[FORUM] What's your weather been like?
Feb. 11th, 2012 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldThe 11th of February is a day embedded in the middle of the Canadian winter. Want illustration of this fact? The below image, snapped from the window of the 29 Dufferin bus southbound this morning, shows Wallace Emerson Park on Dufferin Street just south of Dupont was covered in snow.
Bizarrely, this has been a very atypical scene this winter. It has been very unreasonably warm, and this Thursday past, the unreasonably warm weather warmed still further to become almost spring-like. This patch of snow on the grounds of the Bathurst Street Theatre (736 Bathurst Street, one block south of Bloor on Lennox) was the only snow I'd seen all day.
All this puts me in mind of James Bow's observations about winter so far.
Have we broken the planet, as Bow suggests? I wonder. The combination of unseasonable warmth in North American winter and unusual cold in Europe's winter is suspicious. Were I to theorize wildly, I'd wonder if anything was happening to the ocean currents that moderate winter climates on the two shores of the North Atlantic. (Did I just?)
What say you?
Bizarrely, this has been a very atypical scene this winter. It has been very unreasonably warm, and this Thursday past, the unreasonably warm weather warmed still further to become almost spring-like. This patch of snow on the grounds of the Bathurst Street Theatre (736 Bathurst Street, one block south of Bloor on Lennox) was the only snow I'd seen all day.
All this puts me in mind of James Bow's observations about winter so far.
Where did winter go? A lot of people have noted that this one has been odder than most. Dave Phillips of Environment Canada has noted that we’ve had milder winters, but they’ve all dumped us with a lot more snow. We’ve had less snowy winters, but they’ve all been substantially colder. It’s as if November shouldered aside December and January and wore out its welcome for the past ninety days.
[. . .]
Typically at this time of year, after the groundhog has seen his shadow (or not), I start calling these days “late winter”. The later in February we go and on into March, each major snowfall is another example (to me) of winter wearing out its welcome. “When will spring come!” I cry. I know from experience that the weather will get cold between now and the vernal equinox. It will snow and I will hate it. But that reaction seems less rational than ever given that winter basically hasn’t arrived to begin with, much less worn out its welcome
Have we broken the planet, as Bow suggests? I wonder. The combination of unseasonable warmth in North American winter and unusual cold in Europe's winter is suspicious. Were I to theorize wildly, I'd wonder if anything was happening to the ocean currents that moderate winter climates on the two shores of the North Atlantic. (Did I just?)
What say you?
