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So... i don't know if anyone else cares but our weather (South Australian) has been seriously strange. It's February which is usually the hottest month of the year and it's been raining... and hailing... Usually we're worried about bushfires in Feb but not now... It's driving me insane because I really want it to be hot... Anyway just thought i'd say that...

Anybody else got any comments on their weather?

Aussie's not the only place getting weird weather. Here in Minnesota (USA), it is unusually warm.....





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Goddamn it! When will it EVER FRIGGIN COOL DOWN!!! I want my ice and snow! Where the fuck is it?!

Damn you, El nino! *shakes fist*

*Stomps out of the room, furiously enraged*

Even worse, NASA (also USA) says that 2005 will be the warmest on record for the entire planet! :mp5: :mp5: :mp5:

This thread should be shut down forthwith for promoting the false idea that climate change exists. Global warming, HAH! Quit spreading your pernicious propoganda!

Western Canada: It's been a "normal" winter, for the first time in years. We've had drought the past few years, with little snow and that's hard on the farmer's crops. Last year it rained a good-some, and this year looks to be good.

We have a two month drought, and have lost over half the harvest. Go a little North, to São paolo and Minas Gerais, and they have had states of emergency due to excess rain. A fraction further still to the North, and Alagoas, Pernambuco and Paraiba have had three months of drought.
Yep, its a strange year alright?

I've been noticing that my ex in Australia keeps getting the opposite weather as we are in California. When they had mid-summer hail, we had mid-winter shorts weather. When it rained here, she was half-naked on the web cam. God I love it when it rains here.

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On a more serious note, I should point out the myth of the weather cycle. Contrary to what you may have been taught, the weather doesn't go in a loop. The weather is, constantly, changing in to some other different set of patterns. The day the weather is stagnant is the day we have to be -worried-.

I lived in the Northwest Territories the past three years, and the permafrost has been melting there. Everything is built on stilts, so this has caused some bulidings to shift, and others to collapse. Big problem. Plus, the elders say in the last 10 years, it's gotten steadily brighter up there...during the winter, you'd have 20 minutes of twilight, and the rest of the day and night were pitch black. Now, it's like a constant twilight...dark, but not pitch. Scientists say it has something to do with the destruction of ozone and so on...

But there is NO (human caused) CLIMATE CHANGE!

Missouri always has weird weather.

Snow one day, followed by weather in the 50's, followed by two days of rain w/ some sun, and then its partly cloudy with a chance of snow again.

It's maddening hot here in Malaysia. Hotter than usual :(

In about a month time if no rain comes, we would have a water shortage and water would need to be rationed.

Oh yeah?
Well we're under six feet of snow, it's 115 degrees out, and there are tornadoes, flooding, volcanic activity, random smitings by God, and alien abductions.
:D

In Central Ohio it is normal. Mid to upper 20's fahrenheit. Some snow, some not. Scarves and coats are nice.

I lived in the Northwest Territories the past three years, and the permafrost has been melting there. Everything is built on stilts, so this has caused some bulidings to shift, and others to collapse. Big problem. Plus, the elders say in the last 10 years, it's gotten steadily brighter up there...during the winter, you'd have 20 minutes of twilight, and the rest of the day and night were pitch black. Now, it's like a constant twilight...dark, but not pitch. Scientists say it has something to do with the destruction of ozone and so on...
It is most likely the result of "precession", the gradual shifting of the orientation of the earths axis of spin.

We've been having very weird weather. It's already our wettest Feb on record, by a long chalk, and we're not even halfway through the month. It should be stinking hot & dry as a nun's proverbial.

It is most likely the result of "precession", the gradual shifting of the orientation of the earths axis of spin.

I read somewhere that it was caused by Bush's ancestors. :D

Winter weather in Oklahoma is always weird. It snows one day and all melts the next. Yesterday we had a high of 24 F, with a wind chill of 10 F. Today it was nearly 70 F. We've had tornados in December and 6 inches of snow in October.
But summer is always the same. Hot. Usually 2-4 weeks total of over 100 F.

I read somewhere that it was caused by Bush's ancestors. :D
Darn you, Skapedroe! :D :D :D

We've actually had a decent snowfall for the first time in decade. Otherwise, about normal. About 3 weeks (total, not consecutive) of -30 or -40, the rest around 0 or 10. Pretty nice overall.

global Warming!
We're All Gonna Die!

global Warming!
We're All Gonna Die!
No, we all died already, we just haven't noticed yet.

In my part of Texas it's been mostly normal for this time of year so far, and as long as it gets into ice storms for the next two weeks I won't be concerned.

(The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is supposed to have horrible weather for all the trail riders hoofing it in from across the state )

Waves to the longer rides that are already enroute and hopes that it will be unusual - for I'd rather be concerned about the weather rather than whether those crazies and their horses are out there freezing.

Hello, fellow texas cat nut.

Winter weather in Oklahoma is always weird. It snows one day and all melts the next. Yesterday we had a high of 24 F, with a wind chill of 10 F. Today it was nearly 70 F. We've had tornados in December and 6 inches of snow in October.
But summer is always the same. Hot. Usually 2-4 weeks total of over 100 F.
But it does seem to be getting colder in Oklahoma later in the year and usually doesn't last as long as it used to(at least, that's what I've been noticing). But, yeah, you're right; Oklahoma weather has always been "tempermental" lol.

Between Friday (2/10) and sunday (2/12) we in phoenix will have recieved more rain than in the whole of 2003.

The desert is green, it is very strange and beautiful.

Between Friday (2/10) and sunday (2/12) we in phoenix will have recieved more rain than in the whole of 2003.

The desert is green, it is very strange and beautiful.
Can you give us a pic? I'd like to see a green desert :)

Location: Maine

Midweek, all our snow melted. Then we got two more feet in the last two days. Hurrah.

Location: Maine

Midweek, all our snow melted. Then we got two more feet in the last two days. Hurrah.
i thought you lived in kanookistan

i thought you lived in kanookistan

Nope. Bangor.

Nope. Bangor.

weird somehow i had the impression you had left the allegheny for the great white north, not the moderately northern whiteness of stephen king country.

weird somehow i had the impression you had left the allegheny for the great white north, not the moderately northern whiteness of stephen king country.

Ugh...it's white enough and north enough for me. Shoveling several times a day is teh suxx0rs, as they say.

Oooo...and I saw Stephen King's house. Awesome. I now bow thrice daily in the general direction of his street.

Location: Maine

Midweek, all our snow melted. Then we got two more feet in the last two days. Hurrah.

Yeah, that's sort of exactly what it's been like waaaaaaay down here in New Hampshire. Warm warm warm, snooooooooooooooooooow...warm warm warm, snoooooooooooooooooooooooow.

We haven't even really had little snowstorms like normal winters. You know, 3, 4 inch storms. It's either been 50 degrees or in the middle of dumping 24 inches on us all winter.

Yeah, that's sort of exactly what it's been like waaaaaaay down here in New Hampshire. Warm warm warm, snooooooooooooooooooow...warm warm warm, snoooooooooooooooooooooooow.

We haven't even really had little snowstorms like normal winters. You know, 3, 4 inch storms. It's either been 50 degrees or in the middle of dumping 24 inches on us all winter.

Ah, so this is atypical, then? This is my first New England winter, so I wasn't sure what to expect.

Ah, so this is atypical, then? This is my first New England winter, so I wasn't sure what to expect.

Well, usually it's friggin cold every damned day. None of this 50 F bullshit. The amount of snow varies. Usually it's like a flurry of 4-6 every few days. This winter has been less snowstorms, but way more snow than usual. I can't think of the last time we've had this many 12+ inch snowstorms in a month.

its been very wet this whole past year here in lovely northwest penciltucky. alot of tempature fluctuation, but overall less snow and cold than the last couple of winters, but last summer never really came, it was cold and wet like the bad part of spring for 6 months.

its been very wet this whole past year here in lovely northwest penciltucky. alot of tempature fluctuation, but overall less snow and cold than the last couple of winters, but last summer never really came, it was cold and wet like the bad part of spring for 6 months.

Yeah, that's the way things were in the Southern Tier, too. I have to be honest, though...I liked it better than the usual hellish muggy heat.

The weather here is supposed to be very wet with lots of rain, but it's been more dry with spells of rain (ie less rain). I'm in northern Australia. It should be wet and humid, but it's humid without rain.

Can the people with their heads in the sand acknowledge our weather is getting screwed up or with they learn the hard way when mother nature strikes?

The weather here is supposed to be very wet with lots of rain, but it's been more dry with spells of rain (ie less rain). I'm in northern Australia. It should be wet and humid, but it's humid without rain.

Can the people with their heads in the sand acknowledge our weather is getting screwed up or with they learn the hard way when mother nature strikes?

Surprising that you're from Northern Australia. I'm from Southeastern Australia and we have experienced the opposite of you. Whereas we should be experiencing scorching hot temperatures and possibly drought, instead we have been pelted with the greatest rainstorm Victoria has ever seen.

Surprising that you're from Northern Australia. I'm from Southeastern Australia and we have experienced the opposite of you. Whereas we should be experiencing scorching hot temperatures and possibly drought, instead we have been pelted with the greatest rainstorm Victoria has ever seen.

Yep, same in SA although apparently tomorrow its gonna be 38C (no idea what that is in Farenheit...)

YAY!!!! i love hot weather...!!!!! :)
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