I live about an hour outside Reno, Nevada. Yesterday, on my way to church I drove through snowflurries. As I greeted friends, I commented, "How about this lovely spring weather. It's caused by the Al Gore effect." I received a lot of laughter with my corny routine, except for one couple who I suspect to be closet liberals. Neither of them laughed, the husband looked puzzled, and the wife replied, "I don't get it."
Definition for "The Al Gore Effect": Any unusual weather event, especially weather normally associated with colder temperatures.
I now measure the intensity of cold storms in “Algores”, a sort of equivalent of the Richter Scale for earthquakes. Like, the nor’easter that hit New England over the weekend measured at least 17 Algores.