First snowfall in 4 months here in NH

[Raven]

and killer tornados come early in the south and midwest.

No truth that that global warming claptrap...right Republicans?

[Siwsan]

1. My daffodils are up, almost a month ahead of their usual appearance

I'm in Mid-Michigan. Very little snow, this winter. We got more in one storm, last year, than the entire season, this year. The ground is thawing so fast, I'm afraid we will be mowing by mid-April.

[stuntcat]

8. mine too, at least a month early

my crocuses started a month early too.

[Brickbat]

2. Guess we'll have to see what it's like next year.

[csziggy]

3. I was talking to a newly discovered 'cousin' in Upper Peninsula Michigan

Just outside of Escanaba and last night they had the first snowfall of the YEAR. The UP is known for a lot of snowfall in a normal year - she's 72, lived there all her life and has never seen this happen before.

On the other hand, here I am outside Tallahassee, Florida and this is one of the warmest winters I have seen in the 40 years I've lived here. We've had one cold snap and a couple of frosts, but most of the "winter" has been 60-70 days and 40-60 nights - way warmer than normal.

This is after LAST winter when we had one of the longest and coldest spells in recorded history here. I think it was two full weeks when the temperature didn't get above the mid-30s and it was around 20 every night! The summer before THAT was one of the hottest summers we'd ever had.

Climate change is happening.

[DesMoinesDem]

4. So now lack of snow is do to global warming again?

Last year the large amount of snowfall was due to global warming. I remember reading here on DU that it was OBVIOUS that warmer weather would lead to more snow. Something about more evaporation, so more moisture in the air making more snow. It's hard to keep up.

[DesMoinesDem]

7. OK, climate change causes more snow and less snow

due to 'more energy' in the 'weather engine'. That sounds so scientific. My friends will definitely buy that.

[stuntcat]

9. sounds like no matter what your friends are told their minds are probably made up.

and no matter how many scientists tell it to them.

[kestrel91316]

12. Your friends don't believe anything that isn't in the bible, and cheer the coming apocalypse

with fervent glee. Their opinions are of no concern to actual scientists or those of us who understand science.

[snagglepuss]

6. Climate change is a better term than global warming. Global warming

changes the climate.

[uppityperson]

10. No. It's due to Global Climate Change making weather extremes more common.

More snow. Less snow. More rain. Less rain. All weather extremes, see?

[kestrel91316]

11. Are you people THICK??? What part of "worsening extremes of weather" and

"more weather records being broken" do you not get??

This sort of BIZARRE, unseasonable weather is exactly the trend predicted by climatologists, just like last year's extremes, and the year before, etc.