What happened to winter?

[johnnybgood]

Snowpack will be minimal along the AT corridor this holiday season as a current weak air mass will prevail for the remainder of the week.
According to www.weatherunderground.com sudden stratospheric weaking will begin to allow the colder Arctic air to sink down from Canada at years end.

January should see more seasonal winter weather and likely an increased chance of snow for the northeast.

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming ...

[BlakeGrice]

Toli told me there was 2" on top of Blood Mtn a few weeks back

[rocketsocks]

Snowpack will be minimal along the AT corridor this holiday season as a current weak air mass will prevail for the remainder of the week.
According to www.weatherunderground.com sudden stratospheric weaking will begin to allow the colder Arctic air to sink down from Canada at years end.

January should see more seasonal winter weather and likely an increased chance of snow for the northeast.

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming ...

you did that naked did'nt you

[daddytwosticks]

Weather Channel had the long range forecast for Jan thru March 2012 last night. Looks like it will be warmer than average at the southern end of the AT. Don't know about precipitation.

[Slo-go'en]

how come the ice age didnt last? was it due to global warming caused by the cromagnon or the neanderthals. i dont think so. the earth has always been warming but modern man has aided in the speed up of the process over the last 50 to 75 years since the industrial boom.....

Actually, the question should be why hasn't the next ice age started? We should be well into now. The answer is human activity. We started with farming in Asia and cutting down and burning trees in Europe, 5 or 6 thousand years ago. Over the last 100 years we've gotten really good at pumping out the CO2.

But we won't be able to keep doing that forever. Sooner or later the oil is going to run out and the coal too hard to get too. We'll frack all the gas out of the shale. With cheap, abundant and easy energy gone forever, populations will plumit and we'll go back to an early 1800's technology. CO2 levels will deminish, the ice age will start up again and wipe out any sign of us from North America and Europe. All will be well again.

[Sarcasm the elf]

Now that I've got that off of my chest, let me ask; How has the mild weather we've had so far this fall/winter affected your hiking and outdoor plans?

[Pedaling Fool]

How has the mild weather we've had so far this fall/winter affected your hiking and outdoor plans?

I've been working in the yard more, because of this outstanding winter we've been having; I could never of done that during the last 3 winters. Some pics

Butterfly Weed going to seed


Transplanted the smaller Varigated Shell Ginger to a sunnier spot so it could grow as fast as the larger one

[Alligator]

Please don't hijack the weather threads towards global warming/climate change. It's the usual suspects, we have had threads on the subject. They wind up closed.

Thanks.

[Lemni Skate]

Yeah, statistically this is not abnormal. Human brains tend to find patterns in everything. We have some years where December is warmer than usual and some where it is colder than usual. What we never get is a year where every month has average temperatures and average precipitation. Unless it hits 85 or -15 degrees in the next three months or we get 100 inches of snow then this winter will end up not sticking in my mind as particularly special.

[Chaco Taco]

Sleet and snow mix today. Still think it supposed to be colder up here and more snow so far. I have a feeling that Jan and Feb are going to be brutal though but at least my first winter in New England looks to be shorter than usual. Let me ease into it

[mudhead]

Famous friggin' last words...

Now you've done it.