You’ve probably heard it as I have.
“If this is Global Warming, bring it on!!”
Right. Still, I think below the bluster there may be some tiny voices of forboding.
Paul Douglas in the Minneapolis Star-Trib:
* 67 F. new record high for March 13 in the Twin Cities, recorded at 3:34 pm at MSP International Airport.
66 F. old record for KMSP Tuesday (2007). Source: NOAA.
3-5 more record highs in the next week? May-like warmth lingers through the middle of next week.
40 F. average high for March 13.
30 F. high temperature a year ago; March 13, 2011.
64 F. today’s old record, set in 2010. We should break that by noon or 1 pm at the latest.
80 F. high predicted for Saturday, smashing the old record of 76 F in 1894.
A Good Summer To Be In Propeller Repair? I wandered down on the shoreline of Lake Minnetonka yesterday and was shocked by how low water levels have fallen. Just a WAG: water levels are down anywhere from 2-3 feet from last fall. Not good. What makes me think it’s going to be a long, hot (dry) summer?
Paul adds in an email:
2600 records in just the last week from coast to coast, over 1,000 high temperature records, over 600 records for warm nighttime lows. I’ve never seen anything like this, certainly not in mid-March.
Right. Weather is not climate. But when you’re seeing weather that no one has ever seen before – that just could be climate change.
I am a bit dense, especially at this time of night. (I’m sitting right on the Greenwich Meridian) But I don’t really understand the photo annotations on those images of Lake Minnetonka. Are they the same spot? Sorry, I know I’ll feel stupid in a momnet when it becomes clear.
I have twigged. My apologies. I assumed that because the images were side by side that they were taken at different times, I was comparing the two images looking for differences. D’oh. Two images of different spots on the Lake at the same time. I’m off to bed, clearly the sensible part of my brain is already there.
Did I really see cherry blossom in yesterday’s TV news coverage of UK Prime Minister Cameron at the White House?
Weird winter and a weird March in the Pittsburgh neck of the woods. I hear the bark beetles will be out in force in large portions of the Canadian wilderness, too. Mild all around. I can only imagine what type of weather patterns North America will have when we have ice-free minimums in the Arctic Ocean.
And don’t forget, this is a La Nina year.
all the more stunning.