I live in Iowa and I remember snow would always fall a few times before thanksgiving and by the time thanksgiving was here there was plenty of snow. For a good part of the winters snow would be more then a foot high and weather would be well below freezing.
But with in the past 5-8 years or so it seems like snow is just starting to fall less and less usually coming right before christmas. So far this year we have then maybe 1/2 inche of snow that lasted for about 24 hours and its been about 40-50 degrees out. So has anyone else around the country noticed a change in winter weather or maybe summer too that you could detail for us.
2006-12-19 05:11:55 · 9 answers · asked by kevins963 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
I live in Canada, (Ontario) and even here it's the same thing. For the past few years, we have had very mild Decembers. It's typical to have a Christmas without snow now. 5-10 years ago, we were able to tobbogan down a hill. Now, we can stil play golf...
2006-12-19 05:17:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is also the same in the UK. It is only this week that we have had any significant frosts, yet I can remember years - within the past 10 - when I've had to scrape my car windscreen in September. I was born in 1942 and really wasn't old enough to remember the very bad winter of 1947. I remember snow as a child, from time to time, but nothing significant until 1961 when it lingered from January to March. Then, after that I really don't remember any winters when snow has been that bad, although there have been days when there have been heavy falls that have laid for a week or so. My perception is, however, that there have been fewer and fewer snowy days over the past 5 or 6 years.
In response to Candy, it isn't that people deny that there is such a thing as global warming, althought the extent can be argued about. What they do dispute is the reason, bearing in mind that the world's weather have always fluctuated.
2006-12-19 13:51:38 · answer #2 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well that doesn't happen only in America, it's all over the Earth. In Romania, for example, are now the same temperatures that were usual for autumn or for a late summer. Thus here is winter we have no snow, no winds, no cold, all we have is some rains that usually are chilled. And this happens in all Europe.
One answer could be that these are the effects of pollution, but some scientists doubt is. Another is that the changes we feel now are being due to another era of quaternary, the superior quaternary. So are doomed the feel the changes our ancestors felt millions of years ago.
2006-12-19 13:32:52 · answer #3 · answered by lavinia c 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think the weather has changed all as much as everyone else believes. I have lived 58 years and I see little change. Just think about his for a moment. When you were small and it snowed, it looked as though there was so much because yoou were so small and if you remember even your house looked bigger. then when you grow up and get taller everyhing else seems smaller.I went back to my old house I grew up in and wow it was so much smaller than I had thought. Why is this. I am bigger. same goes for weather. now we are having an increase in storms but it is foretold his old happen.So I can't understand why someone has to get others to believe that we are heading for disasterous times. Weather wise that is. We should concern ourselves in helping others more instead of waisting time on the y'S of more or less snow.
2006-12-19 14:02:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let me guess, your trying to study global warming, well let me tell you something! Global warming is bull****, everyone is worried about the greenhouse effect when the earth is able to use that carbon dioxide just as fast as we produce it! It's called "a cycle". There would have to be like ten million more times the co2 we produce to create the greenhouse effect. Co2 helps plants, right, well, they give off the exact amount of oxygen.
Please don't get into this crap.
BTW the weather is changing because we are very slowly being pulled into the sun's atmosphere which will eventually destroy the world, but that won't happen for a looooooooong time. Don't worry about it. You can do what you want.
2006-12-19 15:42:55 · answer #5 · answered by bria. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It used to be real... Snow, cold, fun, work...Everything winter is supposed to be, something to look forward to in lieu of the seasonal changes, something to dread in lieu of the ice storms and slippery roads. It makes you feel alive...
Now... I live in purgatory... The Phallic symbol of the USA! The hanging off the edge of the State appendage... And It is HELL!
Yesterday... We went in the pool for pete's sake and that... Is just not right in December!
The south is no place for a Ny'er and If I see one more frigging palm tree decorated with Christmas lights... I am going to hurl!
2006-12-20 12:01:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know what you are saying....I live in Ohio and I remember blizzards when I was a kid and each year there is just less and less. Like today it is 50 degrees no snow....and christmas is 6 days away....really wierd!
2006-12-19 13:16:27 · answer #7 · answered by murderdolls30 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes ever since the increase in solar flare activity over the last 10 years I have noticed this.
2006-12-19 13:23:27 · answer #8 · answered by Questioner 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's what i saying i live in ohio too snd there arent really any winters. no one seems to care. i posted a question about global warming and everyone tells you to shut up. people will see when it is too late. then will all blame someone else...
2006-12-19 13:50:40 · answer #9 · answered by Candy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋