Nomehagan’s Weather Prognosticator
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“It looks like we are good until April,” my fellow walker and weather prognosticator said as I petted his dog.
“I can’t beleive we got to the middle of February with only a dusting of snow,” he continued. “I raked my yard over the weekend and started preparing my garden.”
I nodded, and we both continued our walk in opposite directions.
I enjoy being able to walk without ice and snow on the ground, but I am apprehensive about the weird weather that has kept us snow-free.
If we are snow-free, how will it impact the reservoirs?
Is this one weird year or the beginning phase of a new, less human-friendly climate?
As I complete my morning perambulation, I realize that I am overdressed. Having left before sunrise when it was in the mid-thirties, I dressed for the cold. It is now mid-forties and rising.
Jan and I always wanted part of our inheritance to leave our children and grandchildren with a livable world.
All we can leave then now is our eternal love.
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Spring’s First Weeping Willow Tree
Jan and I always found joy in the first sign of Spring.
Those signs could come anytime in an age of weird weather.
In Springfield and Teaneck, we had flower beds where the first daffodils would burst thru almost frozen ground to find the sun's warmth.
I often found them first but always let Jan be the first to see Spring.
This morning I saw the first yellowish hint in a weeping willow in Cranford despite freezing temperatures.
Four Point Five Degrees Celsius!
Estimated reading time: 1 minute, 18 secondsThirty-five days into 2023, my backyard’s temperature has been 8.1 degrees Fahrenheit above normal.
The Paris Agreement established a goal to hold warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Hopefully, our current warming trend will not last. But so far this winter, we have increased by 4.5 degrees Celsius.
Is anyone surprised about the lack of snow
and the weird weather?
My backyard and New York City have gone three hundred twenty-five (325) days since the last measurable snowstorm.
The latest day for the first snow was fifty years ago today.
According to the Gothamist, "50-year-old record for the latest arriving measurable snowfall for a winter season, set on Jan. 29, 1973. If the pattern lasts beyond Feb. 4, it'll be the longest recorded period the city has gone without snow."
