Mother nature's gone choo-choo

[Chickenman]

I'm thinking that mother nature is bi-polar, and she's off her meds. This weather is crazy. -4 one day, 32 the next, followed by 40 degrees and back to 20. Throw in 8 to 16 inches of snow overnight, then pouring rain, followed by more snow. UUUUgggg. Be done with this already. What's wrong with simple below freezing at night like 28 degrees and above freezing during the day like 36 degrees for 4 to 6 weeks.

[ecolbeck]

Classic symptoms of climate change. A warmer atmosphere has more energy to move air and moisture around.

[Chickenman]

I really think she hopped on the crazy train and now she's driving and it ain't stopping.

[wnybassman]

What's wrong with simple below freezing at night like 28 degrees and above freezing during the day like 36 degrees for 4 to 6 weeks.

Well, it is January. I am hoping that 4 to 6 weeks you are looking for starts the end of February............like it should. lol

[fred]

it only January , lets not rush it.

[DaveB]

Classic symptoms of climate change. A warmer atmosphere has more energy to move air and moisture around.

Not really. It's just the pattern that we're in. We had weather like this for most of the 80s believe it or not.

Parts of northern New England are having record snows and haven't seen nearly the fluctuations that places south of there have seen. The problem is the lack of high pressure or blocking in Quebec. The storms are coming at a typical pace and we are seasonable between systems but when the system approaches, it cuts west and so places get flow from the south so it warms it. The system passes and we return to "normal". We've been rinsing and repeating all winter, save for a few systems. Climate change wouldn't be represented by a pattern like that.

[littleTapper]

We've got a 69 degree swing in the forecast...

19290

[DaveB]

We've got a 69 degree swing in the forecast...

19290

You guys are getting cold on another level. I was looking at some of the forecasts and you don't often see highs in the minus teens for days and lows -40 to -50. With the windchill in the -60s, you might start seeing some trees explode.

[MN Jake]

Threres no doubt there will be some frost cracking

[ecolbeck]

Not really. It's just the pattern that we're in. We had weather like this for most of the 80s believe it or not.

Parts of northern New England are having record snows and haven't seen nearly the fluctuations that places south of there have seen. The problem is the lack of high pressure or blocking in Quebec. The storms are coming at a typical pace and we are seasonable between systems but when the system approaches, it cuts west and so places get flow from the south so it warms it. The system passes and we return to "normal". We've been rinsing and repeating all winter, save for a few systems. Climate change wouldn't be represented by a pattern like that.

Perhaps you are right and I have made the error of confusing weather with climate. However, it is believed by the scientific community that more weather extremes (both warm/cold and wet/dry) are features of climate change. We can’t attribute any particular weather event to climate change but we do know that certain types of events may occur more frequently and with more intensity. That could easily mean record snow for some areas, more rain in winter for others areas, and lots of times and places were things seem “normal”.

[saphead]

Speaking of "choo-choo", just finished reading "The Coming of the Train" about logging and trains in the Deerfield valley of W Ma. and Southern Vt. 100+ years ago and I thought I read something about past weather in New England. Just found the page.
Reprinted in the Deerfield Valley Times 1/24/1890 from the Taunton,Mass. Gazette;Mild Winters in the Past;
1838-39: very mild winter,only 3-4 cold days,no sleighing
1849-50: robins remained all winter
1857-58:very mild dandelion in bloom 12/24
1869-70: 12/8 trees bud,grass is green,1/10 farmers plowed in Mass. ,1/28 pansies picked, 3/1 radishes sold
1875-76: Temp.76 on 1/1,2/8 trees bud
1877-78 12/28 trees budded,1/16 ground unfrozen,bluebirds & robins singing,grass green,12/31 rosebush in New Bedfoed in full bloom,1/12 quart of strawberries picked in New London Ct.
1879-80 1/5 grasshoppers seen in New Haven,1/16 bluebirds and robins seen in Maine,1/26 farmers plowing in Rhode Island

I don't get too worked up about the "Gloal Warming" then the new rage "Climate Change" narrative they are trying to shove down our throats...they just want to tax us more and play with our emotions. Farming records in Europe go back hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years and there has always been wacky seasons. But back then they weren't doing Geoengineering and Solar Radiation Management (SRM) like they are now,that's the white elephant in the room that nobody,except a few brave people,want to talk about. Today a beautiful sunrise and then I watched them spray for hours on end and now the sun is barely shining through! That's what's really going on!

[mainebackswoodssyrup]

It’s climate change alright. Been happening since the end of the ice age, not much end in sight. Wait a minute....I guess the end of the ice age was climate change too. See a trend. Oh ya...drive a Prius and it will help.

[Louie]

From John Coleman, the guy that founded the Weather channel. How the Global Warming Scare Began.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyUDGfCNC-k&feature=youtu.be