Wanna bet?

[pyesetz]

After two solid months of below-average temperatures, the forecast now calls for two weeks of warmth -- most of it actually above freezing!  My dog "Walnut" will be so happy that the days of -20°C wind-chills will soon be over.  Happy days are here again!

Anyone wanna bet that a "Colorado low" or a "quick-forming storm over Texas" will invalidate this forecast and give us another two weeks of snow-every-day?

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I'm not sure how this relates to Global Warming.  Apparently the melting in the Arctic is causing overheated weather in Russia this year, while Canada (and much of the USA) gets Russia's usual weather due to a 90° shift in the usual Arctic wind patterns.  La Niña is in "neutral" this year, while the Pacific Decadal Oscillation is in a medium-term "cool" phase which is covering up some of the long-term Global Warming effects.  When will I be able to plant a palm tree in my back yard?

Comments

[dakhun.livejournal.com]

In Hamilton, we are supposed to have a rainy weekend this weekend with temperatures +10C and up (that's the forecast morning low each day). That can pretty much melt anything, and is 17 degrees above the normal overnight low of -7C.

17 degrees is... a lot! :-o