Climate Change? Nahhh ...

They should have some kind of party.

 

Our high on Saturday (New Year's Day) is supposed to be 73. On Monday, it's 38.
COMPLETELY. NORMAL. SURE.

 

To quote a friend's FB entry from a couple of days ago:

"It’s 64 degrees in Kansas City. On Dec. 26 — at 10:48 p.m.
Yet every Missouri Republican elected official says climate change is a hoax. Every. Single. One."

 

From various posts, I think we're more or less in the same part of the country (somewhere Down South), and it really is pretty normal. Our winters tend to run on a predictable weekly cycle:
• Days 1-3 - Warming weather, topping out as high as the 70s.
• Day 4 - Hang on to your butts.
• Day 5 - Freezing-ass cold and windy.
• Day 6 - Less windy, but still freezing-ass cold.
• Day 7 - Warming weather, and the cycle begins again.
The actual numbers can vary, but a 30-degree temperature drop as a strong front moves through is not that unusual.

 

The hors d'oeuvres are to die for.

 

Yeah, depending on where I happen to be, it's either mountains of East Tennessee or on the coast of North Carolina.
The 70s between Christmas and New Year's is above norm. We used to have white Christmases regularly when I was kid.
Our frigid time is mid Jan. to mid Feb. Snow into March and April isn't uncommon.
The big rub I have is the wild swings. That's what's nuts.

 

Slightly different part of the country, then. I'm more of a Gulf Coast guy.
It has been way warmer than normal the past couple of weeks. Like I said in an earlier post, I've been wearing shorts all week. But the big swings here (basically anywhere between Dallas and Atlanta) are quite common. We get the warm air pumping in off the Gulf and the big cold fronts coming in from the Plains, and magic happens. You go from a pleasant tropical environment to living in Cleveland literally overnight, with some big thunderstorms in between.

 

I think that might be the change, that kind of winter pattern shifting further north. Didn’t experience it with any regularity growing up in Middle Tennessee but definitely saw it when I moved to Tuscaloosa for college. But now my parents back home seem to ride the same roller coaster we do in winter, with a couple of extra snows mixed in.

 

The stormy pattern, this year at least, does seem to be more in the Memphis/West Tennessee/Missouri Bootheel/Southwest Kentucky corridor, rather than down closer to I-20 where it often is.