why is it snowing here in september?

Question

what happened to global warming snowing outside cold enough for the furnace to start running. before global warming we wouldnt get this kind of stuff until late october early november WHATS HAPPENING

Answer 1

Where r u? Can you send some of the snow and cold weather to southeast Texas? It is hot and very humid here and I am tired of it.

Answer 2

Why don't you check the weather patterns of your area over the last 100 years, you know that nature isn't constant, sometimes winter comes early, sometimes it comes late. Don't blame global warming for everything that happens locally. Besides, all this talk about global warming, when no matter what people in the U.S.A. do, if others countries don't practice the same principles, then we're just spitting in the wind. It will take complete co-operation of the entire worlds population to make an effect on pollution. Let me also say, that if you study history, you'll find that there are decades of severe heat, and decades of severe cold that have already taken place.

Answer 3

See you just don't know the difference between "climate" and "weather".

If it's cold outside that weather.
The climate is always warmer.

If it can be measured, that's weather
Climate is something that takes place in the future and can't be measured now.

Weather can be forecasted with some accuracy over the next 10 days.
Climate can be accurately predicted 100 years from now as long as you have a degree in climatology. No one else is smart enough to read the signs.

I hope I made the difference between weather and climate clear for you.

Answer 4

What you're experiencing is best described as 'weather', global warming is 'climate'. There are important distinctions between the two.

Weather is primarily local and short lived so whilst it's snowing where you are there are other places where it will be raining, thundering, blowing a gale, a heatwave etc.

Climate on the other hand, is based on long term trends over a wider area. It is, if you like, the weather conditions averaged out over a period of several years (usually 30).

Climate change is slow and progressive, the type of changes observed from one year to the next are very small. It's over longer periods of time that a cumulative effect becomes evident. For this reason there will continue to be weather anomalies such as early snow, cold spells, late snow, floods etc.

There are some parts of the planet that have cooled as a result of climate change but such places are few and far between and mostly confined to islands in the Pacific.

Answer 5

I am not sure where you live, but last year there was an El-Nino event that caused the first half of the winter to be mild. This year a La-Nina has been forming for some number of months, there is a good chance that this winter should be somewhat normal if not colder than normal.

Answer 6

Sounds like you are around Chicago.
Global warming may have something to do with it but I think if you look back at past weather patterns it's more likely to do with weather cycles.

Answer 7

snow in september is MORE proof that global warming has started.

of course we know weather are 2 different things. but why isn't the climate changing the weather as predicted by the "experts"?

Answer 8

Think yourself lucky a few million years ago you would have been standing on a glacier
and a few million years before that you would have been standing up to your knees in flowing magma

Who got the blame for that?

Answer 9

Ask Mr. Gore

Answer 10

Is it really snowing there? Wow!