Originally posted by ZombieOctopus
Originally posted by genius/idoit
reply to post by OzWeatherman
Not only that we don't know if it's warming or cooling
"We" do, some Americans don't.
I know it's harder to appreciate down there where it's always hot. It's not as immediately obvious when it goes from warm to only moderately warm.
But when it goes from lots of snow, to nearly none or none period, you notice, everyone here notices. The further towards the equator you go, the less
apparent it's going to become, but just because you don't personally see it when you walk outside, doesn't mean it isn't happening all over the
rest of the world.
sure you notice that in the last ten years or so... but what happens when in another ten years you guys are buried in snow.
the thing is there is no way to as a matter of factly say that this trend of "global warming" is going to continue. there are very very few metoc
observations coming out of canada. and i know as a forecaster my self working in the NE region that most of those stations are not correctly
augmented. and when an ASOS goes on auto there are all sorts of possible errors. temperature aspirator fans go out and when that happens you see
anywhere from 1-10ºC error in temperature!
while i do not discount your first hand witness of there being less snow, may i point out that there are other places in North America that are
getting overloads of snow and EARLY.
that is how this big ol world works.
if the long wave pattern is net average ridging over your part of canada for the winter, then yuo may get less snow. that does not mean that the globe
is warming, it just means that the upper atmospheric pattern is in a cycle, and its your turn to be warm for a decade or two.
