Posted on 01/03/2007 12:23:44 PM PST by presidio9
We're doomed.
We've just entered what is normally the coldest part of winter. (January and February) We'll see how long the warm weather holds.
I'm confused: All of these things sound like positives.
It's doubtful that they are typical spring-blooming cherries like you'd find in DC blooming, since they REQUIRE a certain number of hours of winter chilling and dormancy before blooming.
More likely they're Prunus subhirtella, which often blooms during winter mild spells anywhere from November to March.
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/factsheets/trees-new/prunus_subhirtella_autum.html
Algore in town?
Methinks the folks in Colorado, Kansas, et al. would love some global warming right about now.
"We're doomed."
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And it's all Bush's fault.
"New York City experienced its first snowless November and December for the first time since 1877"
It's all Grant's fault then.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ug18.html
With heating fuel at 2.32 a gallon, I am hoping for continued globial warming.
A general question: If leaves begin blooming, and then the winter sets in, will those particular branches bloom yet again in SPring, or not because the leaves had already sprouted?
Great minds .. etc. Here in SW Pa, some apples have shown signs of wanting to come out of dormancy ... I'm no horticulturalist, but I'd like to know that also.
"With heating fuel at 2.32 a gallon, I am hoping for continued globial warming."
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Same here...only in my case, it's the gas bill. Normally around this time of year I'm paying around $200. Just got my bill and it's $79. Global warming/El Nino is fine with me.
I have a 500 gallon tank. My last fuel bill was $780.
I would caution about attributing this to either El Nino or supposed AGW. This El Nino ended up being a dud and is already dissipating. Significantly, out West, we never experienced any El Nino characteristics (usually we experience them first and strongest). If anything, we are experiencing a crypto La Nina (cold, low elevation snow, etc).
Of further note, the PDO really wants to flip to negative phase (ala 1940 - 1976). What is being experienced back east (and in Western Europe) may be a sort of "calm before the storm" effect, a precursor to a very cold and wet couple of decades globally. We'll see.
I have some forsythia that have flowers out. That really is not unusual, I recall they often bloom during a warm spell during winter.
Tell the people of eastern Colorado, western Nebraska and western Kansas that it is global warming. They have about 20 feet of snow to contend with right now.
The world doesn't revolve around the east coast.
Actually I believe that weather patterns are cyclic in nature.
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