Migration north

We arrived home in BC on the 25th. When we were coming through Ca. there were alot of RV's headed south. Spring break???

Arrived home at Richards Landing on St. Joseph Island in Ontario today. Lots of snow on the ground and snowing hard today. Not happy.

I think this is much too narrow of logic. The polar ice caps are still melting at an alarming rate. This is changing the salinity of the oceans, thus the air currents. We are in transition, nothing will be normal for a long time. For those that snowbird, they will have to change their patterns and locations just like all the other birds will.

This is evidently what is going on. The Arctic "air mass" is breaking into pieces (the polar atmospheric waves {Rossby Waves} are detaching huge blobs the size of half continents) which drift down unfortunately over North America (some meteorologists are popularizing these massive cold air detachments as "....polar vortices..." ). There is A polar vortex; it used to be a single large-scale cyclone circling both the Arctic (2 low pressure centers) and Antarctic (a single low pressure center). However, it (the northern vortex) has now broken apart into 4, 5, 6, 7+ pieces as the Arctic region warms alarmingly. Haave you seen the northern Alaska temperatures in winter over the past several years? (one detachment of which seems persistent over North America during winter). North America (the US territory) I think, only makes up ~3% of the Earth's total area. So, in light of this, who cares if the US is experiencing exceptionally cold winters ? Statistically, the US land mass experiencing this exceptional cold is so miniscule, in the grand scheme things, it wouldn't contribute much to the sum-total land mass warming/cooling.

Science:

All science (every discipline: medicine, astrophysics, biology, climatology, etc, etc) research is always open to new discovery (ie. old theories fall as new are proven...). You publish reasearch showing x, someone else, 3, 20 years later publishes research showing y. The only constant in scientific research is change over time ;)

Brutal cold for past several days up here. Yesterday 3F/16F; this morning 11F. Anyone returning to the Northeast before May must be very, very desperate :p

I have been traveling between Phoenix and Tucson on business for the last two weeks, often twice a day. The ratio of Northbound vs. South is well over 20:1.

And this as the Midwest is still getting hammered

This weekend (March 28 & 29)we have more leaving than any other time. Reasons stated are to be home for Easter Weekend, Getting home to complete income taxes and for those renting not wanting to pay another months rent. Soon it should be rather quiet & peaceful and the weather is perfect every day, mid 80's.

John&Joey wrote:

silversand wrote:
(extremes: the norm for the rest of our lives)...

I think this is much too narrow of logic. The polar ice caps are still melting at an alarming rate. This is changing the salinity of the oceans, thus the air currents. We are in transition, nothing will be normal for a long time. For those that snowbird, they will have to change their patterns and locations just like all the other birds will.

Of course the science could be all off too leaving a bunch of people looking like silly hens.

Remember if coming to Florida they 'outlawed" the use of the term "climate Change" in any talk or correspondence in their government. We call the law the head in the sand law, it redefines stupid.

silversand wrote:
(extremes: the norm for the rest of our lives)...

I think this is much too narrow of logic. The polar ice caps are still melting at an alarming rate. This is changing the salinity of the oceans, thus the air currents. We are in transition, nothing will be normal for a long time. For those that snowbird, they will have to change their patterns and locations just like all the other birds will.

Of course the science could be all off too leaving a bunch of people looking like silly hens.

The MASSIVE continent-sized pool of Siberia-like frigid air stretches this moment from Saskatoon, SK (Canada) all the way down to just north of Jacksonville, Florida, and out just past the Atlantic Coasline of North America.

I'm afraid this will be the climate regime for roughly this same region up till mid April. Though, the extent south of this massive pool of Arctic air will probably only reach ~~North Carolina during the next several Arctic invasion-weeks. Looking at the long-term experimental (which has been absolutely correct for this entire winter, by the way, climate-casting at the continental scale, remember; not at the meso-scale!), the enormous air mass (along with the northern branch jet) will abruptly retreat far north somewhere from April 8th to April 15th, where we will abruptly warm up into summer-like conditions (extremes: the norm for the rest of our lives)...

Up to 23 Degs C today in Southern Alberta. Blue Skies and hot sun on our backs. Please let it last longer this time than a couple weeks ago!!

pawatt wrote:
Agreed, I don't like below 50 degrees anywhere. Supposed to be 85 here today.

The car really wanted to turn back this morning.