The Rape of Winter
The boy child of Ecuador has lessened his very tight grasp of air masses on the North American continent. The reprieve was incipient in a large cyclone that terrorized the midwest with snows, ice, and floods. The desecent of the arctic air mass in Wisconsin was expedited by the storms peregrination to New England.
Far from impressive, the cold has been average at best for a typical January. Minong in Douglas County recorded the states coldest temperature of -27 degrees Fahrenheit. The cold air's trip over the unfrozen waters of Lake Superior created a lake effect snow event. The propinquity of Giles, Hurley, Gurney, and Saxon Falls to the windward side of Lake Superior left those towns with upwards of one foot of snow.
Interestingly, not since the great El Nino year of 1998 has California suffered such a tremendous loss of fruit due to cold temperatures. This El Nino is indeed matching up formidably with 1998's event. No definite conclusions can be drawn, but El Nino's have been occuring ere the National Weather Service began to be, yet there are no data that stack up with these two most recent events in terms of departure from the expected winter weather. Perhaps our warmer earth has provoked the seemingly irascible little boy into a death grip on the cold air, no longer allowing even a brief furlough back to a normal winter.
Hope for the hippie earth lovers like me is entrusted to the winter sport enthusiasts and the people whom allow their indulgence. The pockets of the businesses and industies affected by the rape of winter might just be deep enough to gain the attention of some august congressman with a pecuniary interest in the matter. If he can rally his congressman friends around his plight perhaps the square legislative wheels can finally be kicked and beaten into motion and a few decades later the law can finally force the rabble into action and eventually the rabble will realize big business is the real problem and force congress to stop turining a blind-eye to big business, and after the paperwork settles and the glaciers are gone the United States will have finally addressed GW.
And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
-Alexander Pope
Far from impressive, the cold has been average at best for a typical January. Minong in Douglas County recorded the states coldest temperature of -27 degrees Fahrenheit. The cold air's trip over the unfrozen waters of Lake Superior created a lake effect snow event. The propinquity of Giles, Hurley, Gurney, and Saxon Falls to the windward side of Lake Superior left those towns with upwards of one foot of snow.
Interestingly, not since the great El Nino year of 1998 has California suffered such a tremendous loss of fruit due to cold temperatures. This El Nino is indeed matching up formidably with 1998's event. No definite conclusions can be drawn, but El Nino's have been occuring ere the National Weather Service began to be, yet there are no data that stack up with these two most recent events in terms of departure from the expected winter weather. Perhaps our warmer earth has provoked the seemingly irascible little boy into a death grip on the cold air, no longer allowing even a brief furlough back to a normal winter.
Hope for the hippie earth lovers like me is entrusted to the winter sport enthusiasts and the people whom allow their indulgence. The pockets of the businesses and industies affected by the rape of winter might just be deep enough to gain the attention of some august congressman with a pecuniary interest in the matter. If he can rally his congressman friends around his plight perhaps the square legislative wheels can finally be kicked and beaten into motion and a few decades later the law can finally force the rabble into action and eventually the rabble will realize big business is the real problem and force congress to stop turining a blind-eye to big business, and after the paperwork settles and the glaciers are gone the United States will have finally addressed GW.
And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.
-Alexander Pope
posted by Paul at 11:43 PM
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