LP on his first bike ride of the season
The markers of spring are as follows here:
-Daylight savings time
-Canada goose back
-Temps consistently above freezing, preferably around 10 C or so
-Last remnants of snow on its way out.
We have somehow all achieved those within the last few days.
Winter is over, even though speaking of winter for the short, very not at all terrible season we had might be a little preposterous.
I for the most part hate winter (there, I said it), and the return of spring is always a fully appreciated soul-warming affair. On a selfish level, I could very much live with this, and probably wouldn't even mind if we ditched the winters altogether.
I know they'll always be fluke years, both in terms of horribleness (2008), and extreme mildness (this year). I know that global warming is supposed to happen slowly, and
shouldn't be measured based on a short period only. But there is something else, too.
I see a striking difference in the winters from when I first moved here in 1994 to the ones we now have. The trend really seems to have accelerated in the last few years, too. I mean, despite a normal human tendency to proclaim thruth from unverified/partial facts, something is very clearly happening. We keep breaking record upon record, reaching new, up until recently unconceivable milestones. We keep having milder and milder winters, while other places never used to cold and snow might have to settle with them happening more frequently. Even if i'm not a winter person at all, I have this uneasiness in my throat when asking: what if the scientists were wrong about the timeline of all of this?
I see a striking difference in the winters from when I first moved here in 1994 to the ones we now have. The trend really seems to have accelerated in the last few years, too. I mean, despite a normal human tendency to proclaim thruth from unverified/partial facts, something is very clearly happening. We keep breaking record upon record, reaching new, up until recently unconceivable milestones. We keep having milder and milder winters, while other places never used to cold and snow might have to settle with them happening more frequently. Even if i'm not a winter person at all, I have this uneasiness in my throat when asking: what if the scientists were wrong about the timeline of all of this?
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Even in the mid-1990s, the winters weren't what they were 10 years before. When I was a kid, we always had a white Chritmas in Montreal with lots of snow to play in, but as a teen it was not every year that we had snow at the end of December. And it keeps getting worse every year...
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