Rose, I love your response! It doesn't have to be Yoda... I could imagine such words spoken by the kind of Karate master no one can overcome.
To add to what Rose said, even a lifetime is usually not long enough to tell if a climate is changing. The climate has varied a lot over several thousand years, and even within the last 500 years it's gone through cycles. This is what makes it so hard to prove "what caused the most recent global warming and is it going to continue?" If we caused it, then the answer is yes. If we didn't, then we need to find the cause and figure out what it plans to do next.
ITD, thank you. My cam's viewers (the ones that email) like it when you and other people ride past in sailboats. They say that seeing a sailboat in the view is pleasantly distracting while they are at work... so think of yourself as indirectly lowering workplace productivity as you sail back and forth in my cam and the other lake cams that distract people at work.
Getting back to the "spring has sprung" theme....
1) Today's weathermap has a classic spring pattern of severe weather across the south (warm air surging north from the Gulf) and clashing with cold air further north (lots of heavy rain and snow up and down the east coast.) Today's snow was normal spring weather here in NH... part of the back-and-forth battle that started in the last few days. The battle will continue with spits of snow alternating with 50+ temps. Eventually this battle will give way to sunny and 80 degrees... just a question of how soon.
2) Moths are outside now.. just a few... and I saw the first few flies yesterday. Lots of spring bird species now. About 2 weeks ago I saw the first robin while driving through Madbury.
3) Wanna get rid of the snow in your yard? I just stumbled on a solution. I had reason to walk through the yard and found my feet "post-holing" through the crust into the deep snow every few steps. Now in the areas of the snow that I stomped down and loosened (with my feet) the sun has melted them down to bare ground. The snow that still has its crust is holding on. So... if you want to get rid of your snow faster, I say you should go out and start stomping it and kicking it around, loosening it up. Do a dance on it, get friends to join. Maybe have a snow-stomping BBQ, have a volleyball game on it... make a fun day of it. Break up the top crust and the sun will melt the granular stuff underneath.
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