Posted on 08/03/2015 12:17:52 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
BUFFALO, NY - "It's not unprecedented, but it is weird when you think about it," said Storm Team 2 Meteorologist Patrick Hammer, when remarking on the snow piles that still exists near Central Terminal on the Queen City's east side.
The snow was piled there following the "Snowvember" storm which occurred 8 months ago.
Today, despite it being late July, two snow piles remain, although hidden in plain sight.
That's because to anyone unfamiliar with their real composition, the snow piles looks more like a non-descript earthen berms.
(Excerpt) Read more at wgrz.com ...
And the problem with this pile is what????
Lol! Not lies. To them just further proof of agw. Or something.
“The near solid ice, nearly ten feet high in some spots, can be seen if one were to dig away about one foot of soil which covers the pile, due to a long, slow melting process….."That pile of snow is like a glacier," explained Hammer. "It's very dense and it's covered in dirt and garbage …
So, if they’re still around when the next snow season arrives, Buffalo can start its very own glacier . . .
Did they find any dead winos in the pile yet?
This is how glaciers start... previous year snows don’t melt completely.
Obviously it’s because of global warming!
Because we always freeze to death when we have the oven open.... / sarc
At first, only a tiny amount of snow survives the winter. Usually in deep crevices or in very large piles such as this one here in Buffalo.
Each winter, more snow and ice get dumped on top and slowly, very slowly, the remaining snow and ice gets compacted and gets harder to melt the next summer. The process takes hundreds upon hundreds of years. But eventually, we get to the point where most of North America is is covered under sheets of ice.
Then the process reverses.
We happen to only be between ice ages right now. Whether this is the beginning of a new one remains to be seen but sooner or later, we are bound to have another ice age, just as we have had ice ages in the past.
Another ice age is coming. Regardless of the "global warming" baloney the nutcases keep preaching to us.
But whether this little pile of dirty August snow in Buffalo is a harbinger that the next ice age is beginning, or simply the next Maunder Minimum, this is a very slow process. If the next big Ice Age is truly coming, we'll have hundreds of years to prepare for it and those of us living today need not worry - other than having our heating and snow plowing bills start to go up.
It’s the beginning of a new Glacier!!!!!
I'm glad I won't live to see it. Ice over Manhattan and Chicago. Much of the Great Plains converted from the most fertile land in the world to tundra. Europe only habitable in refuges in Southern Spain, Italy and Greece.
Southerners will not be welcoming displaced Northerners with open arms. It will be a very dark, ugly time.
And the Pope and Bishops are worried about global warming. Sheesh!
Pinging Kart for the prepper goodness therein.
Indeed, we could live with a little warming.Coastal cities would take a hit, but it's nothing compared to trying to survive on a mile-high mountain of ice moving through the north.
Warmer temps would ultimately be good for crops, as you'd get longer growing seasons. Nothing grows on an ice pack.
Not sure about that. Supposedly the Younger Dryas period may have occured in as little as twenty years.
Such Ice house were once very common. A lava tube even here in New Mexico can have ice in it all year round.
Yep.
That's Buffalo all right.
Thank-you for this. I just googled ice caves in New Mexico. Wonderful.
“This is how glaciers start... previous year snows don’t melt completely.”
Exactly. And civilizations die when climates cool significantly.
A cooling climate would potentially devastate agriculture.
The Milankovitch Cycles.
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