What's going on with the weather

[JolyStNicholas]

I know you'll "Hate" me after reading this, but it was 79* yesterday with lots of sunshine and it suppose to be the same today{Saturday} Going over to Melbourne to watch some Reinactors {Knightly type} beat each other "Silly"
for their "SilverSpurs"

But I do "Love" Snow! Being "JolyStNick" ya Know!

[Pleater]

It is global warming - but what we experience climate change.

It just makes the usual pattern of weather no longer usual and everything becomes erratic.

I came home to find my apple trees just breaking into blossom, and a few bees hovering around looking for ones to stuff their noses into, so it is definitely Spring, and warm enough to open the windows in the afternoons now.

Soon be warm enough for thunderstorms, with the odd hail shower thrown in.

Anne the Pleater

[cessna152towser]

I think the effect of climate change means that some areas of the world are getting colder, while others may be warming up. I'd have thought the two would have balanced one another out and that the term Global Warming is something of a misnomer. Certainly we had more frost and snow over the past winter than is usual here, though at present the weather here is about average for springtime.
I have seen it snowing here in late May, around ten years ago, and although it didn't last long in town, it lay on the surrounding hills at altitudes above 1,000 feet for several days.

[The Barry]

"Global warming" is a misnomer. A better, more accurate term is "global climate destabilization". The patterns that we have relied on for a very long time are starting to tip off of their equilibrium. Unless you don't believe in that sort of thing; in that case, go buy another Hummer!

[george7]

Yeah, still sunshine and cool breezes here in Central Florida.

[ali8780]

"Global warming" is a misnomer. A better, more accurate term is "global climate destabilization". The patterns that we have relied on for a very long time are starting to tip off of their equilibrium. Unless you don't believe in that sort of thing; in that case, go buy another Hummer!

yes, but it's great fodder for jokes at Al Gore's expense. Not that there isn't enough material already...

[Woodsheal]

"Climate change".... An odd term. When in the history of the earth was the climate ever static?

[JelicoCat]

I wonder what will happen when magnetic north and south decide to flip, besides having to by a new compass.

[rodandy]

I know what you mean. We are up for our weekly check on Mom and it SNOWED all the way from Colorado Springs to Denver, rained cats and dogs till we got to Longmont and then started snowing again. Here in Estes at 6 PM the house had 18+ inches of snow on the roof. AND it is still coming down!!

That's one of the reasons I left Colorado almost 30 years ago.

That stretch of I-25 over Monument Pass between Colorado Springs and Denver can be really nasty.

It seems that every time I go back to visit family I bring record extremes of weather. One Christmas a number of years ago there was a string of 10 days where the high for the day was below -10 F. Before my arrival it had never been more than 3 days in a row where it had been that cold in Denver.

Several years later, over the 4th of July weekend we had 10 days of high temps over 100 F. where it had never been over 100 for more than 3 days in Denver.

[dfmacliam]

No snow in my part of Texas, but this weekend we had a ridiculace amount of rain in two days