global warming? Snow in Texas!

STANG KILLA SS · Posted: Feb 23, 2010 11:42 am Post subject: global warming? Snow in Texas!

wtf? sunday it was sunny and 72 and i almost went to the lake, today we get a blizzard
i remember growing up it would snow once every decade here.

goofyboy · Posted: Feb 23, 2010 11:48 am Post subject:

take that central texas... too bad you couldn't keep that crap up that way. it is supposed to snow here in Katy in a couple of hours. this sucks.

Nooga678 · Posted: Feb 23, 2010 11:50 am Post subject:

This is where a non-scientist will come in and tell you that global warming causes extreme climate changes and doesn't mean that it will be warmer everywhere.

Neognosis · Ladies Man Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 17617 City: Webster

That's because meltwater increasing in the northern atlantic has diluted the salt water just enough to change the temp of the water returning south. Or so they say.

Or maybe this has nothing to do with it and it is el nino or somethign else. Anyway:

Currents involved in "deep-water formation" are particularly important for climate. In winter, surface cooling causes water to become more dense. (While fresh-water that is cooled starts to expand at temperatures below 4 C, salt-water continues to compress all the way down to its freezing point of -2 C.) In areas where evaporation exceeds precipitation, the resulting rise in salinity also increases density. When the surface water becomes denser than the underlying water, "convective overturning" occurs and the dense surface water mixes downwards. In certain places this downward mixing can occasionally extend all the way to the bottom, even in deep oceans. The dense, deep water thus formed spreads out over the whole ocean. As a result, when downward mixing takes place at high latitudes it creates a circulation pattern in which warm water from tropical and subtropical regions moves poleward, surrenders heat to the atmosphere, cools and sinks, and flows back towards the equator. The net result is a transport of heat poleward.

hco · Posted: Feb 23, 2010 12:13 pm Post subject:

global CLIMATE change.

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

You should go try that dry suit and see how it works. You could do something very rare. Polar Bear Club type wakeboarding run in February in Texas. Wink

An interesting thing I keep hearing this year is...

(Insert place) hasn't seen this kind of (insert weather phenomenum) since (insert year).

Everytime I hear that I think...

Wait a minute, if we are truly experiencing Climate Change, shouldn't the weather and overall climate in areas be different than they ever have been before?

If a cell went through a cycle of A-B-C-D-A where it returned to its original form in some sort of cycle, what would that be called?

Neognosis · Ladies Man Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 17617 City: Webster

Are lizzards falling out of the trees again?

STANG KILLA SS · Posted: Feb 23, 2010 12:37 pm Post subject:

STANG KILLA SS · Posted: Feb 23, 2010 2:43 pm Post subject:

HAHAHAHhahahahaha

saw this on the way home and had to stop and snap a pic!

Big Al · Posted: Feb 23, 2010 2:47 pm Post subject:

Everyone I know further north keeps telling me about the snow. I almost want it to snow here, but it most likely won't. It will come as far as an hour north of me, then stop. Confused

This winter has been crazy though, WAY more days that were WAY colder than usual.

I'm an hourish south of downtown H-town, by the way.

howabouttheiris · Addict Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 677 City: Austin, TX

If this is global warming, then I need to buy some more aerosol cans.

We, here in Atlantic Canada, have watched storm after storm pound the NE USA and miss us to the south.

I have shovelled my drive 2 times this entire winter (I gave up on hand shovelling last year and spent over $300 on snow removal). 3C/34F here today.