Large Scale Central

Global warming

General Discussion
#1

Well I think the warmer temps. in Northwest Ohio are great I spent the afternoon raking up the train yard and it was 60 for the 11th of March. I thinl we only had 8 weeks of bad weather for this winter…

#2

Here it depends on how you define “bad weather”. I prefer to call it climate change rather than global warming. While yes, the temps have moderated it’s also brought us more liquid sunshine, less of the real sunshine and it seems to blow a whole lot more than it used to. I would say that in the last 6 months we’ve had a weeks worth of acceptable days…:frowning: Other than that it’s been either snowing, raining, too cold or the wind blowing like crazy.

#3

Warren,

You could have kept that Spokane weather South of the Border for just one more day! :frowning: :frowning:

For day two of our sprint championships it was strictly “Duck Weather”! But with the rain coming down, the course was really fast! There were a few wipe-outs - you can only shave a “best line” that close before you’re in for surprises. :wink: :slight_smile:

#4

Really so glad you are getting that rain…:smiley: :smiley: It’s been cloudy as all get out and the last couple days it would threaten with dark clouds but nothing significant happened. I guess they dumped on you first…:lol:

#5

Sorry folks 77 today, but had to work.

#6

Bloody hell! The wind is Force 7. Anything that is not tied down is airborne!

#7

Well we’ve had the driest winter on record here, only 2 1/2" when we should have around 12" by now.

Aside from the big freeze in January, its also been warmer each month on average than ever.

Is GW is here? Well its freaking March and its in the 80’s here, I’m absolutely dreading this summer, the 110 degree heat July last summer was bad enough, and we dont want another summer like that again.

#8
Victor Smith said:
I'm absolutely dreading this summer, the 110 degree heat July last summer was bad enough, and we dont want another summer like that again.
Well, I'd offer you a share of our summer: only gets up into the high 90s here. But you'd have to take half of our winter, too: -30s and Arctic breezes. They're forecasting snow again for the end of the week. :)
#9

But, Chris…you neglected to mention that it is about +51F (11C) here in Ottawa today, and there are rumours of Bikinis being in style on the Spark Street Mall…for today at least !!!

#10

Ahhhh, Spring! When young men’s fancy turns to the lovelies, and we old fharhts try to remember… :lol:

Vic, are they talking about another El Nino? Is General Santa Ana rampaging?

#11
Steve Featherkile said:
Ahhhh, Spring! When young men's fancy turns to the lovelies, and we old fharhts try to remember.... :lol:

Vic, are they talking about another El Nino? Is General Santa Ana rampaging?


Steve they said we had a mild El Nino last year, but now we’re in for a La Nina for the concivable future, the opposite, dry drought and very warm, I dont mind dry heat, but we havent had a dry summer since the 90’s, we’ve been getting midwestern summers hot and very muggy. but we’ve had a Santa Ana wind condition several times this winter, very unseasonable.

One thing for sure, this is going to a very very bad fire season for us.

#12

It’ll probably be the same up here. The place will turn into a tender box. Just hope we don’t get winds when the fires erupt. We did about a dozen years ago and it almost burned up the whole area.