Snow in Atacama Desert
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Yep, and then there's those folks that flat out deny that any climate change is happening.
Alone in the area where I live there's been plenty of changes in climate: Winters have become milder, for instance, and Summers are either cold or hot, and Spring and Fall almost seem to have disappeared altogether. When I was a child, every Winter was filled with snow ... I had to have snow boots, for Christsakes ... and nowadays, we're lucky if we get any snow in a Winter ... sometimes it comes in late Spring now (there's a funny farmer's proverb here for that: If it snows on Easter, Christmas isn't too far away!) ... I've seen Summers with barely a warm day at all, and Summers with searing heat at 42 °C, but when I was younger, the seasons appeared to be more in tune with what's expected from them.
Today, I mused that there hasn't been a proper thunderstorm in ages around here, maybe 1 year, maybe two, not one effing thunderstorm!! One thunderclap, perhaps it pours for a couple of seconds, and that's it!! That's sort of Mediterranean weather ...
Alone in the area where I live there's been plenty of changes in climate: Winters have become milder, for instance, and Summers are either cold or hot, and Spring and Fall almost seem to have disappeared altogether. When I was a child, every Winter was filled with snow ... I had to have snow boots, for Christsakes ... and nowadays, we're lucky if we get any snow in a Winter ... sometimes it comes in late Spring now (there's a funny farmer's proverb here for that: If it snows on Easter, Christmas isn't too far away!) ... I've seen Summers with barely a warm day at all, and Summers with searing heat at 42 °C, but when I was younger, the seasons appeared to be more in tune with what's expected from them.
Today, I mused that there hasn't been a proper thunderstorm in ages around here, maybe 1 year, maybe two, not one effing thunderstorm!! One thunderclap, perhaps it pours for a couple of seconds, and that's it!! That's sort of Mediterranean weather ...
