Winter?

[Armistead]

Seems weather has changed since I was a kid. Now, winters are more mild, we don't get much snow. Seems as a kid, we got several nice snows a year, now maybe one....

[Tango589]

Originally Posted by Armistead

Seems weather has changed since I was a kid. Now, winters are more mild, we don't get much snow. Seems as a kid, we got several nice snows a year, now maybe one....

Strange, my memory of summers as as kid are that they stretched on for ever, without a cloud in the sky and were boiling hot every day. Now it's rain, gloom, more rain which we complain about and if we do get a spell of decent weather all people do is complain it's too hot! Us bloody English can't seem to make up our minds!

[BrucePartington]

Originally Posted by Armistead

Seems weather has changed since I was a kid. Now, winters are more mild, we don't get much snow. Seems as a kid, we got several nice snows a year, now maybe one....

Indeed.
Where I live the most noticeable difference is during Summer time. We used to have really warm Summers, we'd wear T-shirts and shorts from June to September, August giving us the temperature pinnacle.
Today, we get some Summer warmth during June, and from July to September we get chilly nights and moderately warm days. Come October and we get a heat wave, as if the Summer warmth was holding back and piling up during the previous 3 months.
In Winter we recently started to (quoting Oberon ) import really cold wind spells from Norway, that last for a week or two.

Weather patterns are indeed changing, partly because of human intervention, but also because weather patterns do change over time, regardless. The Earth wobbles, continental plates drift, etc.

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Good one! That's a good thing. LA has construction (read "obstruction") year-round.

You might enjoy the rest of them, they're pretty damn funny.
http://wintersong.wordpress.com/2008...-about-utahns/

I've been here 42 years now, and I've seen "winters" were it never snowed at all. I also remember one February when the low in Park City was -44, and at noon it sometimes got all the way up to 0. In Utah you just never know.

You know, I made my post yesterday morning excepting maybe a chance of rain in the afternoon. Instead we get our first snow for the season. It melted off in a few hours, but, nonetheless i spoke too soon.

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

That was December 2011. No snow on the ground then.

We are about 4000 feet above sea level. The mountains are just a few miles away. The ones in the picture are just foothills. From elsewhere in the city you can see mountains 11,000 feet high.

Well, in contrast to the that picture in 2011, here's one I took in December of 2012.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

You might enjoy the rest of them, they're pretty damn funny.

Yes they are, mainly because they're all true.

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

You might enjoy the rest of them, they're pretty damn funny.
http://wintersong.wordpress.com/2008...-about-utahns/





You know, I made my post yesterday morning excepting maybe a chance of rain in the afternoon. Instead we get our first snow for the season. It melted off in a few hours, but, nonetheless i spoke too soon.



Well, in contrast to the that picture in 2011, here's one I took in December of 2012.

Where in Ut Valley are you? That kinda looks like Mapleton.

[Kixa]

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