Spring in January?

[Lifted]

 

[lxskllr]

Terrible weather. The stench of summer's on the air :^(

 

[JamesV]

It was around 60 degrees here today; went out hiking in the metroparks.

Three days ago I did the same hike through about a foot of snow.

Too bad it won't stay this nice; I'd love to do a camping trip in January in shorts.

 

[ImpulsE69]

January warming is normal. If alot of the snow melts, it lasts longer. It will cool down again soon enough

 

[Ruptga]

What the fuck? I guess this explains the ~foot of rain we got in SE Texas...

 

[Red Squirrel]

Here too. Most of the roads are completely down to pavement now, even my driveway is down to the cement. Noticed part of the roofs you can see shingles even. I can even see lawn in some places. Never have I seen it melt this fast in January. Though we barely had any snow to begin with.

Global warming has been happening very fast in the past years. It's actually pretty scary. You'd expect these changes to happen on a span of hundreds of years, but it's been more like 10-15 years that winters have been much shorter. It's been accelerating even more in past couple years. Last winter we had an early spring too but it was around March.

Most people see this as a positive thing and don't see the big picture, so nobody really cares about reducing emissions and stuff.

 

[ponyo]

I love it. 73 in January is a beautiful thing. It was like 63 this morning at 8:30am. Awesome!

 

[tboo]

Its back to cold here already in the mid-west. Damn windy to.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Some crazy guy must have figured "Fuck it, I'm going ice fishing anyway!"

I sure as hell would not go on that ice right now LOL. Back in the day when winters were more stable that lake would be full of fishing huts though.

 

[7window]

Be patient coldness going your way in 5 days. 54 high today

 

[sze5003]

It was 54 around here. Very nice day I took out my bike and was surprised it started right up after being covered outside for months.

 

[Chaotic42]

Bleh. I was born in Louisiana, but I'd love to live somewhere with huge mountains and bitter cold. I think it's been below freezing about two nights here this fall/winter.

 

[SSSnail]

I blame Canada.

 

[Jeeebus]

Florida... fuck yeah!

 

[Pardus]

Now no one can deny that the world is getting warmer

Nor is there any doubt about the cause of these rising temperatures. "It is due primarily to human activities, predominantly the burning of fossil fuel," the report states. As carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere soar, temperatures rise and chaos ensues. Air pollution intensifies, wildfires increase, insect-borne diseases spread, confrontations over water rights become more violent and storm surges rise. This is the near future for America and for the rest of the world. Earth is set to become a hotter, drier, unhealthier, more uncomfortable, dangerous and more disaster-prone place in coming years.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Now no one can deny that the world is getting warmer

It all sounds like a plot for another end of world movie, but it's all but reality. Very scary when you look at the big picture. yet, we will continue to pollute the same way we are, and ignore the fact that we are killing off this planet. Sad, really.

 

[Triumph]

i only care about global warming because i hate hot weather. 100 degree humid days in the summer, and no winter relief, really annoys me.

 

[SandEagle]

i saw mosquitos and flies out yesterday. strange times. the end is near

 

[manimal]

drove all my cars spiritedly yesterday and smiled from ear to ear. All went back into hidy hole.

 

[Red Squirrel]

i only care about global warming because i hate hot weather. 100 degree humid days in the summer, and no winter relief, really annoys me.

ugh yeah pretty much. We've already been getting more regular +25C's here in summer. Not fun if you need to do any kind of yard work. Saw a couple +30 days. Hits you like a wall. The worse is when I went south (Toronto area) and I saw +39C. THAT was a killer. I'd hate to see that being the regular temp here. You sweat buckets even sitting down in shade, it's brutal hot.

 

[Jaskalas]

Computer models show it flipping.... of course some of them did last year as well.

Gotta wait and see.

 

[Jaskalas]

Most people see this as a positive thing and don't see the big picture, so nobody really cares about reducing emissions and stuff.

Specific weather anomalies are 10-20 degrees. AGW is, at most, 1 degree.

You have a signal to noise problem with any attempt to form that argument.

 

[Mixolydian]

A few days ago it was in the 50's, but now it's back in the low 20's today. I guess it all evens out.

 

[CraigRT]

It is stupidly warm here. It poured all night, too bad it was not cold, would have been an awesome snowfall.

 

[Red Squirrel]

You have a signal to noise problem with any attempt to form that argument.

No clue what that's suppose to mean, but I'm not trying to form an argument, I'm just stating fact. You cannot deny that in the past years it's been getting much warmer overall, and we've been seeing much more weather abnormalities such as this. Let's not get into the fact that the ice caps have been melting at an alarming rate.