77 or so today; sunny skies too.
Oh, the weather outside is...
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Snow equipment doesn't seem to fit with a Sicilian location, yet your use of Celsius seems unusual for an American.
Zkribbler
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I approve of Americans using Celsius.
The US should switch completely to metric. Anything less is barbarism.
stfoskey12
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The US should switch completely to metric. Anything less is barbarism.
Right now I'm an American studying in the UK and all of the units in my life are a confusing mix of metric and imperial. It really would be nice to have just one system. Also, I study meteorology, and it's a bit annoying because upper air temperatures are usually in Celsius, but surface temps are usually in Fahrenheit (in the US). Potential temperature (I can explain that if anyone's curious) is given in Kelvin. Pressure is usually in millibars/hectopascals, but people sometimes convert it to inHg for some reason. Wind can be in mph or knots, but occasionally m/s. Precipitation is usually in inches (in the US), but heights of pressure levels are often in decameters.
Zkribbler
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I woke up this morning to a beautiful blue, sunny sky. 
It is now 09:14. The sky is completely gray, and a giant black nimbus cloud is headed right at me.
Edit: 10:00 The nimbus cloud has overflown us. Skies remain gray, but I doubt rain.
It is now 09:14. The sky is completely gray, and a giant black nimbus cloud is headed right at me.
Edit: 10:00 The nimbus cloud has overflown us. Skies remain gray, but I doubt rain.
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Bamspeedy
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80 F last weekend. Wife plants tomatoes. This weekend they are projecting snow.
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June Gloom set in already this year. We get a cloud layer that comes in from the coast that covers the whole sky and persists until midday at the earliest. It doesn't produce much rain but it keeps temperatures reasonable until decently late in spring/early summer. The rain we got over the winter has been really bad for my allergies. Since moving here, I've been able to stop taking daily allergy medication but the past few weeks I've had to go back on them.
The hills around me are starting to turn yellow but it's hard to tell if that's because all the plants are dying or if it's primarily this mustard-weed invasive species that's in bloom. From the distance, the weed looks like dying grasses and it's had a massive bloom the last couple of weeks. Anyways, I'm happy plants are still alive even if it's bad for my sinuses!
The hills around me are starting to turn yellow but it's hard to tell if that's because all the plants are dying or if it's primarily this mustard-weed invasive species that's in bloom. From the distance, the weed looks like dying grasses and it's had a massive bloom the last couple of weeks. Anyways, I'm happy plants are still alive even if it's bad for my sinuses!
Sunny; in the 80s; beautiful NM weather.
Meteorology is fascinating.
We had a couple of units on that in the physical geography course I took in college, and I still remember most of it even though it was 34 years ago. At least I'm not staring at all the snow coming down here today and wondering where it came from. There's a reason, and yes, what happens out in the Pacific has a profound effect on the weather where I live, even though I'm a two-day drive from the nearest ocean (which is the Pacific).The snow isn't going to stay long, though.
"The hills are aliiive... with the sound of sneezing..."
Morty
Prince
This - although as a large part of my BSC undergraduate degree is in the subject I guess I'm probably a little biased!!
BirraImperial
Pura Vida!
"Winter" (For us mainly, what we call the rainy season) should have arrived at least 2 weeks ago...We still have pretty hot days with little or no rain...This has caused a major blow to the environment as rivers have significantly less water flow and water rationing has started on several parts of the country...I hope rains start falling soon, but if this isn't an indicator of Global Warming raging in, I don't know what else it could be...
Hygro
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Lexicus
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BenitoChavez
What business is it of yours?
It depends. If the lack of rain and warmer temperatures only occurred this year and previous years have been normal then it's just a variation in the weather. If this has been occurring year after year after year then it's climate change/global warming.
Lexicus
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It's certainly true you can have seasonal variation and in many parts of the world seasonal variation is highly dependent on the ENSO - I think research into how the ENSO is affected by global warming is in its infancy.
However we know that one of the symptoms of global warming is drastic and rapid changes to precipitation patterns. The failure of seasonal rains in some places leading to terrible drought, and ridiculous flooding in others is consistent with the overall changes being caused by global warming.
However we know that one of the symptoms of global warming is drastic and rapid changes to precipitation patterns. The failure of seasonal rains in some places leading to terrible drought, and ridiculous flooding in others is consistent with the overall changes being caused by global warming.
