.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

It's an el niño year isn't it? That explains a lot of this winter's -ed up weather worldwide. Which is not to say that it's not still worrying (some series economic implications in Europe, can't say about the US) but it does go some way to explaining it.

Map showing which areas of the world were hotter (red) or cooler (blue) this December (http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,775696,00.jpg) than... I think the average December temperatures from 2000-2005. I'm not entirely sure, since the caption (and article) are in German. I believe the darkest red and darkest blue represent +/-10°c.

[conuly]

I hadn't realized about El Nino - that *does* explain a lot.

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

I'd never paid much attention to El Niño until I moved here and all I'd been hearing for months is "Brace yourself, we're in for blizzards, it's an El Niño year! I know it hasn't started snowing yet, but trust me, it will!" (And by gosh, it sure has. I'm watching the snow clouds gather now, we're supposed to get 4-10" by tomorrow, in addition to the 9" we got right before Christmas and the 20" over New Year's.)

As I said to someone yesterday, if I liked this weather, I'd have stayed in New Jersey. Where at least they clear the @#$*!@ roads when it snows.

[(Anonymous)]

Did you hear about the snow in L.A. yesterday? First time since '62 I believe they said.

[conuly]

And in Texas, and in New Mexico.

This isn't good news. Global warming doesn't mean that every spot on the earth gets warmer all the time - it means there's climate change up and down the scale. Some areas might get colder while others get warmer.

[(Anonymous)]

Yup. It's very frightening.

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

This sucks SO much, you have no idea. I moved back to Texas from NY to get WARM. *whinge*

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

I had been going to say I'd trade you. We're supposed to get our third major snowstorm of the year today and tomorrow.

And of course, I'm sure you know that one winter like this does not mean the Earth is doomed. ;-) Last winter, as far as I remember, was pretty standard both on the East Coast and here in NM.

[conuly]

I don't think the Earth is doomed at all. Society as we know it? Probably - but that'd happen no matter what, nothing lasts like that. Humanity? Maaaaaaybe - but maybe not. We're not quite as adaptable as cockroaches, but I do like to believe we can hold our own. Earth? Not hardly. The weather has changed before, and it will change again, and if the changes now are somewhat/mostly/entirely all fault - well, the living things will change with it, and adapt, and in another ten or twenty thousand years they'll wonder what all the fuss was about. If they even remember that there had been a fuss!

Of course, the next couple of generations promise to be *real* interesting. If I'm lucky, I'll be dead before the most of the changes hits.

As for last winter, it was somewhat standard - but not as much snow as usual. That made our summer drought a lot worse than usual, because of the lack of snowfall (which is now a few years running). And then we had that summer from hell. I've never heard of a national heatwave before, though I'm sure it's happened.

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

I don't think the Earth is doomed at all.

I know, I read your rant a few days ago and agree with you. I was joking.

Lack of snowfall? I remember the last two winters in New Jersey as being particularly snowy, with several good snowfalls each. In fact, I remember most of the winters since I finished college (2000) as being more snow than I'd seen in quite a while, although I don't think it was particularly snowy during '02-'03 (though it was a white Christmas that year).

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

Ahh it's been lovely here for snow.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

It's an el niño year isn't it? That explains a lot of this winter's -ed up weather worldwide. Which is not to say that it's not still worrying (some series economic implications in Europe, can't say about the US) but it does go some way to explaining it.

Map showing which areas of the world were hotter (red) or cooler (blue) this December (http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,775696,00.jpg) than... I think the average December temperatures from 2000-2005. I'm not entirely sure, since the caption (and article) are in German. I believe the darkest red and darkest blue represent +/-10°c.

[conuly]

I hadn't realized about El Nino - that *does* explain a lot.

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

I'd never paid much attention to El Niño until I moved here and all I'd been hearing for months is "Brace yourself, we're in for blizzards, it's an El Niño year! I know it hasn't started snowing yet, but trust me, it will!" (And by gosh, it sure has. I'm watching the snow clouds gather now, we're supposed to get 4-10" by tomorrow, in addition to the 9" we got right before Christmas and the 20" over New Year's.)

As I said to someone yesterday, if I liked this weather, I'd have stayed in New Jersey. Where at least they clear the @#$*!@ roads when it snows.