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Topic Started: Dec 5 2007, 06:29 PM (35,874 Views)
Shadowflight
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o.0 wow Dark, sounds like an exagerrated form of the weather here. (according to accuweather, we're supposed to have snow till thursday, then it's supposed to climb to the high fourties by next monday)
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Elystriana
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I just want to see the sun at least.... :(
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TheDeepDark
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It tends to lend itself to illness, just cuz your body doesn't hardly have a chance to adapt to the cold again and it's baking.
And then it's freezing again.

But this month, SO far, we only dipped to the mid-thirties today and otherwise it's been the forties up to low fifties with the snow melting off gradually.
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Snofox Kari
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sounds like someone finally has "normal" weather...while abnormal for your area

and here we got whacky weather where otherwise "normal" XP
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TheDeepDark
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Global warming friend. Nasty piece of work ;)
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Snofox Kari
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yeah, it's like the earth's got a bad fever :{ and we're the viruses, aren't we? D;
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Elystriana
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Global freezing more like here- it's supposed to snow all week, and off and on a good ways into April. :stare:
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towr
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Yeah, that's what what you get. Because global warming causes the polar regions to warm faster than the rest, the temperature differential decreases, which means the winds that usually create a sort of border between the colder arctic climate and warmer moderate climate gets weaker, causing the arctic weather to break through more often..
Or something like that..
(Disclaimer, I'm not a climatologist, accuracy may vary depending on the extent to which I remember and understand what I've heard, and is at the very least a gross simplification. Reading this disclaimer voids all warranty on imparted information.)
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TheDeepDark
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Ha. towr has fine print.

As I understand the climate shift will keep bringing extremes in both directions weather-wise (hot and cold) at least at first.
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towr
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Yeah, that's why 'climate change' is a better and more accurate label than 'global warming'. Also because (for example) unusual cold spells, while not in any way actually evidence against global warming, are often put forth as such by some people, but they're obvious evidence of 'climate change' either way.
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Snofox Kari
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well, it stands to reason that a shift of one extreme will instigate the other extreme in an attempt to compensate...after all, energy in neither created nor destroyed, so while summers are hotter, they take the energy from winters making them colder (noting, of course, that both seasons occur simultaneously, just shifting from hemisphere to hemisphere depending on which is closer to the sun)

nevertheless, this doesn't mean that seasonal shifts would still occur on time...on the contrary, it makes sense to me that we would see such unusual changes....

but i guess i've just thought enough about it to make sense of it for myself :rolleyes:
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towr
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When it's summer in the northern hemisphere, we're actually furthest from the sun; it has to do with inclination, not distance (the hundreds of kilometers we get closer in summer due to inclination is insignificant compared to the increase in distance due to our elliptical orbit around the sun).
And summers in one hemisphere do not get hotter by taking heat from the other one and causing colder winters there. It's the wrong time-frame to look at, in the first place, because the average winter isn't getting colder; what happens is you're more likely to get a few extreme cold spells even though the average winter is warmer.
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TheDeepDark
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Either way there's a reason why total weather-control systems are fairly rare in science fiction. Climate is a blasted complex system. Trying to shape it could as like kill everything as do anything close to what you want.
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Elystriana
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I wouldn't know- I'm too tired to even try to think through it right now. Friday's supposed to be my rest day...and I have had maybe two hours of free time the whole day. *collapses* -_- We need a sleeping smiley on here- I feel like I'm two-thirds asleep already. :sweatdrop:

But I'm told that this sort of weather is normal for up here... :ermm:
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Snofox Kari
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i made up the taking heat part, i know how the seasons work :P

but you must admit, that heat does escape somewhere, where exactly is not known as it would be difficult to track all heat movement always, but cold = less energy and heat = more energy, no matter the case

and in our case, i don't know if the weather is really as screwy as feel it to be...i mean sure it's not as on schedule as many cultures could even predict and plan their years around the expected seasons based on the position of the sun and eventually our calendar as we have it today, but it seems to me that the seasons have just "shifted"...yes, it's still abnormal, but i feel like it's about the same length of time, just a little later than usual (and in some instances more extreme, but here, for example, winter was relatively warmer than normal despite it being dragged out this long)

in short, weather was hard to predict, but we could at least predict when to expect a change in season....now, not even the science we knew works (unless there's something wrong with our calendar or the earth's shift...which i forgot the name for, but i think it starts with "p"...and no, i don't mean polarity...just planetary wobble in general)
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