Now please don't think this is a thread to debate global warming because that isn't what I'm asking. What I'm asking is where you all live are your seasons all screwed up as much as they are in the Midwest.
It used to be that March came in like a lion and went out like a lamb. Now around here March is frozen tundra on the first and frozen tundra on the 31 st as well.
The last several years, the first day of spring has had snow or ice on the ground.
April and May have been no treasures lately either. In fact, the old plant your garden on Mother's Day' this year would have meant you would have killed your plants since it was still cold enough to freeze a June bug's kiester. If the June bug started showing up in May and June rather than July that is.
The summer has been fairly mild but I won't complain about that. Days in the low 80s or upper 70s means no air conditioning which means lower utility bills.
And now that it is mid-September there is no chill in the air around here. The temps are in the uppers 80s and the long range forecast shows that will be the case for several more weeks.
I remember having to wear a jacket in September don't you?
For the last three years we have had mild temperatures all the way to Thanksgiving. Oh I don't mean balmy. But still in the 40s and 50 doesn't make sense but there they have been.
As a kid I often remember crying because I had to wear a heavy coat for Halloween or trudge through deep snow. We haven't had a measurable snow in October for years.
The last several Christmases haven't even been that bad. Yes it has been cold and there has been snow. But I remember bone chilling temps and feet of snow all plowed against the curbs and sidewalks and I think I haven't seen that in six or more years.
Yes January is still a lousy month that we should do away with entirely but the Februaries have been as cold as the Januaries for the past several years. Weather patterns have been crazy too. We had a seven inch rain last January 21 st and a foot of snow in April. That isn't supposed to happen. Around here it doesn't just rain or snow when it rains or snows. It has to be a flood or a fifteen inch snow storm or they don't come at all.
We have had one of the coldest, the driest, the wettest and the snowiest months in Illinois history all within the last two years. Now how did that all happen all of a sudden?
And now full circle I ask the question again. Has there been a shift in our planet? Has something happened that no one in government will tell us about lest we get worried and start to panic?
I wonder if we have too many people on one side of the planet that is making our globe be off balance and hang incorrectly in space. Maybe all those people in China have the Earth wiggling through orbit rather than smoothly spinning.
Maybe it is all the South America immigrants coming into our country. That could be making that hemisphere too light and making the U.S. stay tilted away from the sun a little longer than in the past.
Again I am not interested in a debate on global warming or not. I'm just asking if it is just me or have we somehow gotten ourselves out of whack by about two months season wise.
The only thing I can see to do is when next January is over we officially call the next month January again. That at least will get us close to being seasonally correct.
There would be another plus to doing this. That means we would all get an extra month of life since the year 2010 would have thirteen months instead of twelve. Now who could disagree with that?
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