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Playing in the snow.
- Thread starter mattj
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I'm saying people who don't know how to drive in snow shouldn't drive in ANY inches of snow, let alone two. I'm from Buffalo, I drive with my knees in a whiteout blizzard while talking on my phone with one hand and drinking Tim Horton's coffee with the other.
Resident of central Texas here. Freezes are nothing new around here, and we seem to have a light dusting of snow about one in five years. For us it's hardly felt like winter, even by our standards (we had like one week of below 40°F weather). But anyway, I spent my spring break 2 weeks ago in Lake Tahoe, and all the snow and ice basically blew my mind! Yes, the snow was pretty and sparkly and covered everything, and I made a snowman for the first time in my life (my 21st birthday is in a month, mind you). I think I embarrassed everyone around me because I could not stop picking up and playing with the snow...heh. It was also was the first time in ~15 years I've been skiing, and was easily going down the intermediate slopes after a 2-hour lesson on my first day! But I digress. Point is that something as mundane as snow is crazy awesome when you aren't ever in contact with it.
Eh shouldn't be embarrassed, I still make snowmen whenever I get the chance too. They're fun, if not a tad annoying to make at times.
In Australia the last thing you will see is snow :(
Man i thought this was a hail rmt posted in the wrong forum
Snow here is fucked up... We had a week of pure sunshine and great temperature, then i wake up monday morning and everything's covered again ._.
Snow here is fucked up... We had a week of pure sunshine and great temperature, then i wake up monday morning and everything's covered again ._.
As there are posts in this thread containing the term "global warming", I can't help but respond.
I certainly agree with you in that I am tired of people pointing out an unusually cold or snowy winter (or technically spring, since we have passed the vernal equinox in the northern hemisphere) as evidence of there being no global warming, and your point here is definitely true. However, the correct way to respond to statements like these is that they are confusing "weather" and "climate". Weather describes what is happening in the atmosphere right now, whereas climate characterizes (averages) the weather over long timescales (typically 30 years or so). Therefore when looking at a raw time series of global temperature anomalies, it is not unreasonable to see dips between certain years due to the actual natural variations (ENSO, AO, etc) but still see an overall anthropogenic warming trend when looking at climatological timescales.
I should note that this goes both ways of course. A single particularly hot year like the last one does not prove that there is global warming by itself, and this is something I tell my friends all the time. It is the actual long term trend that is important, and the scientific consensus currently supports the existence of a warming trend in the data.
Or to be more concise, we are experiencing a fairly large negative Arctic Oscillation (AO) in that cooler polar and arctic air masses are penetrating further to the south. Of course this is an example of natural variability as I have already said above, and the trend in AO is very small compared to the warming trend we see in the temperature record, based on the current scientific literature.
Now as for the actual topic at hand, I got to experience all of this snow in more than one instance. Last Friday I was in Colorado for a grad school visit (if some of you have forgotten, I am involved in climate research) and had to deal with a 2 hour flight delay on the way back to home in central Illinois, only to later see that same system dump another foot of snow over here. Besides having to deal with travel delays, I enjoyed watching all the snow fall considering how little we got last winter.
Due to my inherent desire to address climate change misinformation on smogon, it might be better for me to start my own thread on the subject.
DM said:
I certainly agree with you in that I am tired of people pointing out an unusually cold or snowy winter (or technically spring, since we have passed the vernal equinox in the northern hemisphere) as evidence of there being no global warming, and your point here is definitely true. However, the correct way to respond to statements like these is that they are confusing "weather" and "climate". Weather describes what is happening in the atmosphere right now, whereas climate characterizes (averages) the weather over long timescales (typically 30 years or so). Therefore when looking at a raw time series of global temperature anomalies, it is not unreasonable to see dips between certain years due to the actual natural variations (ENSO, AO, etc) but still see an overall anthropogenic warming trend when looking at climatological timescales.
I should note that this goes both ways of course. A single particularly hot year like the last one does not prove that there is global warming by itself, and this is something I tell my friends all the time. It is the actual long term trend that is important, and the scientific consensus currently supports the existence of a warming trend in the data.
mien said:
Or to be more concise, we are experiencing a fairly large negative Arctic Oscillation (AO) in that cooler polar and arctic air masses are penetrating further to the south. Of course this is an example of natural variability as I have already said above, and the trend in AO is very small compared to the warming trend we see in the temperature record, based on the current scientific literature.
Now as for the actual topic at hand, I got to experience all of this snow in more than one instance. Last Friday I was in Colorado for a grad school visit (if some of you have forgotten, I am involved in climate research) and had to deal with a 2 hour flight delay on the way back to home in central Illinois, only to later see that same system dump another foot of snow over here. Besides having to deal with travel delays, I enjoyed watching all the snow fall considering how little we got last winter.
Due to my inherent desire to address climate change misinformation on smogon, it might be better for me to start my own thread on the subject.
I am so, incredibly happy to see all this precipitation! The rivers and lakes seriously need it. There are a few species in our area that only spawn during a heavy spring rise, which we're actually having at the moment. It really bothered me to see the rivers and lakes at less than half of what they have been for the past 10-20 years.
I HATE snow, well cold weather to be more accurate.
I live in the mountains of SW Virginia, so we usually get snow multiple times. It doesn't get bad until it starts sticking to the road, it can just be 3 inches and it would be an adventure trying to drive in it.
I also lost count of how many times I've bust my butt trying walk in the stuff. >_>
I live in the mountains of SW Virginia, so we usually get snow multiple times. It doesn't get bad until it starts sticking to the road, it can just be 3 inches and it would be an adventure trying to drive in it.
I also lost count of how many times I've bust my butt trying walk in the stuff. >_>
Our Easter here is going to be about 5 degrees Celsius colder than our Christmas. :(