CLIMATE CHANGE
This past weekend we have had a Noreaster up here. Normally that only happens in the winter. In the past five weeks, we have gotten forty per cent of the total rainfall we normally get annually. It is raining hard again now and another storm is scheduled to come in Wednes. I have been joking about rain forest North up here.
Of course it affects a lot, inc the fishing. No one recalls comparable weather at this time of year. I have been studying the larger systemic patterns and can not precisely figure out the dynamics relative to global warming. I suspect it may have more to do with the axis of the earth shifting slightly.
My question to you all is what weather anomalies you are observing local to where you live and what analysis you may be putting on them?
This past week, I noticed one established tree in my garden keeled over from how liquid the soil has become. I had come up from NYC with the remaining trees from the Exit Art show. The rest of the work is coming down today. When we dug the holes to plant the trees from the installation, they filled up with water like a well. One of the holes we dug on the slope that is part of the Ghost Nets site riparian zone filled up and wouldn't drain down at all, so we abandoned it.
The next day, water was pouring thru that hole like a regular mountain stream from the uplands. Normally we get about one half our total volume of rainfall to replenish our sole source aquifer in April and the other half in November. The volume of flow in the uplands riparian zone maxes out at one third what I saw yesterday by April and it disappears by now.
I had to plant the trees, already stressed by girdling from their time in the gallery and windburn from the ride up, in pools of water. Almost everywhere I dug, there was standing water. And since then we've had two more storms with no end in sight ahead.
Looking at the weather maps, it seems the Pacific is pushing the storms this way (perhaps from the warming there?) and it's almost as tho the Arctic is sucking them North towards us.Then the Atlantic seems to be pushing them back West from the Gulf of Maine so rather than go out to sea, they just keep swirling aroung New England. The latter may be related to talk of Britain going back into a mini ice age?
Informed insight is welcome.
Of course it affects a lot, inc the fishing. No one recalls comparable weather at this time of year. I have been studying the larger systemic patterns and can not precisely figure out the dynamics relative to global warming. I suspect it may have more to do with the axis of the earth shifting slightly.
My question to you all is what weather anomalies you are observing local to where you live and what analysis you may be putting on them?
This past week, I noticed one established tree in my garden keeled over from how liquid the soil has become. I had come up from NYC with the remaining trees from the Exit Art show. The rest of the work is coming down today. When we dug the holes to plant the trees from the installation, they filled up with water like a well. One of the holes we dug on the slope that is part of the Ghost Nets site riparian zone filled up and wouldn't drain down at all, so we abandoned it.
The next day, water was pouring thru that hole like a regular mountain stream from the uplands. Normally we get about one half our total volume of rainfall to replenish our sole source aquifer in April and the other half in November. The volume of flow in the uplands riparian zone maxes out at one third what I saw yesterday by April and it disappears by now.
I had to plant the trees, already stressed by girdling from their time in the gallery and windburn from the ride up, in pools of water. Almost everywhere I dug, there was standing water. And since then we've had two more storms with no end in sight ahead.
Looking at the weather maps, it seems the Pacific is pushing the storms this way (perhaps from the warming there?) and it's almost as tho the Arctic is sucking them North towards us.Then the Atlantic seems to be pushing them back West from the Gulf of Maine so rather than go out to sea, they just keep swirling aroung New England. The latter may be related to talk of Britain going back into a mini ice age?
Informed insight is welcome.
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