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I used to live in SD, snow? Where in SD?

Yeah, the weather has been weird the last couple of years, although I recall a particularly snowy winter in TN four years ago. I honestly think it is too soon for people to be certain that the climate is definitely changing. As a matter of fact, it was so extremely cold in the late '70s that I recall serious discussion of a new ice age! Around here, we recently had some record-setting warm temps for January, breaking records that had been set decades ago by one or two degrees. But then, that just shows that all those years ago (1920s?), it was also unseasonably warm. We also know from the fossil record that earth's climate has changed dramatically over the millennia. So even if we are in a period of climate change, that doesn't mean we human beings made it happen.

I know Mike. I used to live there.

Morticia wrote:I used to live in SD, snow? Where in SD?

Up until a couple days ago I lived in the Normal Heights/Kensington area, now I'm down by Lemon Grove. Lemon Grove bills itself as the best climate on Earth.

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That was actually hail we had but about 1 inch collected on the ground. Enough to make a small snowman and throw some snowballs at the dog. As you know, it's not unusual for some of the surrounding communities in the higher elevations to get snow but, from what I read, there's only been three or four recorded flurries in the city. It's 80° right now. A bit higher than the norm.

Halloween Convo: We normally see stuff around late August early September around here and Christmas shows up around the same time(if not earlier in some places)

Climate Convo: Right now it's about 40F outside here in northern New Jersey. We've had a few snow storms and I'm about done with snow for the year. Though while it gets tiring I don't think I could move someplace without the seasons and the snow.

Pumpkin_Man wrote:I would like to see energy alternatives for automobiles become practical.

Something new on the horizon. I've been reading about graphene supercapacitors recently. While they've been around for a bit they've been prohibitively expensive to create. A recent happy little accident in the lab may have come up with a way to make them cheap and use them with our current electronics. If testing proves out, this can change the world. A few seconds to charge your phone, a few minutes to charge your car.

That's awesome Nevermore hopefully we see that come to fruition.

NeverMore wrote:

Morticia wrote:I used to live in SD, snow? Where in SD?

Up until a couple days ago I lived in the Normal Heights/Kensington area, now I'm down by Lemon Grove. Lemon Grove bills itself as the best climate on Earth.

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That was actually hail we had but about 1 inch collected on the ground. Enough to make a small snowman and throw some snowballs at the dog. As you know, it's not unusual for some of the surrounding communities in the higher elevations to get snow but, from what I read, there's only been three or four recorded flurries in the city. It's 80° right now. A bit higher than the norm.

Okay rub it in , we got 6 inch of snow last week, and it's been raining, flurrying and sleeting ever since, Highs in the thirties and the night in the twenties, UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Witchy hang in there I think it's going to start getting warmer soon. I hope so because the temps here are similar to yours and while I'm pretty good about the cold I am growing tired of it.