1😷th Cat on Nostr: Growing up and living most of my life in #novascotia #canada, I've really noticed how ...
Growing up and living most of my life in #novascotia #canada, I've really noticed how the weather patterns have changed. Not just that the winter is shorter, milder and less snow.
We used to get real "winter" weather starting in December. January we had a "January thaw", which is when the prevailing weather patterns broke down for a week or two and we had a lot of snow melt. Then the cold weather returned until March.
Now, and the last 2 years in particular, we might not even get winter weather until February, if at all.
We also used to get the storms tracking west to East, so we'd get the weather that Ontario and Quebec had, about a day or two later. This was due to the jet stream with its "normal" behaviour of primarily a west to east flow.
Now, climate change has disrupted the pattern, and so the JS now has a jagged up and down pattern. This pattern causes the "polar vortexes" that reach deep down to the southern US. The same pattern results in us now getting most storms tracking up the eastern seaboard of the US.
I worry for where we are headed. And for anyone who delies CC, I say - look out the damned window!
#nswx #climatechange #climatecrisis
We used to get real "winter" weather starting in December. January we had a "January thaw", which is when the prevailing weather patterns broke down for a week or two and we had a lot of snow melt. Then the cold weather returned until March.
Now, and the last 2 years in particular, we might not even get winter weather until February, if at all.
We also used to get the storms tracking west to East, so we'd get the weather that Ontario and Quebec had, about a day or two later. This was due to the jet stream with its "normal" behaviour of primarily a west to east flow.
Now, climate change has disrupted the pattern, and so the JS now has a jagged up and down pattern. This pattern causes the "polar vortexes" that reach deep down to the southern US. The same pattern results in us now getting most storms tracking up the eastern seaboard of the US.
I worry for where we are headed. And for anyone who delies CC, I say - look out the damned window!
#nswx #climatechange #climatecrisis