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Originally Posted by tis
Two things that quickly come to mind is it was an El Nino winter and we also have a lot of bubblers on the docks now which we never used to have.
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That would be this year...
The decline has been over time.
I don't see it as unusually for two reasons.
First, we used to have about a mile of glacier over our heads, so we know that the planet... or at least this area... has warmed steadily for some time.
In a natural pattern, the speed of warming would be slow... then pick up dramatically as you went up the bell curve... crest for a time at the top... and then fall slowly, then dramatically toward the bottom.
We should be in that dramatic warming period, that at most could be accelerated - but not halted without severe intervention.
Secondly, like the bubblers... I don't have data... but when you change the composition of water - it changes its freeze point. This is like us using salt on the roads.
It creates some issues... but adjusting to changes in environment is practically a part of New England DNA. Thus the quote - "If you don't like the weather, just wait a minute".