Safe to say weather conditions are on everybody’s mind and lips. One cant walk the streets without stopping and having a chat about the anomalies, even people who once walked by with just a nod or a cheery hello now extol the “crazy weather eh”.
Yesterday was the pits with fog and drizzle and up to +2, like it is supposed to be in the high minus single digits, and snow should be on the ground, any sort of snow fer Christ sakes.
2009 was all the talk for its unusual warmth strange snow fall patterns and even stranger ice forming patterns.
So using 2009 as a baseline I compared the days November 1 to December 5 to the corresponding days in 2010.
Total days are 35.
Totals days in 2009 that the mean high temperature was higher than 2010=8.
Total days in 2010 that the mean high temperature was higher than 2009= 23.
4 days there was little to insignificant difference.
The 8 days in 2009 ranged from +1 to + 8 higher than corresponding days in 2010.
The 23 days in 2010 ranged from +1 to +12 higher than correspond days in 2009.
A good number of days in 2010 ranged in the
At no time in those 35 days have we had any significant run of days in the minus high single digits. Even then at no time has the temperature dropped below -6 or -7 for any length of time.
No way will sea ice or any ice form in these conditions.
So is this weather out of the ordinary or not? Memories have similar events in single years, but no one remembers a two year cycle.
The forecast is saying that temperatures could drop into the minus high single digits later this week. Until then we will receive more of the same cloudy drizzly weather.
Update: Seems the guys who get paid big bucks agree with my assessment of the climate.
1 comment:
I know (from records, not memory) that there were two very mild winters in Labrador in the late 1950s, but not in a row. There was a very cold year in between.
1956 and 58? 1957 and 59? Something like that.
Post a Comment