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We've had occasional flurries, but they all disappeared within a day or two. An ice storm early this week left about two inches of ice, some of which is still here despite the last three days of 45-55F degree weather (in January, in Maine, which officially qualifies as "ain't right".) Average high temperature for January is 28F, low is 8F.
Starting to get kind of worried about not having any snowpack to melt this summer, too... |
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Originally posted by Aro
Actually... Both. Global warming has no significant effect on any single year's temperature, or even any five or ten year period ... global warming might make EVERY winter warmer, by a fraction of a degree per year, and might be blamed for winter not being like 1942's winter, as noted above; but people saying 'this winter is way warmer than the one I remember three years ago' in no way can blame global warming, as none of us are sensitive enough to tell a tenth of a degree's temperature. Thus any complaint about a warm winter this year is solely attributable to weather patterns, ie El Niño or similar. |
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Originally posted by snoopy369
Global warming has no significant effect on any single year's temperature, or even any five or ten year period ... global warming might make EVERY winter warmer, by a fraction of a degree per year, and might be blamed for winter not being like 1942's winter, as noted above; but people saying 'this winter is way warmer than the one I remember three years ago' in no way can blame global warming, as none of us are sensitive enough to tell a tenth of a degree's temperature. Thus any complaint about a warm winter this year is solely attributable to weather patterns, ie El Niño or similar. I think you're confusing statistics with reality. The fraction of a degree that climate change is supposed to effect is determined by an averaging of temperatures over a large area for a period of time, meaning that it isn't litterally changing the temperature at a steady pace of 0.2 degrees over the span of a year, or whatever - there can be unusually hot days and unusually cold days as a result of it that wouldn't neccisarily be obvious looking at the statistics of average temperatures. Also, weather patterns such as El Niño would not be uneffected by climate change. |
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Oh and you Europe folks shouldn't worry about getting too WARM. I saw a piece on global warming that indicated that glacial melting in Iceland is predicted to disrupt the Gulf Stream that brings warm waters off western Europe. Instead, cooler waters would remain and Europe would on average be much colder than it is now due to the influence of the much colder water offshore
These were pretty long range predictions and somewhat uncertain but the prognosis longterm was a COLDER Europe. |
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