On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 10:47:21AM -0500, frank theriault scripsit: > Not that I want to get into YAGWFW (yet another global warming flame > war), it's all about global averages, isn't it? Local weather may be > colder or more snowy than usual, but Virginia's snowstorms may be > balanced out by the fact that Toronto's winters have been much milder > of late than in the past (last year being an exception to that trend).
Well, there's some of that, but there's also "warmer = more evaporation", and all that water has to eventually fall out of the sky, which it is going to do that at unhelpful rates and in surprising places some of the time. > We've had a pretty mild winter this year, with lots of rain and almost > not snow. Thirty years ago it would have been much colder and > snowier. And there wouldn't have been the cool, wet spring that lasted until the end of July, either. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
