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Sun 13 Jul, 2008 07:14 pm
By mid Atlantic I mean along the area which I95 runs through for about fifty miles one way or other, from about NC to about the lower third of Connecticut.
You need about 70 - 80 years to get a real long-term view on weather and I'm not quite old enough.
The question is, does anybody remember any summers in the 1940s or early to mid 50s which were as cool as this one has been so far??
We seem to have had about a dozen hot days so far this year at most, and even on those days it's taking five hours to get hot and it doesn't stay hot at night and so far we haven't had any of what I call hundred-hundred weather, hundred degrees and hundred percent humidity.
This crapola doesn't belong in the history forum. You're just trolling for some anecdotal evidence to support another one of your witless "there ain't no global warming" rants. Global climactic conditions can not reasonably be associated directly with local conditions. For example, this summer has been extraordinarily hot in southern Canada, and southern Canada had one of the warmest winters on record.
Re: Weather: Any 70 - 85 year-olds living in mid Atlantic?
gungasnake wrote:You need about 70 - 80 years to get a real long-term view on weather
add a dozen or so thousand years and you might be getting toward a real mid-term view on weather
I checked for any sort of a weather sub-forum, and there wasn't one; history struck me as adequate since the description included the term 'natural history'.
Weather is usually studied in the sciences departments of universities.
The
Old Farmers Almanac keeps a cpmprehensive place by place
Weather Historysite that goes back to 1946. I'm sure you could glean the this site if you're willing to put in the effort.
Rap
Thanks, RapRap. I may look up that site too.
I remember my childhood winters in Chicago as often blanketed with deep snow in our yard. Doesn't seem to snow to such a depth in such a continuous way now. But of course I was only 9-13 and wasn't keeping a snow calendar. I'd enjoy looking up temp/snow level variations between those years and now. In fact I tried that once, but didn't get very far.
Not that that would prove anything, just for my own interest. Maybe I really fixated on those 30" deep snow times.
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