Global Warming, my ass!

[cemaphonic]

Snowing in mid-April? In Seattle?

My flowering plum tree is not amused.

[Critters2]

1. We went right from winter to summer.

75 degrees today. Sorry about your weather.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I am sorry to hear that your flowering plum tree

has snow on it...

But global warming doesn't just mean warmer temperatures...

It also means huge variations in what we see as normal...

:hi:

[cemaphonic]

3. yeah, the global warming crack was a joke

I'm pretty convinced that one of the likely outcomes of global warming will be a new Ice Age in Europe.

It's just been a weird spring though. Despite being about as far north as you can go in the contiguous states (Seattle is about the same latitude as Fargo, for you Midwesterners, and the northern tip of Maine for you East Coasters), Seattle has a very mild climate. We usually get a couple days of snow in Dec/Jan and that's it. We got some snow at the end of March, and THAT seemed strange.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Oh, I thought you were serious!

There are folks who do believe what you said is true!

Being on the water is probably why you don't get much snow...and I believe that it's true also for Vancouver.

:hi:

[cemaphonic]

5. Heh, there's humor on the internet for you:)

It's definitely the maritime climate effect - the eastern half of WA is cold as hell during the winter.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. I remember the eastern half of Washington!

I lived there with my parents in the early 50's...

We had snow!

I lived in Richland...

[cemaphonic]

7. That's about the same time my Dad was growing up there.

He lived in Almira, a small farming town near Grand Coulee Dam.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. I remember that dam!

We drove up to see it, and I remember thinking..."all that water"... :scared:

Maybe your dad is my age? I'm 64...

We moved to California when I was 13, back in 1956...

[cemaphonic]

9. It's a big impressive dam all right.

I went to Hoover Dam a few years ago while visiting Las Vegas, and was thinking "that's it?" (although Hoover Dam does have a pretty spectacular setting.) The lake it forms goes all the way to the Canadian border, and they use part of the energy to pump some of the outflow into a huge, formerly dry coulee, which forms the source for the extensive irrigation throughout eastern WA.

Was your family employed at the Hanford site? A big part of the reason that it was sited there was the (at the time) huge amounts of excess power provided by the dam.

My dad just turned 60 last month.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. Yes, it's one impressive dam!

My dad worked for GE, at Hanford, all that hush-hush stuff...

He hated it, and eventually he got transferred to San Jose...

So he could work in peaceful uses of nuclear power...

Your dad is a few years younger than I am...

Small world!

Good night...I'm heading for bed...

I've enjoyed our conversation tonight...

:hi:

[Quantess]

11. It's really weird weather we're having.

No way should it be snowing in April. After all, we are in USDA zone 8 all the way up to Vancouver BC. The cold snap is confusing the poor plants!

[uppityperson]

12. It is quite something. Global Climate change? UPJr called, is upset about it

"freaked out" is what jr said. It's past mid-april and it's snowing! Glad I haven't rushed planting my veg garden yet.