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?

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[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

And the planet is warming up?

Well, yes. It's the harshest winter for 18 years, which means we've had nearly 20 years of warm winters. If you go back to the 60s, winters were much colder and we could guarantee snow every winter. (At least as far as I recall.) Besides, it's certainly warming up in Australia. If only we had some kind of heat exchange system between the northern and southern hemispheres!

Global warming is actually terribly complicated, but one effect is that climate becomes more extreme. The type of storm that used to strike once every 50 years will now appear once every 7-10 years. There's just more energy in the weather system, and as it's a chaotic system that doesn't follow simple rules, everything is going to get harder to predict.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

We've had the coldest Autumn and Winter in decades down here in southern Spain. Today it feels a bit warmer and right now it's 61ºF/16ºC. Acceptable but not as warm as it should be.

I'm glad the Blue Meanie missed you this time around.

[glitzfrau.livejournal.com]

I think this is the meanest winter ever. Divil the snow have we had in Manc, while it's been blowing a blizzard in Dublin and London is one great snowball fight! Where's my snow day off work, eh?

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

I'm exiled to a London hotel overnight as the chances of getting out of the Chilterns tomorrow morning for my business meeting are close to zip. We are expecting 20cm.

But I suppose I might be on my own for the entire meeting if nobody else makes it!

[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.

[le-oef.livejournal.com]

the idea of man made climate change is a fraud. just another power/money thing for the elite. a new GLOBAL enemy that calls for laws, fines, punishments ETC.

[silent-mouse.livejournal.com]

Well, we here had an awful drought so far - we are now at third of the usual amount of the rain that was supposed to happen until now, so it seems that this summer a full ban on irrigation is likely. (And that means no grass in gardens and parks at all, among other things.) So I believe in climate changes, they are just more complicated than warming - it's more extreme weather that previously.
And I will trade any amount of today's 24 degrees (the average for February is 12, btw) for snow or rain. Will give excellent exchange rate!