It's January! It's 57F! It's crazy!

Scientists say 2007 may be warmest yet - Yahoo! News:

"The short-term effects of global warming on crop production are very uneven," said Daniel Hillel, a researcher at Columbia University's Center for Climate Systems Research. "I warn against making definitive predictions regarding any one season's weather."

What is clear is that the cumulative effect of El Nino and global warming are taking the Earth's temperatures to record heights.

"El Niño is an independent variable," Jones said. "But the underlying trends in the warming of the Earth is almost certainly a result of the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere."

You know what pisses me off the most?

The year it's going to be a brown winter is the same year I bought my kids snowboards. Every previous year they were the only kids without them. Every time it would snow I'd slap my forhead for the lack of sleds and snowboards.

So here I am, feeling like a good mother for getting them their snow gear early and .... it's not going to snow.

Honestly, I can't win.

Damn you global warming!


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Congratulations

It's warmer there than it is currently in my humble burg northeast of Los Angeles.

I am freezing my tootsies off.

...and we didn't see ANY snow when we visited Sheboygan over the holidays, which bummed the kids out a little.


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YEP

I'm (slightly) known for suggesting long term trend predictions are nebulous.....

BUT - I can tell you that while the Northern Michigan ski resorts were known in the days before air travel as the premier ski destinations for the East Coast crowd (air travel opened up the Rockies)

Our ski resorts for the last 10 years (plus) have been transforming themselves into golf / conference destinations.

We had our earliest snow since 1908 on October 12, then it melted, then it snowed again a month later, then it melted, and its more or less been raining for about a month now (it seems anyway).

(it melted the next day)


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