Northerners: How you handling the weather?

I would imagine, especially if you had a long trip involving stairs and darkness.

 

I can't believe my Honda Civic just drove about 500 feet in 5 inches of unplowed snow. I'm really impressed

 

Took me an hour and 15 in my Jeep Patriot.

Didnt use the 4 wheel drive though....

*flexes muscle*

 

more on the way tonight.

ugg..

 

Awww that looks so pretty!

 

Where's the (*)(*)(*)(*)ing global warming Al? You said we'd be a greenhouse by now you lying bastard.

 

the arctic is warming and spreading its cold air further south.

an increase of arctic air from -50 F to -40 F, is warming.

 

I am not even in the "North"....probably considered central. Yet, it has been unseasonably cold and wet.

More snow, Ice, and below freezing temperatures than I can remember. How am I dealing with it?

Working more to pay the heating bills...Shoveling more...and driving far more carefully.

 

You realize that doesn't make any sense right?

 

warmer air rises and travels further than colder air.

 

You're phrasing it wrong. It's not that Arctic air is "spreading", it's that warmer air displaces colder air and the colder air moves around, in this case a ways southward. This isn't anything unusual really, if anything it reminds me of what winter used to be, before everything got all warm for the better part of a decade. At least, where I am.

 

warmer arctic air means it travels more and further

 

ya, I hear people complain about any colder temps then I remind them this is what it was like nearly every winter in our youth( I haven't experienced a -40 winter in 14yrs, nor even a -30c day in that time)...they ponder that about it for a second or two and then agree...I don't miss -30c or -40c temps but to say Canadian winters aren't getting warmer is ludicrous...climate scientists said change would be noticed in the north first and they were right...

 

About 3" of snow Sunday night.

Now a possible 8" tomorrow night.

ugg.

snow twice a week has now become a regular occurance in NYC.

 

Our coldest temperature this winter is -20, and it has been -16 to -18 several times. Those temperatures are notable because once or twice, they occured when the ground was bare. We are having a drought with only about 13 inches of snow this winter. Only two years ago, we in the Missouri River valley had one of our worst floods in history. Some of our land was under water for five months. Plains weather changes from one year to the next.

 

cross country skiing was great today.
And as an added bonus, I'm working on a project headed up by a guy from India, who tells everyone to work from home whenever it snows.
I'm a New Englander who is used to driving to work in blizzards, this a treat, working from my kitchen table, coffee on one side, fridge on the other. Beats driving in the krap....