Is it just me or does it seem like the strangest of things have been going on as far as weather?

Question

Southern Illinois had a horrible ice storm and lost power (at least a lot of people including me) for a week.. Then there's the sever flooding we had, then earthquakes...None of this is "normal" for my area.. What's going on with the world??

Answer 1

ITS CALLED CLIMATE CHANGE (GLOBAL WARMING) WERE HEATING THE EARTH......BAAAAAD...

Answer 2

I live in Utah and the whole spring has been either sunny, rainy or snowy, it shouldn't be snowing this late in the year so yes it has been strange. I never know how to dress :)

Answer 3

It's called Global Warming;-{ have you not heard about it?

Answer 4

You're going to get a lot of people saying global warming.

Basically, we can't really know what is "normal" on a long-term scale in N.A. especially, because we've only been here a few hundred years with records.

We are going through a warming trend and climate changes, but we don't know if it's going to keep going in this direction or if it will eventually plateau or reverse itself.

Answer 5

Think of weather as a set of balances.  For each action there is an equal and opposite reaction.   An earthquake is caused by shifting plates and these changes may not appear instantaneously but usually over a longer period of time.  Sometimes these events are numerous and at others barely detectable.

Even the clouds and rain have to obey the laws of physics and so do weather patterns,  with their rains and storms. Even a parcel of air reacts to it's environment.  As that parcel of air moves both horizontally and vertically it undergoes changes by adiabatics and advection.

Now to tie this into global warming/climate changes would mean that other forces are overcoming the day to day function of physics.   For example,  solar flares can disrupt radio signals and even bring a surge of short wave radiation from the sun but even this is mitigated by our atmospheres.  Some of this radiation is reflected back by clouds and some is absorbed by the surface.    At nights, with no inversion,  that radiation is released by a process called radiational cooling.    

Always, there are checks and balances and even a surge in radiation is offset by natural events that occur every day.   It would take a substantial amount of radiation above the norm to change the environment.

When you get a lot of cold weather you can invariably expect a warming trend of equal intensity,  although that warming can be over a longer period of time.

Answer 6

Well the winters and summers seem to keep getting colder and hotter and there is more going on with the geology of the earth then ever before. Perhaps part of the climate change is due to global warming which most people don't realize or care that is taking place. In the past 5 years the climate change from global warming has risen more than all the years combined that scientists have been studying it. I wish they would make more environmental safe cars but that may not happen for a long time because of the big oil companies and the money they give our politicians to stay out of their business. There are other areas as well but it always seems like nobody feels like taking time to take a proactive approach because they feel it isn't their problem a 100 years down the road so they will leave it up to their children to take care of the problem and many of them will leave it up to their children and so on until one generation is doomed. Isn't it sad that most people don't even recycle? They are that lazy and yet you will still have some complain and wonder why others don't do it.

Answer 7

ya i no! one day we will have 80 degree weather and the next, snow!! well if you are religious, its in the bible. if your not, than you can blame it on global warming.