Halloween is just over and it is as though father winter knew this as well. Woke up this morning with a very heavy frost on the ground. I was reading a blog today and she was saying how she experienced her first snowfall just recently. The area in which she mentions is notorious for extreme weather conditions and sudden weather changes. It is a well travelled route for people travelling from the interior of the BC to the mainland and a major trucking route. It is very beautiful, I have gone through that route and the snow piles from the ploughs has been over 20 feet high, it's like going through a tunnel.I was listening to the weather man this evening and he was saying we are in for some wet weather. Which is the norm for us this time of year. However, he went on to say how our rainfall was far below average all over the island for Ocotober. Tofino, which is surrounded by a rainforest was under it's average rainfall by almost 200cm(1 cm= 2.54 inches) so that is a lot of rain. Where I live our rainfall was down by about 75 cms. It has been really dry, and sunny. We have been spoilt, but we do need the rainfall.
That gets me thinking...is this part of the global warming they are talking about. All this climate change? I have noticed the changes in our weather ever since I was little. I remember school being cancelled because of the snow or the flooding from all the rain. We don't seem to get much of that anymore. We still experience all the seasons, but summers seemed to be hotter, fall is warmer and lasting longer....and when winter comes it comes with vengence. Doug tells me that in 1996 they got 54 inches of snow in three days. Now that is a lot of snow!!! Have any of you notice this at all where you live? The climate change. What's going on in your backyard? Or should I say neck of the woods?
8 comments:
I have a hard time grasping the concept of global warming.
The weather has had cycles/patterns for eons.
And we've only been keeping records for just over 100 years.
I can look back at records and things have been much hotter, colder, wetter, or drier than what we currently have been experiencing the last several years.
I hope you get the rain. We're still dry here too and are in desperate need of rain...
However, we're not anywhere near a "dust bowl" situation.
If you know what I mean.
later...
We're supposed to get a couple inches of that white stuff on Thursday according to the weatherman, but he's usually wrong anyway. I think it may not be all attributed to global warming...they had the same kind of weather in the United States a century ago as we have had this year.....hmmmm, wonder if they called in global warming back then too! ;)
I think it's Mother Nature with a little global warming thrown in.
he is 2 weeks old
-kaylee
I don't know if I buy into the "global warming" thing. Not to dispell the experts, but we did have and ice age many eons ago and that has been melting off for centuries. But, yes, I have noticed that it seems we don't get as much snow here now as we used to get. We're in Michigan( southeast). I do know that my wife used to live on the other side of the state near the lake and they got tons of snow there and over here would just get s few flurries.
hey mike, that's what i was gonna say, the ice age. i don't buy into the global warming thingy either, i think it is mother nature's natural cycles. all women have cycles, ya know?? bee
I know that we had a wetter spring and a hotter summer than any in my memory.
I think the weather just cycles. We're getting a nice rain shower here today..
Why thank you all for you comments...very interesting. Seems like most of you are of the belief that what the experts are trying to tell us is a bunch of bunk. Hmmmmm...interesting....millions of dollars being spent and spreading fear mongering and bunk....oh sounds so "politically" familar.
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