What the Hell is Going on with the Weather?

Its a big earth guys .. the universe is crazy.

The earth is aging and going through a cycle ..

Global warming is a $ scheme and fear tactics..

I live in Las Vegas, NV and it was snowing for 8 hours last week. I mean the whole valley was covered in snow. That has happened before, but only a few times in the last hundred years. Do you think global warming has anything to do with it? or maybe something else

I'm in Missouri, and we just had storms come through here worse than some of the spring storms we have. 70 mile an hour winds, tree damage, and tornado watch. Temps in the 60's. I have to look at the calender to make sure it's really DECEMBER!

Last year at this time, we had such bad ice storms, that we lost power. That, I could see, but not tornadoes and spring-like storms. Is mother earth going through menopause???

Welcome to Earth! weather patterns have been changing for billions of years and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

In NW In it is 61 deg which is all time record. Windy again. So we had some snow then and ice storm producing 1/2" - 1" of ice on everthing, rain, thunder now record heat.

reply to post by Realtruth

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There have been quite a few times where temperatures managed to jump 40-60 degrees within a day.
Certainly nothing strange or sinister about it. In fact its happened before. In fact the biggest temperature plunge in Chicago was back in 1911 :





blogs.trb.com...

yes it totally possible for temps to very so widely and in much shorter time frames. Thats the wonder of nature and weather.

The weather in vancouver BC has been totally abnormal. Every so often we get snow but never like this. The last major dump of snow was well over 10 years ago.

Allergies yes they have increased, but it's a good idea to have a window open as often as you can to circulate the air. Many people here have had issues with a nasty sinus flu/infection going around. Compounds the very normal problem of stale air and allergens.

The Norhtern Pacific areas are having very a-typical weather, but it has happened before so it's likely a "normal" pattern of air currents, global temperatures etc combined with ozone depletion and lack of sun spots.

All survivable and not so abnormal as to start panicking (yet) LOL.

All I can say is is that the snow is a WELCOMED change from the usual deluge of rain we get here this time of year. I'd take snow over rain any day!

It does cause issue here though as we so rarely get massive snow, the city of vancouver doesn't even own it's own snow removal equipment LMAO we borrow from other cities - plows, sanding and salting trucks all come from outer lying areas of GVRD. Kinda poignant when we get this kind of weather.

Now we're getting back to normal rain and warmer temps and with the warmth the allergies are coming back ten fold - moisture=mould and in vancouver we have tons of mould everywhere.

Was sort of funny watching the city come to a standstill over the first foot of snow...weird.

there was recently information from nasa that the ionosfeer was on much lower level to surface earth than normal... that can explain the extreem cold weather...

www.spacedaily.com...

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Your weather is erratic because the solar system is getting hotter. An ice age is due.

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The changes may be part of a cycle, however, climate changes are taking place, they do exist. No one really understands it all, and what they mean, time will tell or eliminate the need to know.



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Great, after yesterdays 68 degree temps and tornado watches, the thunderstorms fully complete with monsoon like rains that lasted until late this morning. Its back to being colder than a witches tit and sleeting. The pond I didnt know I had is not an ice skating rink. Cheers.

We have had the same changing weather here. From schools closed due to white outs and wind chills to nearly 2 feet of snow now gone. This is not that big a concern for me as the weather here is always erratic. It makes life with fibromyalgia a miserable experience though. Each weather change makes the pain far worse and all the other effects of this nasty condition much worse.

I tend to think this is just life on our Earth. I do think that the Industrial Age has something to do with all of this, but I do think that it is not as big as once thought.

I guess I will need boots and a rain coat to get through this winter.

he's trying to confuse manbearpig.....
excelsior!

I believe I may have found the answer to the Op question

Did a bit of investigation, and came up with the following thread (to much to post here, sorry Op, not trying to derail your thread )

www.abovetopsecret.com...

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Pacific North west, Washington State, USA--we got a "Oh hey! Going to have a 3 day snow storm in 2 hours-that turned out to be a metro traffic stopping blizzard!" last week.

and a, "It'll be clear tomorrow, then within hours, here, have another 6inches! But only 2" show up. It'll snow again tonight-but it doesn't"

The state didn't even have de-icer.
Weather patterns forming more quickly?
It was pretty cool, though...