I swear this weather is just plain WEIRD! All the rain in CA, big time snow in AZ. Here in my part of the Ohio Valley, we are in the 70’s. My Spring flowers are coming up, only to be wiped out when we go back down to the 20s tomorrow. We also have had too much rain, which has caused numerous mudslides, and 2 floods in as many weeks. Wheeling, WV was under water twice, although the 2nd one wasn’t nearly as bad. We are supposed to get another 3 inches or so of rain tonight, so that may change things. With the major floods back in September, many people here have been left with nothing. I just pray we don’t get enough for more major flooding.
Is anything weird going on with anyone else’s weather?
We’ve had beautiful, springlike 70+ degree weather here in Atlanta… we’re about to plummet about 20 degrees this weekend. Just started pouring a short bit ago… :roll:
Last year my daffodils pretended to be snowdrops on three separate occasions.
I’m actually surprised there hasn’t been more comment here on the weather in the US, I find myself hoping that all those people whom I only know from this virtual community are OK., as we’ve been getting some coverage of your weather in addition to that of the storms that have killed up to 20 people in Northern Europe in the last week or so.
Here in the NJ we go from 30 to 50 in one day. 
I’ve been thinking a lot about this the last weeks or so. I’m surprised that people hasn’t talked more about this here in Sweden as well. We have had terrible storms down on the south west coast, and pretty bad ones up here as well, which is very unusual. We rarely have any hard weather at all in Central Sweden, once every 6 or 7 years there comes winds strong enough to blow a sign or two and some roof plates down but very rarely more than that. These storms have been a bit worse. Down south they were strong enough to crack trees and stuff. In addition to that, it’s in the middle of winter and there is not a trace of snow, no where, at least not around here. We usually have quite a bit of snow at this time of the year and it’s always well below freezing. Now it’s not even cold.
This is starting to freak me out, and the fact that our media’s don’t even talk about it (they talk about the storms but not the strange weather in general) just makes me more nervous about it.
My Grandma’s rosebush bloomed in December of 1961. But, yeah, the weather is doing some odd things (doesn’t it always?). It froze here, the other day, with floodwaters still on the ground. Yesterday there were tornado warnings for the next county over.
Evidently, in honor of my birth!
Perhaps the end is near. Perhaps we should repent.
Last Thursday it was 34. Today it’s -44. Now that’s a swing state!
Contemplata apacolypsum?
–Jacobius
We’ve had such strange snow this year too. Every time it snows, it snows all day and then rains all night. At Christmas time it froze just afterwards, and brought down five huge Sitka Spruce. (Which fell only about twenty or thirty feet from the house, all together.)
I’m wondering, too, why no widespread concern. Is it truly just a flukey weather year? Seems that, if I can notice a trend towards changing weather in my relatively short lifetime, there’s a big problem.
Jennie
Yesterday, a fellow storm spotter and I were discussing whether it would be more of a storm or a rain event, and we both voted for rain. Fort Smith had both a severe thunderstorm warning and a flash flood warning last night, so I guess we would have been right either way.
By the way, we had more than twice our normal January rainfall by the 5th of the month!
I think they’ve been saying that Reno has had more snow than it’s had since 1916 (the local weatherman said maybe even since 1912 and beyond). It’s been pretty weird, here, I’d say. There are few things about Reno weather that you can count on (other than irregularity), but lack of precipitation is usually one of them. Lolly could prolly back me up on that.
Oh, and I heard on the news that we supposedly got 52 inches, for those wondering. I don’t know how accurate that is, but there are certainly drifts in my yard that go up to my chest (albeit the higher ones).
(edited to add snowfall, which I had forgotten)
After a week or so of good hard rain stormin’ it got up in the mid 60s with clear sunshine yesterday where I work. I walk a few miles everyday at lunch there and was warm yesterday. So I brought my lighter jacket and sunglasses for today. It was 42 degrees and foggy for the whole day!
cunctis diebus terrae sementis et messis frigus et aestus aestas et hiemps nox et dies non requiescent
Very fitting quote, Walden
“All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, shall not cease.”
The integrety of the ozone layer has been compromised.
The magnetic poles are currently reversing and have undergone tremendous change in the southern hemisphere.
Mamma Gaia is pissed!
It’s 7am on the New England coast. It’s 58 degrees. The wind is howling in from the southeast and we expect to be in the 20’s tonight. We get this sort of weather swing a lot.
Folks often talk about global warming. While warming is probably at the root of all this, the effects that we all see are more accurately called global climate change. As the planet warms, weather patterns shift. Jet streams move around and send storms and systems to new places. Put another way, we’re having a very abrupt, huge planetary weather swap. The wierd weather you have today actually belongs to your neighbors 500 or 1000 miles away. Your weather has gone off to someone else who probably doesn’t like it as much as you did. Oh well.
Today it is cold and rainy again, so I’m less paranoid.
But I’m still schizophrenic, dammit.