Where was the cold last winter?

If the same thing happens again next winter I'm calling it the new normal. Fingers crossed I am wrong. Florida is not far enough South anymore!

 

I remember it well. They taught it to us in high school. It seems that every generation has it's chicken littles.

 

Oldman, I remember those conversations from the grown-ups back in the 60's!
Another topic which it usually led into was that those damm russians were experimenting with weather bombs!

 

Yooperdave. my deceased Uncle used to rant and rave that it was all those rockets the Russians were putting into space that was causing global cooling..LOL.
Funny how every generation has it's fears whipped up by the media.

 

Unfortunately the GLOBAL issue goes way beyond weather, or even climate, in any limited region. It takes massive data input to supercomputers, concerning immense (global) land area, the atmosphere, and the oceans, to put together the picture. (Couple of degrees difference in ocean temps involves almost incomprehensible energy input, like with the Gulf of Mexico. Way beyond what happens with land & air.)

By the time some of us will be ready to take action, Florida will be a water park. Gotta look to the source of info. Scientists are much more credible than the Koch Bros or their tools. IMO. Rush? Really?

 

Got any really good cherry-picked and fully manipulated data for that ?

 

The way this one is heading, my prediction is it won't be around much longer.....
Kinda like a slow burning fuse. You just know that something is gonna spark it off!!

 

One thing that is definite here is a huge change in the wildlife. We have gone from mink, weasels, raccoons, fox, porcupines, groundhogs, beaver to no fox, no groundhogs, no raccoons. Now we have deer (and ticks), bears, fisher, wolves, coyote, turkeys, turkey buzzards. We've lost a lot of bird species. Frogs and toads were way down, toads are back bur frogs not so much. Although we had a tone of green frogs and grey tree frogs all over the yard last summer. It rained so much they thought they were in the lake. Didn't see a leopard frog until late August, few spring peepers, few wood frogs, no mink or pickerel. I also saw some turtles, first in many years on the land. That's another species we've lost: snapping turtles. And the black water snake. Huge change. Have lost indigo bunting, flicker, vireo, Baltimore oriole. I did see a scarlet tanager last year. Could go on, but you get the picture.

 

We hear whip-or-wills on rare occasions, but not like I heard them when I was a kid. Same with bob whites, don't remember the last time I heard one of those.

The spring peepers can get really loud around here though, especially down in the river bottoms.