From the “weather is not climate” department, post by Mike Lorrey:
I woke up today to find a couple inches of snow accumulating on my deck, and was thinking about setting up a nice picture there with some of the birds that visit and some of the easter eggs the family has been making this week, when my sixth grade teacher, Catherine Lacombe, who lives down the street from me on Eastman Lake, sent me this link to a picture she took this morning of a Loon caught on the lake in the blizzard. Apparently the Loon was taking navigational and seasonal advice from Al Gore, and wasn’t very amused at all the white stuff coming down. (click on the picture above to get a high res version uploaded by Cathy to The Weather Channel)
This Easter Blizzard is part of the storm system thats providing rain to much of the east coast today, but for northern New England, has converted to snow, sleet, and ice from western Vermont and New Hampshire this morning up to the most northeastern Maine by this evening. We in the north country are usually happy to get snow for Christmas, and thrilled to have it for Thanksgiving, but Easter weekend?
You realise that we have been having a bout of ‘man-made global warming’ here in the UK?! All this while you have merely been having ‘weather’ in the NE of the USA?!
Sarc/
Happy Easter to All,
Annei.
Here in the south-east of England the weather has been “fine and warm/hot” for too long, for gardeners that is. I’m looking forward to the promised cooling which should bring us some much-needed rain. The warmists who live down here must be rubbing their hands with glee. Go north, young warmists, and see it up there! Wet!!
It’s going to really screw up the warmistas minds if the USA has a cooler North and a Hotter South this year, especially if those ice caps keep on hanging around.
remember when it used to have to “warm up” to snow?
C
Temperatures in the South East of England topped 80F (27C) yesterday, well above the average for this time of year. The Easter weekend has seen temperatures higher than those in southern Spain and some Greek islands. Beaches across the UK were packed with Britons enjoying the record-breaking Easter Bank Holiday weekend weather.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01879/weather2_1879553c.jpg
OK, Easter may be a little late, but I do recall trudging through 13 inches of snow in Boston on April 6/7 1982. Vivid recollection of the snow piled up on the fully-bloomed yellow azalea bushes.
There’s brief mention of it here:
http://boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/gallery/april_fools_1997_lookback?pg=3
The interesting thing about yesterdays’ snow, at least here, just south of the Lakes Region in NH, was that it started as rain first thing in the morning, with a temperature around 35°, but then gradually began mixing with snow, with the temperature dropping.
Eventually, it changed to all snow, with a temperature around 32°, somewhere around mid – to – late morning, I believe. We wound up with a light coating on the ground, and perhaps 1/2″ on the vehicles. The temperature stayed in the 30’s a good part of the afternoon, eventually “warming” to around 40° by late afternoon. So far, it’s been a very cool, wet Spring, with the exception of one brief warm spell for a day or so a couple of weeks ago.
Out here on the West Coast, we are having our 2nd Winter.
We had a 6 week Spring from mid January to end of February.
The water agencies are just now waking up to a problem we are facing of delayed runoff, with the reservoirs full or darn near full.
Coldest in 30 years … worst fire’s in TX since the 1970s … worst flood in 40 years … Hmmm. You don’t think we are in for a good spell of cooling..
Global Sun Oven:
I live in California near Los Angeles. I purchased sun oven around two years ago (c. 2007). Weighs 21 lbs according to information on web site. Sturdy, well constructed. Made from oak, aluminum, glass, rubber, and plastic.
My opinion is that the product is somewhat better than the company that makes it claims. It is durable and well-made. Comes with attached thermostat which is big help. Supposedly it is made in USA, and this is another plus to me. Also, I find it easy to use. I find that I can set up the oven in 1 to 2 minutes.
I have cooked pizza, soup, nachos, hot dogs, burritos, etc. Food tastes wonderful, and didn’t burn. A few days ago, I made chicken soup, starting with 2 frozen thighs, in a 2 or 3 liter (quart) pot. After around 1.5 hours, the chicken, noodles, and vegetables were well-cooked, and the smell was heavenly! I feel that the soup tasted a little better then if cooked in regular oven or stove. Some Hispanic neighbors (great cooks!) told me they loved the smell of the soup that floated around the area. Yesterday, I cooked a pizza and was surprised it didn’t burn to aluminum foil, but came off rather easy.
According to my experience, the sun oven cooks food around as fast as a regular oven. However, when it is cloudy or overcast, the oven is much less effective (this holds true with any solar oven).
The only caveat is as follows. Oven is not a toy! Use heat pad to take out pots. glass oven cover and cooked items will be VERY HOT! Be sure to watch children around oven. Of course this is true with any oven. Also watch animals. My beast (cat) smelled chicken soup, opened up the oven, pulled out the pot, and was trying to take out the chicken. My daughters and I take oven to park for picnic, and it attracts crowd when we set up.
The oven truly is a remarkable product, and on a sunny day, works great!
Thank you.