Am I really in Duluth?

[Musk Ox]

We're getting pasted here in Utah - after a few drier years. Been like this since October. But it's always like this here. Even the week of rain in January. We're getting so much snow even the diehard skiers are starting to grumble a bit. We're just tired of shoveling it, and 6:30 this morning I was grumbling, too. But it isn't so much the shoveling as the finding a place to put it! It's turning into a problem. That and the two-foot ice-wall the snowplow leaves in front of my driveway every time it snow!

Climate breakdown is extremely worrying. We had record-breaking snowfall up here a few seasons ago after the warmest December on record. It isn't a good sign in any way whatsoever.

[TallGrass]

But it's always like this here. Even the week of rain in January.

Climate breakdown is extremely worrying. We had record-breaking snowfall up here a few seasons ago after the warmest December on record.

How many years are "on record"?

[Musk Ox]

But it's always like this here. Even the week of rain in January.

Climate breakdown is extremely worrying. We had record-breaking snowfall up here a few seasons ago after the warmest December on record.

How many years are "on record"?

Measured Svalbard ice cores go back a thousand years. The arctic is warming very fast, it has experienced unprecedented warming since 1900. Here are some facts.

https://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card

https://www.academia.edu/97180404/Thous ... _core_data

https://www.sciencealert.com/svalbard-h ... emperature (temperatures were 30°C (86°F on that day where we live).

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50971446

This year is on course to break all historical records where we live.

I don't argue about politics or climate on the internet, so I'm just going to post links to resources, ha ha!

[randoskier]

I hear the globe is warming, something to do with carbon dioxide and fossil fuels?

Thank Shell and Exxon, their scientists knew years ago about man-made climate change, and the fact it is accelerated by energy generation using fossil fuels, their management decided to cover it up instead of acting on it.

warmer wetter better (for Shell/Exxon share value anyway)

[mca80]

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.

[randoskier]

Is that a Bob Dylan song?

[TallGrass]

Climate breakdown is extremely worrying. We had record-breaking snowfall up here a few seasons ago after the warmest December on record.

How many years are "on record"?

Measured Svalbard ice cores go back a thousand years. The arctic is warming very fast, it has experienced unprecedented warming since 1900. Here are some facts.

https://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card

https://www.academia.edu/97180404/Thousand_years_of_
winter_surface_air_temperature_variations_in_Svalbard_and
_northern_Norway_reconstructed_from_ice_core_data

https://www.sciencealert.com/svalbard-home-of-the-
doomsday-vault-just-recorded-its-highest-ever-temperature
(temperatures were 30°C (86°F on that day where we live).

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50971446

This year is on course to break all historical records where we live.

I don't argue about politics or climate on the internet, so I'm just going to post links to resources, ha ha!

Last edited by Musk Ox on Tue Feb 28, 2023 8:39 am, edited 9 times in total.

"Svalbard, Home of The 'Doomsday' Vault, Just Recorded Its Highest Ever Temperature"

"the archipelago registered 21.2 degrees Celsius (70.2 Fahrenheit) in the afternoon, just under the 21.3 degrees Celsius recorded in 1979"

"the average temperatures for the archipelago between 2070 and 2100 will rise by 7-10 degrees Celsius"

[Musk Ox]

How many years are "on record"?

Measured Svalbard ice cores go back a thousand years. The arctic is warming very fast, it has experienced unprecedented warming since 1900. Here are some facts.

https://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card

https://www.academia.edu/97180404/Thousand_years_of_
winter_surface_air_temperature_variations_in_Svalbard_and
_northern_Norway_reconstructed_from_ice_core_data

https://www.sciencealert.com/svalbard-home-of-the-
doomsday-vault-just-recorded-its-highest-ever-temperature
(temperatures were 30°C (86°F on that day where we live).

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50971446

This year is on course to break all historical records where we live.

I don't argue about politics or climate on the internet, so I'm just going to post links to resources, ha ha!

Last edited by Musk Ox on Tue Feb 28, 2023 8:39 am, edited 9 times in total.

"Svalbard, Home of The 'Doomsday' Vault, Just Recorded Its Highest Ever Temperature"

"the archipelago registered 21.2 degrees Celsius (70.2 Fahrenheit) in the afternoon, just under the 21.3 degrees Celsius recorded in 1979"

"the average temperatures for the archipelago between 2070 and 2100 will rise by 7-10 degrees Celsius"

Yeah. It's really scary.

[FourthCoast]

[...]It seems like this thread is supposed to be about a weirdly warm winter in the upper great lakes.[...]

It is pretty well crap down here in lower Michigan. There was maybe one week with good snow. I had some fun at the XC area but it was way too short. I just saw something like 'major winter storm' coming in the news. Looking at the forecast I see one day with 1.3 inches of snow. Major storm?

[connyro]

[...]It seems like this thread is supposed to be about a weirdly warm winter in the upper great lakes.[...]

It is pretty well crap down here in lower Michigan. There was maybe one week with good snow. I had some fun at the XC area but it was way too short. I just saw something like 'major winter storm' coming in the news. Looking at the forecast I see one day with 1.3 inches of snow. Major storm?

imo, the best part about living and skiing in the UP is the consistent cold and snowy weather we get from early January through mid March. Usually it never warms above freezing during that period. This season has been a roller coaster of cold and snowy to warm and rainy, rinse, repeat. Even the deer herd that usually head south of here for the winter never left this year. They are in my orchard eating rotten apples and rooting through the compost pile and occasionally getting hit by cars. Not a big fan of the weather this season although we have it a lot better than downstate...