Holy Crap Wild Weather

Whoa.

Just checked our weather... similar idea but not as extreme. Supposed to be a high of 50 today, and a high of 24 tomorrow (low of 14).

Wind advisory in effect from 7 PM tonight until 9 AM tomorrow.

Yesterday we approached 75 with 45 mph wind gusts, today the high is to be 32. Buckle up.

The real problem with climate change is not just that it is getting warmer, but rather it is getting unpredictable. Try to grow food when you are never sure when your frost dates will hit. After thousands of years of growing food based on steady climate zones, the party is over. My area was just changed from a zone 5 to a 6.

The weather has been weird since the beginning of weather.

Your zone was more than likely changed due to more accurate meterological information, provided by modern science like satellites and weather stations.

This is more punishment from god over homosexuals. It started with 9/11 and it will never end until we eradicate this virus from our world. Where is Torquemada when you need him?

We've had four melts so far this winter, the snowiest one in 105 years. Yesterday it rained all afternoon, the small streams are at flood level, the rivers will be by tomorrow, when it will blizzard.

Wrong (as usual}.

OK, then tell us (about) where you are, and how "global warming", which hasn't managed to change the average temperature more that a fraction of a degree, has changed your zone?

Somehow I can't help but think of the lie being fed to the media by growers and how they can now raise plants further north than ever before. They don't mention the facts that modern breeding and DNA modification produces plants that can stand colder temps, herbicides, etc., and the improvements in greenhouse and cold frame technology. It certainly makes them more money when some poor chump in southern Ohio plants a $10,000 coconut palm that dies two years later in an extended freeze.

I'm not so sure recent unpredictable weather of the last couple of years is solely the cause of global warming. I think a lot of it has to do with the slight wobble of the earth caused by the massive Indonesian earthquake a couple years ago. That wobble was enough to slightly disrupt the usual wind patterns of the jet streams. The unpredictability is from the wobble and will ease off a bit as the earth finds its center again.

I have no links or scientific info to back it up, it is just my own personal reasoning and analysis of the recent weather patterns.

It seems an easy hypothesis to demonstrate. Take a tennis ball, mark a dozen spots on in for tracking purposes. Shave down the fuzz on some of those spots and yank the fuzz out higher in other spots to simulate the geology of the earth's surface. Hang the ball by a thread then light an incense stick and lightly blow the stream of smoke over the tennis ball with a fan. Keep the ball in place and make note of the smoke patterns as they flow over the ball. Then, wobble the ball slightly and notice the differences in the stream of smoke flowing over the ball.