ok i live in minnesota.. or "minnesnowta".. where we get a bunch of snow every year. including the year of 1991 with our famous blizzard which happened halloween night.
right now, its raining. no snow. it hasnt rained for like, two weeks. and its flurried snow once this year. how can it be the end of december and we havent gotten an accumulating snowfall??
i know global warming and/or el nino has something to do with it. but is this happening to anyone else in your area?
2006-12-21 05:25:46 · 9 answers · asked by girl 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
Yes, it is. I've livedin Baltimore for the past 12 years, and this is the warmest December I remember during that time. I've also chekced places I used to live (northwest Ohio, Chicago, and my wife's home town of Cincinnati), and they all seem to be having warmer than usual weather so far.
Of course, "global warming" refers to the raising of the average temperature of the Earth as a whole, and doesn't necessarily mean that any one place will be warmer than usual at any given time. More extreme weather is generally believed to be the result of global climate change. So we might get warmer than average weather for a time, but also sometimes colder than average weather, more or stronger storms than average, or less precipitation than average, depending on where we are and the exact conditions.
2006-12-21 05:38:21 · answer #1 · answered by lehket 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have been listening to the meteorologists, you would have heard them say that the current weather patterns are part of a normal 30 to 40 year cycle. That is, the weather around the sixties. That includes the hurricane activitiy, the ocean currents, etc.
One meteorologist working out of the New York area, whose father was also one, was told by his father back then that he would see a repetition of what they had then in about 30 or 40 years. And, he commented that, indeed, his father was right. The even have a name for the cycle which I don't remember.
So, forget global warming as a prediction or cause of what is happening today. What is happening is perfectly normal but most people don't live long enough or pay enough attention to know that the variability is normal.
2006-12-21 13:49:35 · answer #2 · answered by acablue 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live in western Pennsylvania and, although it's not always so bitter as MN, we've had unseasonably mild weather so far. There've been a couple of flurries, but snow has only laid once. Last weekend, I went shopping outside in just a T-shirt!
2006-12-21 13:33:07 · answer #3 · answered by Bugmän 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
New York State is getting more rain than snow, and maybe our weather patterns might be a thing of the past, now returning to its origional state.
2006-12-21 13:31:43 · answer #4 · answered by duster 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, I live in Newfoundland Canada and we usually have alot of snow but only have a small amount and it's supose to rain latter this week
2006-12-21 13:47:23 · answer #5 · answered by Greeneyed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here in Vancouver (Canada) it is been weird too, lots of wind storms, early snow, record rains.
2006-12-21 13:34:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's December 21 and its warm outside my house! I am from Pennsylvania.
I am in my shorts and t-shirt with my window open!
What is going on?
2006-12-21 13:33:36 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No wierder than normal. Weather is just that way. Get used to it.
2006-12-21 13:56:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
its weird but thats c alifornia its hot as hell or as cold as can get
*well ya*
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2006-12-21 19:25:15 · answer #9 · answered by ballet_tigger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋