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Originally Posted by travelguy
and yet there are a whole lot of people who think that global warming does not exist. wake up. have you not noticed that over our lifetimes that the vegetation has changed. plants that you could not grow because they would freeze over winter can now be grown (ex. crape myrtles in southeast pennsylvania; palmettos on the delmarva peninsula). it is real and it is happening!
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You are correct and right on target.
I've noticed it for at least a dozen or more years, having lived in Vermont for the past 43 years.
Once upon a time you could tell the seasons like clockwork.
January "thaw" always came on January 15th or thereabouts.
Not so anymore. First of all, there hasn't been much snow or ice to thaw out. Mostly rain.
Also, the "thawing" seems to begin earlier with heavy rains in November and December in place of all the snow.........not every year, but often.
The beautiful month of May which used to be glorious is now a rainy season. In the summer, we'd get a summer thunderstorm to break the heat which was rare. Lately, it's lasted all summer long with rain very often during the week.
The very brief summer weather would break in mid August and autumn weather would begin..........lately, it stays hot longer.
The weather pattern has just changed. it is getting warmer and more humid and hotter, if truth be told.
Last year, we gave our grandson one of the super big LLBEAN sonic tubes for sledding downhill; they live in a rural northern part of Vermont.
He had NO SNOW. USED IT ONCE. His elementary school had planned weekend ice skating, skiing, tabogganing for the children..........cancelled each week due to lack of snow. Very weird weather.
Actually, there was one whole decade back in the 1990's that hardly any snow fell and many of those children, now in their late 20's didn't get to use their sleds, skiis, etc. at all.
That reminds me of one hunting season that my husband went hunting (twenty some years ago) in shirtsleeve weather with no snow on the ground to see the deer tracks. Normally, they would wear woolen jackets, warm winter stuff.........
Lots of changes. One March about 12 years ago it was 95 degrees in our town..........now that is unheard of. WE had to take my mom to the hospital and they had no airconditioning.......everyone was suffering with the heat. She had fallen at the senior center and was taken by ambulence. We met her there..........the 95 degrees in March was the talk of the hospital...........
When we came home, all of the WILD FLOWERS and blossoming trees were in bloom TOO EARLY as it was only March which usually gets ice storms and snow. It still snows in April up here...........these are just small things but in the larger scheme of things I do see global warming............but then again, they talk about a new ice age. We can't win.