Plumbata
Well-Known Member
So Steve, or anyone else who is enlightened regarding the strange weather we've had this winter, why has it been so darn warm, and what are the future implications?
Here in Central Illinois the ground hasn't yet frozen for the season, and no snow has accumulated. High of 47 today, and a high of 53 tomorrow. It's been unseasonably balmy for weeks, save a few days where the highs were a bit below freezing.
I'm not complaining about being able to maintain comfortable activity outdoors, but does this strange weather pattern bode ill for the spring and summer? The droughts and 100+ degree temps in the southwest were quite severe last year; is it related to the mild winter so-far, and will the droughts likely continue this year?
Perhaps the winter climate is just incredibly constipated, and soon the mounting pressure will blow-out in the form of a 3 day blizzard which drops 4 feet of snow and sub-zero temperatures over half the US. [
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One of my friends said that the weather has him in a weird mood lately; usually people here are somewhat snowbound and in hibernation-mode by now. Since it's been nice and people are still out-and-about he hasn't been able to withdraw and relax in peaceful solitude, with people constantly calling trying to hang-out or go bar-hopping and thus disrupting his yearly recharge-phase. I never thought about it this way, but I like his thinking. []
Here in Central Illinois the ground hasn't yet frozen for the season, and no snow has accumulated. High of 47 today, and a high of 53 tomorrow. It's been unseasonably balmy for weeks, save a few days where the highs were a bit below freezing.
I'm not complaining about being able to maintain comfortable activity outdoors, but does this strange weather pattern bode ill for the spring and summer? The droughts and 100+ degree temps in the southwest were quite severe last year; is it related to the mild winter so-far, and will the droughts likely continue this year?
Perhaps the winter climate is just incredibly constipated, and soon the mounting pressure will blow-out in the form of a 3 day blizzard which drops 4 feet of snow and sub-zero temperatures over half the US. [
]One of my friends said that the weather has him in a weird mood lately; usually people here are somewhat snowbound and in hibernation-mode by now. Since it's been nice and people are still out-and-about he hasn't been able to withdraw and relax in peaceful solitude, with people constantly calling trying to hang-out or go bar-hopping and thus disrupting his yearly recharge-phase. I never thought about it this way, but I like his thinking. [
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