Is the weather changing where you are?
By snowflake5
@snowflake5 (1579)
United States
December 14, 2006 7:20pm CST
The weather is certainly changing in Britain. We've been famous for a mild, drizzly climate, but in the last few years, the weather has gone mad.
First we had the really warm summer of 2004, where we nearly reached 40C - unprecedented, the warmest summer since records began, and our native plants shriveled and died in the heat. Then we've been having freak events like flash floods (caused by massive amounts of rain all at once, instead of our normal fine drizzle of rain) and we've even had tornados!
Now it's winter and my forsythia is starting to bud because it thinks it's spring, it's that warm.
I hate what is happening. If it continues, all the familiar plants will struggle to grow and as a consequence the landscape will change forever. So much of our culture is weather-related. Will future generations be able to understand what a "Host of yellow daffodils" look like?
What's it like where you are - is your weather changing too?
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9 responses
@HimArticles (1137)
• India
17 Dec 06
I live in northern part of India. It is very cold these days particularly morning and evening. The current temperature is 21 degree max and 3 min. There was light snow fall in high altitudes two three days ago. After the snow fall and rain cold wave is also blowing. I think in next coming days the temperature will go further down and it will make life more dull and miserable.
@snowflake5 (1579)
• United States
17 Dec 06
Is snow normal in India? I always imagined it as a hot country.
@snowflake5 (1579)
• United States
18 Dec 06
You live near the Himalayas? Wow! Have you attempted any mountain climbing, or is it too dangerous?
@HimArticles (1137)
• India
18 Dec 06
In the Himalayan region snow fall is normal in winter season. You are right most of states in India are very hot during summer; temperature goes up to 45 degree. Northern part of India is very hot in summer and equally cold in winter.
@trouble4u2avoid (2915)
• United States
15 Feb 07
I have lived in Florida for the past 14 years and until 2 years ago the weather was pretty much the same. But in the past 2 years, I have seen an increase in tornados and hurricanes.
@snowflake5 (1579)
• United States
15 Feb 07
Maybe it's time to move house while you can still sell your property for a decent sum? The question is where to go.
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@snowflake5 (1579)
• United States
17 Feb 07
You'll get used to it again. Anyway the planet is supposed to be warming and New Jersey might too!
@trouble4u2avoid (2915)
• United States
16 Feb 07
I have been seriously considering moving back to New Jersey. All my family lives there. I just dread the cold weather. My sister said the winters haven't been too bad. I think it's extremely funny because when I moved from NJ, I was leaving one of the worst winters ever. It was horrible. My kids were all little and I was pregnant. The worst part was my husband had already left for Florida to work with his Dad and find us a place to live.
@Willowlady (10658)
• United States
22 Dec 06
HaHaHa...I just started a similar discussion and was wondering if worse or unstable...we are finding patterns that do lead us to think our world is changing and it is. The normal pattern of the earth is to go in cycles. perhaps we are just in a change of pattern or perhaps we truly have mucked up the place where we all live. I can out of a store tonight and looked up in the sky and exclaimed "wow, it is so warm, where is the snowy Christmas?" drizzly and 40 degrees is not what we call normal here in Northern Ohio in U.S. I am hoping we get enough freeze days so the apples and peaches set fruit this year. Birds normally flocking to the bird feeders still have bugs to eat!
@snowflake5 (1579)
• United States
22 Dec 06
It is the normal pattern of the earth to go in cycles - but these are usually gradual. The changes we've seen in the last 5 years are sudden.
And while it's true that the earth has had very hot periods, we should note that humans hadn't evolved at the time. We are creatures of the ice age, and I've not sure we are capable of evolving fast enough to adapt to the change in climate (we only give birth every 25-30 years, and the climate changes are happening much quicker).
@anjuscor (1266)
• India
23 Dec 06
I am in india, Bangalore.It always cool. Weather is the best in bangalore. It will warm in summer, but not hot. In winter, it cold, not really chill. It will never snow here.I love the weather here. But in 2006, now in december, it is 12 degrees/celcius is the temperature.
@snowflake5 (1579)
• United States
21 Dec 06
Thanks for your response. I think the weather is changing everywhere
@rsbrsb (217)
• India
25 Dec 06
yes i am from india and here also the wheatrher is changing drastically . here its very cold.
@the_dutchess (2610)
• Philippines
15 Dec 06
yeah during last month, it was so warm that i thought we wouldn't have a nice christmas season but all of a sudden three strong typhoons came here in our country and it change everything, it was a total disaster in provinces and i feel totally sad for them. anyway, as for the weather, it is pretty cold here now and it's cloudy during the day
@snowflake5 (1579)
• United States
15 Dec 06
I heard about the typhoons in the Phillipines. I hope you are all coping. It's dreadful when the weather turns nasty.
@Legend950 (171)
• United States
15 Dec 06
It should be snowing here where I am now, but instead its in the 60s.
@celray (141)
• United States
18 Feb 07
I live in Massachusetts, this January we had temperatures in the 70s which I am not complaintning and February we are back to normal freezing our behinds but i just hope that the summer is not cold, everything is changing all over the world.I am from Puerto Rico where used to be hot years round now my mother is telling me that is getting unusually cold there too.
