Has the climate changed in the past 10 years where you live?

[Quixote1818]

This is more about storms and drought than temperatures.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. I have no idea

I've been here almost 10 years now, but the weather has been different every year. :shrug:

[MonkeyFunk]

2. yes

daily, sometimes every few hours.

[Quixote1818]

3. Earlier today it changed from dry to wet within a fraction of a second!

Amazing! :wow:

On edit: I changed the wording from "weather" to "climate". Now no one will know what we are talking about here. Thanks for pointing out the poor grammar.

[MonkeyFunk]

5. heheh

sorry for being a smartass.

[mcctatas]

4. It seems like winter starts later, we get less snow, but there

is about a month long time with record cold temps. In spring, there are crazy fluctuations in temp (ex; today record high of 85, expected to be back at 60 tomorrow during the day and 40's overnite),summer, we get record high's violent storms with tornado force winds but no funnel clouds...and this is central WI...not friggin normal!:scared:

[FloridaJudy]

6. The weather here has always sucked

Ridiculously hot for 6+ months of the year, and expect hurricanes.

But the last decade and a half we've been plagued with fierce droughts, wild-fires, and drying up lakes and streams.

[Forkboy]

7. I'm in New England...how could I tell?

If you don't like the weather in New England...wait ten minutes.

[beltanefauve]

14. Formally from New England

and I gotta agree about the weather, but I've seen other changes. The Canadian Geese, once migrant birds, now stick around all year long and crowd out other birds. And I've seen Arctic terns in the Boston Public Garden before, too.

[zanne]

25. Peregrine Falcon eggs three weeks early this year.

We have a pair of Peregrines that we can watch online--they nest in the same place every year. This year, the eggs came three weeks early. There were four of them, and only one of them hatched. Sad. Also, NH has never seen so much flooding. We never used to worry about floods. Now we do.

[Screwfly]

8. No weather change in Arizona

we've been in a perpetual state of drought since 1988 :grr:

[Quixote1818]

16. Don't you mean 1998?

It seems everything I have heard is that the drought started in the southwest in 1998 and if you look at the SNOTEL data for several places in Arizona, there were some very wet years in the early 90's. I just looked at several weather stations and 91, 92, 93 and 95 were all above average rainfall years.


http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/cgibin/wygraph-multi.pl?state=AZ&wateryear=2007&stationidname=09s11s-HANNAGAN%20MEADOWS

[MadBadger]

9. Other.

I let the scientists do the science because I have no fuckin Idea.

[Art_from_Ark]

10. No major increase in storms here (Tokyo Metro),

although we did get a little bit of marble-sized hail not too long ago (very rare around here). But the winters have definitely been getting warmer. Old-timers have told me there used to be icicles hanging from eaves in some winters, but I haven't seen a single icicle in the decade I've been here. And snow used to be powdery, but now, when it does fall (which is rare), it is always slushy.

[Matsubara]

11. Things haven't changed much in Fukuoka.

I noticed you guys had the first snowless winter in ages there. We got about the usual amount. It was a milder-than-average winter overall, but then last summer seemed cooler than average here. We had very few 30+ celsius nights here last summer, most would have been bearable for most people with a fan (but me being a San Fran expat, I need my nights colder to sleep, so I used the A/C).

As for the the years 2004~2006, which we spent in San Francisco, I could not feel an appreciable difference from a decade ago. Still nice in fall, wet in winter, cool and foggy in summer...

Maybe marine climates are less affected...

My dad, who lives in El Paso, reported that last winter was one of the consistently coldest in memory. Not the deep-freezes, but just consistently cold, with a lot more snowfall than normal.

[Art_from_Ark]

13. It wasn't *quite* snowless here

We did get a five-minute flurry of big, wet flakes back in early March, but it was certainly the latest recorded first snowfall in this area.

[madrchsod]

12. here ya go--- it`s changing there is no doubt about that

"The new map reflects that many areas have become warmer since 1990 when the last USDA hardiness zone map was published. Significant portions of many states have shifted at least one full hardiness zone. Much of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, for example, have shifted from Zone 5 to a warmer Zone 6. Some areas around the country have even warmed two full zones."

http://www.arborday.org/media/mapchanges.cfm
Hardiness Zone Changes at arborday.org

[JCMach1]

15. Record rainfall in Winter in the UAE this year...

[SoCalDem]

17. So THAT'S where our rain ended up.. Give it back.. at once ! n/t

[JCMach1]

18. Hah! IT should be bone dry here on the edge of the Rub al Khali

Shifting weather may make this area a bit more wet. There were even periods when the monsoons reached here more than 10,000 years back.

[Jamastiene]

23. ...

:rofl:

[TZ]

19. We have many many more tornadoes here in the last 10-15

years (Maryland) than I remember from growing up. And not only do we have more, they seem to be stronger. In the last 10 years or so there have been THREE F-4 tornadoes (La Plata, College Park(!)-near my old dorm!, Frostburg) which used to be unheard of on the east coast.

edited to add: The La Plata tornado was actually close to an F-5 (some people thought it might have been at first), and was the strongest recorded in the US that season.

[Trailrider1951]

20. Nah, it's always fricken hot in Texas

But this year we finally got a normal rainfall thru the spring. Lake Travis has risen 25 feet or so in the last six months!

[Jamastiene]

21. We have had more drought, but when we do get rain, it

is almost always in the form of violent storms with strong damaging winds and hail. Also, we are getting more snow and ice and sleet in the winter than ever before too. I can remember a time when snow/sleet/ice were a rarity that only happened every 3 or 4 years here. Now, it's every year. That's odd for this area. Whatever happened to a nice soft gentle rain shower in the spring? We just don't get those any more. It's all violent all the time and all full of damaging wind and hail every time. I spend more of my time now wondering if I'm going to have to do repairs just because we got some precipitation at all.

[Jamastiene]

22. Dupe. Delete. n/t

[gollygee]

24. It's hard to say - the weather is pretty unpredictable in Michigan

no way to tell at this point.

[Lilith Velkor]

26. We had drought during Clinton and wet stormy weather so far during *.

I'm in the DC area.

[blondeatlast]

27. I'm in the desert southwest and our "monsoon" season used to be fairly consistent--

several weeks in late July-August with very heavy showers.

Now, we see the storm clouds form, but they rarely break into violent storms, unlike in my childhood.

And the saguaro cactus are disappearing VERY rapidly... :cry:

Google search on the disappearing saguaro: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=saguaro+cactus+disappearing