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Originally Posted by kazbates
The climate differences that people experience around the world are very intriguing. It has been cooler than usual (than in the past 6 years) here in Virginia. It's weather like this that makes the thought of winter bearable for me. The weather has been gorgeous and we've had just the right amount of rain, but just a little further north in New York, people are complaining about the increased amounts of rain fall. Yet, two summers ago, it was excruciatingly hot here and the rain was almost non-existent. 
I don't have enough information to understand the truth behind global warming  , but the differences that occur in the weather from year to year are very interesting to me. |
It's one reason that I really prefer the term Global Climate Disruption rather than Global Warming. The jet stream is being pushed out of its normal track (for one thing) or what we consider to be the normal track. That is making for some seriously strange weather. There are a lot of other factors, and I don't want to over simplify it, but if you look at the graphs of the average temperature over the past few thousand years, you can see we are in deep caca.
I'm also sitting in one of the areas that has had next to no rain (the lakes are lowering at about 1 foot each month) and where the temp has averaged about 100 for the past month. Everyone here has taken to putting out water for the wildlife because the streams that normally flow are all dried up. It's just an oven here.