WTF is up with the Weather?

[Electric Amish]

We're on a freakin' rollercoaster here in Utah. 80's for a week or two, 40-50's for a week or two, back to the 80's for a couple of weeks, and now we're back into the 40-50's.

amish

[The PIT]

The same effect may also occur due to the melting of the polar caps in the present day. The melted water is denser apparently. Thats if the report is correct of course.
As for snow on Christmas is been very common here (Sheffield) for the last few years. Also for the first time for many years we had a small amount of snow lying for a week.

[mdhome]

Originally posted by The PIT
The same effect may also occur due to the melting of the polar caps in the present day. The melted water is denser apparently. Thats if the report is correct of course.
As for snow on Christmas is been very common here (Sheffield) for the last few years. Also for the first time for many years we had a small amount of snow lying for a week.

Sorry Pit, I should have made myself clearer. We dont usually have snop in either Bristol, where I spent most of my life or in Milton Keynes, where I have been living for the past 10 years.

Regards Michael

[Greebe]

The Gulf stream is akin to a fresh water river in the ocean. Being fresh water it is in fact denser than salt water.

[The PIT]

Isn't there another current under the gulf stream that flows in the opposite direction and contains cool water?

[Marshmallowman]

here in Western Australia we are on water restrictions (and have been for the last 2 years), their is a bit of drought that does not want to go away.


As to minimal temperature changes, remember we have large polar ice caps that buffer temperature variation, they polar caps are melting and new big ice sheets break off every year, glaciers are getting smaller. so we are not warming to much, but we are retaining a lot more heat...and polar bears are running out of ice

So while it may get dryer here in oz (and yes the weather is getting weirdly milder here too), we may get our inland sea back in a couple of hundred years...

[ChronosZero]

Yeah. I went to Ayers Rock (for those who aren't current on their Australian geography, it's in the middle of the continent, middle of the desert) about two years ago, just in time to see the bugger as green as any desert I had seen. It had been raining for the better part of a month, coming off 7 years of not seeing more than an inch. It was really beautiful. Every desert plant was in bloom. Since it's a red sand desert there, everything looked very colorful and a little christmas-y.

I assume from your comments Marshmallowman, that this trend has continued over the last couple years? I would miss the desert if the place turned into an inland sea, but I can't say that I would miss Alice Springs. That place just gave me the creeps. *shiver*

edited to clear up grammar

[Wombat]

It's been 70 here the past few days. Then, yesterday I started my morning by brushing 2" of snow off my car.

[ChronosZero]

And now we're back to high 60s & 70s for the week. I love Colorado weather.

But hey... we really needed the moisture, in whatever form. Did you know the high country only got 19% of the average snow fall for the year? We'll be okay for now, but if it happens again next year, expect to have water usage restrictions next summer.

[Dr Mordrid]

hehe...one thing we don't have to worry about is water restrictions!!

Go down 4-6' about anywhere in Michigan and you get wet. Damned neare anyone with a shovel can dig wells

Dr. Mordrid