Are you experiencing odd weather phenomenon?

Question

We are all talking about global warming and it's affects, so lets hear about your area.
My Cashmere Goats didn't start to shed until June, usually it happens in Feb.- pacific northwest

Answer 1

If recent weeks are anything to go by then yes, we've just had the wettest June on record here. Last week I was in a part of the country that has one of the highest levels of rainfall and it was bone dry. Seems the rain has got confused and is falling in the wrong places.

However, as has been said, it's important not to confuse weather (short term and local) with climate (long term and national / global). If these conditions persisted for months or years then it would be fair to say something unusual is going on but a few weeks is too short a time to read anything into it.

On a longer scale the thing that I have noticed more than anything is the lack of a winter season. In my childhood heavy snowfalls were a regular occurence during the winter months, I remember my parents and grandparents telling me about the horrendous winters in the 1930's to 1960's. We haven't had anything like that for a long time which is a shame for me as I love the snow. Instead all we get now is rain during the winter months and you can't go sliding or skiing on the rain or throw it at people or make snowmen out of it.

Answer 2

I know I am, oddly enough, with all this global warming-the weather here in Georgia has not seemed to change any with in the last 20 years (or more, I'm only 27 and can't remember exactly what summer was like at 7, except hot).

It is odd that I'm not experiencing a difference, I thought for sure that half a degree rise in temp would have an impact.

Answer 3

A heat burst. This is a rare event that occurs in association with decaying thunderstorms. In short, it is caused by rapidly sinking air that warms quickly as it reaches the ground. The result can be a freakish rise in temperature, often during the night. Temperature can rise 10-20F or more in just a few minutes, often exceeding 100F. In two extreme reported cases, one in Texas and on in Portugal, temperatures supposedly rose 30+ degrees to over 130F in a matter of minutes. If these reports are true, they would actually exceed the hottest official temperature ever recorded on the surface of the earth, which was 136F.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Yea, here in my part of paradise we havent had rain, and its been unusually hot. NOAA website said that this hasnt happened in the last 11 months. Strange enough though, the 12 months before that showed the same thing. But then again, NOAA calls it July, or some such thing.

Answer 6

yes,we have had almost a whole month of 100 degrees and higher (115,eew) and we've been breaking records just about every day.
The heat has also made wild animals come into our fields and kill goats and sheep, which (according to Idaho fish and game) is not usual at all.

Answer 7

well, it july in st. louis, it usually never gets below 90 during the day...its going to be in the low 80's the next week...so much for global warming...are you sure you don't want to call it global cooling? oh!!! that's right, you call it climate change now, your covered either way,...brilliant. it's a cool 73 right now...and why do you want to do somthing about this again? and what happened to all those hurricanes that we were supposed to get? not a one. not even any tropical depressions...swing and a miss..oh, look!! i get a thumbs down for reporting cool temps!!! i bet that just eats you up inside that it's nice and cool here in st. louis...DOESN"T IT????

Answer 8

We do have some of those luminescent clouds those days!
Those are pretty freaky to say the least!! We know we trow CO2 but what in the hell is making cloud bright up at night?!?!?

Answer 9

seriously yeah! It's getting a little monsoony! in north east england in july

Answer 10

not much rain here in florida

very uncommon for the WET season also they say it will feel like 108 tomorrow also uncommon