Thread: Its snowing, and i mean snowing

Originally Posted by dragonwagon

Yesterday morning, Dargo High Plains. Beautiful

You were not far from me on Sunday. I spent most of the day around Humphrey River, Water Spur and Tea Tree Range where it started snowing early morning and was still snowing around 8pm when we left. No pictures yet as my camera like everything else I took with with me is wet, muddy or both.

Ian

it explanis why it called around my way

Originally Posted by simonr23

global warming is what will/would/could cause an ice-age. i forget the details now, but a few years ago i studied up on it for an assignment. it's something to do with the melting ice caps release cool water into certain ocean currents and it has an effect on evaporation or something, which effects clouds-rainfall-sun penetration,etc. one of those visious(sp?) cycle setups. i'm sure someone here can elaborate and correct my erors.

i still wish it would snow here in adelaide though.

IIRC the melting of glaciers feeding huge amounts of fresh water into the North Atlantic was diluting the salt levels in the major deep ocean current that runs from the South through the North Atlantic.

This current feeds a lot of warm water north and it keeps Europe's weather temperate. By changing the salt levels in the current it changed its behaviour (can't remember how now, think it ran deeper due to lower salt levels) and so the current stopped feeding this warm water so far north.
As a consequence, Europe starts to freeze over, voila, a mini ice age.
It was proposed this was a natural cycle, ice ages are anyway, we were just speeding it up with our greenhouse gasses.

Snow is cold. Snow is wet. Snow is a PIA. Try living through a winter in the USA & Canada snow belts and you will loathe and hate snow to the greatest depth of human feelings. Snow affects all aspects of life in these areas, closes roads, schools, businesses, social events, etc. Makes extra work for the health system with illnesses, injuries, frostbite, hypothermia. I don't know anyone amongst friends and acquaintances in these regions who likes snow. One friend in Yonkers, NY, told me that in the 2005-6 winter there was not one working day from late November to mid March that 100% of his staff were able to get to work, and when they did, they have to shovel snow from the doors, vehicle gates, and driveways to open the shop.

SNOW = FUN

Well since getting back from the UK its done nothing but rain here in WA but I did see snow for the first time in the UK (Warwickshire West Midlands) see below




Adam

Great photo's everyone!

But see we dont HAVE to live in the snow for weeks on end... we go for a play

We're thining of taking the kids to the snow (probably just Mt Buffalo.. cost) during the school holidays (twins 5 and daughter 2) for a play

Hi girls & guys

this morning was the first time I put a jumper on to go to work. It was 5 dec on my verandah at 4.30a.m. but......this afternoon is lovely.


Mrs ho har