A Real Blue Meanie

[poliphilo]

We watched the weather forecast. A great, amorphous, blue bulge of severe stuff- a real blue meanie-  was burgeoning up from the South West. It swelled as far as Brummagem- where it was met by winds from Scandanavia- a hail of chunky, little arrows- which bounced against it and started pushing it back . Phew!  We northerners will be spared the worst. Nevertheless it snowed again last night.

They say this is the harshest winter for 18 years. 

And the planet is warming up?

Comments

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

Just for the record -- back in the fifties there were many Christmases without a trace of snow, or even good skating ice. I remember receiving skates, skis, sleds, that sat unused until February some years. I remember scorching hot summers when we would head for the swimming hole (without permission!) to cool off for the afternoon.
However, in the 1990's I remember summers that were unseasonably cool so many days that I had to bring a wool blazer with me wherever I went. My daughter who was living in San Francisco at the time told me that I was having San Francisco summers (mild and wet).
I dont know about global warming, but I do know about climate change, just from my own observations.
This year seems more like the weather of the 1940's and later on, the 1970's -- hot summer,with a cold ice-and- snowy winter.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The climate is changing. I guess it's in perpetual flux. The big question is whether human activity is affecting it or not. I'm inclined to think not, but the other party is in the ascendant right now.