I think this is the beginnings of an economy based on perpetual growth and fossil fuel energy running headlong into geological energy constraints. Basically I see an undulatory downward path for the rest of my life. From here out, I think any rallies in our economic condition are going to be met with spiking commodity prices that knock us right back down.
Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Posts: 1126 Location: Central Texas
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 7:41 pm Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007-08
This winter has been very dry for Central Texas. We are about to go from moderate drought conditions to severe drought conditions.
See US Drought Monitor
I'm glad some of the folks in the SE US got some rain.
My garden will be small this year since my collected rainwater is nearly gone. Unless it rains soon...
I don't want to use the city's water for the garden. _________________ About my avatar: Guess.
Joined: Sep 14, 2004 Posts: 6547 Location: Rural Virginia
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 9:50 pm Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007-08
Any faint signs of winter seem to have ended here in central Virginia. About three weeks early. The nights are starting not to make it down to freezing, and that's the signal for things to start growing.
We had a total of 3 inches of snow this winter, or about 15 inches less than normal (although it's hard for me even to remember the last time we had normal winter snowfall).
Running very dry here. The great Southeast drought of 2007 continues into '08, with scary possibilities for the spring and summer.
I've either just planted or am about to plant 3,300 tree seedlings. It is essential that it rain, and rain soon. There's a chance for some on Tuesday. _________________ "Actually, humans died out long ago."
---Abused, abandoned hunting dog
"Things have entered a stage where the only change that is possible is for things to get worse."
---Me and my brother
Joined: Sep 14, 2004 Posts: 6547 Location: Rural Virginia
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:19 pm Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007-08
I am declaring winter 2007-08 over and starting a new thread: Spring Weather 2008. Please direct your posts there. _________________ "Actually, humans died out long ago."
---Abused, abandoned hunting dog
"Things have entered a stage where the only change that is possible is for things to get worse."
---Me and my brother
Joined: Dec 08, 2004 Posts: 1634 Location: Nez Perce Nation
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:22 am Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007-08
We had a high level of snow and rain but it never got too cold. This is good news as we've had a drought for the last two years that we've been here. There is still a lot of snow up on the prairie and of course the mountains but down in our little valley it is starting to look like spring.
The big creek is very high right now and you can hear it from everywhere on the property. In places there is water gushing out of the ground. We essentially live on a giant sponge; in the spring just stick in a straw and water bubbles up. _________________ "Modern Agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food."
-- Albert Bartlett
"It will be a dark time. But for those who survive, I suspect it will be rather exciting."
-- James Lovelock
Joined: Nov 16, 2007 Posts: 307 Location: Rural Western Idaho
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:31 am Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007-08
What is it about wind? Seriously ... even if this seems a little off-topic.
As humans we have a (generally) natural gut-level aversion to or at least caution in the darkness ... based in our roots back with sabre tooth tigers stalking us, no doubt. I know that about 80% of my patients with paranoia and/or anxiety report an increase as evening and night come on.
But wind ... what is it that makes so many of us (and many of our pets/farm animals) edgy? Probably the barometric shifts, I guess. Anyone else actually read anything or know anything about this?
We had a big wind last night, and although I thought I slept pretty well, I woke up this morning feeling tense and sore all over -- like I had been in "fight or flight" mode all night.
Ugh. Not in the mood to go to one of my offices and be the "country healing woman" today. Feel like going back to bed for about 4 more hours.
Thoughts? Seriously. Anyone have info on this phenomenon?
Thanks ... yawn.
Lumpy _________________ "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." Thomas Jefferson
Joined: Sep 17, 2006 Posts: 698 Location: No man's land
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:57 pm Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007-08
This is a long article covering the record warmth in Northern Europe over the winter. See link for details.
Quote:
Balmy winter breaks records in Europe's north, confusing wildlife, plants and meteorologists
By SARA SUNDELIUS - Associated Press Writer
2008-03-04 17:45:23 -
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Icebreakers left idle in ports. Insects crawling out of forest hideouts. Daffodils sprouting up from green lawns. Winter ended before it started in Europe's north, where record-high temperatures have left people wondering whether it's all a fluke or an ominous sign of a warming world. "It's the warmest winter ever," said John Ekwall of the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute.
LINK
_________________ "It is no measure of health to be deemed sane in an insane society" J. Krishnamurti
Joined: Apr 28, 2005 Posts: 3879 Location: West shore Lake Eire, MI, USA
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 3:56 pm Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007-08
Well after a very late start to fall/winter in mid-november last year we are actually suffering from a late spring start here in SE lower Michigan. We should be in the mid to upper thirties trending to low forties by the end of the month but here on the 4th we are back below freezing once again. after a two day melt, and it is predicted to stay below freezing into the weekend, if they havn't changed the forcast again when I wasn't watching _________________ Always appeal to a man's enlightened self interest, you can trust him to look out for himself honestly, It's when you appeal to his Honor or the Common Good that he stops paying attention.
Joined: Dec 27, 2004 Posts: 13065 Location: naive idiot fantasy world
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 5:04 pm Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007-08
PeakOiler, I'm further south than you, and our peaches haven't started blooming yet. Some fruit trees in the area are blooming, though. We got a nice rain when the front went through, then a freeze. Looks like we're in for more freezing tonight and later in the week. The pastures are beginning to come out of dormancy and many seedlings are coming up here and there. _________________ "...powerdown so soft and fluffy you'll think you're living in a pillow." - jboogy
Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Posts: 1126 Location: Central Texas
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:53 am Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007-08
Ludi wrote:
PeakOiler, I'm further south than you, and our peaches haven't started blooming yet. Some fruit trees in the area are blooming, though. We got a nice rain when the front went through, then a freeze. Looks like we're in for more freezing tonight and later in the week. The pastures are beginning to come out of dormancy and many seedlings are coming up here and there.
The light freeze the other night apparently wasn't long enough to do any significant damage to the early peach blossoms. I'll get a picture today and post it in the Citrus and Peach Trees thread later if possible.
Glad to hear you got some rain Ludi, we received less than 0.2" around here. We really need some significant rain, but the extended forecast doesn't look good. _________________ About my avatar: Guess.
Joined: Feb 01, 2006 Posts: 502 Location: Northern US
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:25 am Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007-08
Still winter for us! Should be around 40F but will be lucky to see 30F.
Just finished pushing 4" of snow off of the 1" of ice we received last night.
And the other day, it was almost 60F! Saw my first robins that day. _________________ "...the problem is today we have unknown unknowns."
Dominique Strauss-Kahn; IMF chief
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:31 pm Post subject: Re: Winter Weather 2007-08
I do not care about the temperatures now. It has been a normal winter this one, cold like I remember the old winters. But we only had one really good snow. Just one somewhere in January. Almost no rain or snow since then
Even if it's cold and cloudy, it does not rain, there is drought, I can feel it, and I can see the dry dirt outside. And they predict another hot summer with no rain here, the second year. Something is wrong with this precipitation thing.
Conspiracy theory : someone is doing this for population reduction
Or maybe not, but who cares, soon everybody will be importing wheat from the Moon !
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