Sunday, December 15, 2013
Qailertetang
We're constantly hearing variations on this: "Well, it seems Mother Nature can't read the calendar. Winter is still a week away, but you wouldn't think so with 10 inches of snow on the ground."
When did this stupid business of applying an astrologer's calendar to ordinary weather start? Maybe around 30 years ago? Formerly everyone understood that Dec 21 represents the middle of winter and June 21 represents the middle of summer. Think of Midsummer's Night, or the Victorian-era carol In the Bleak Midwinter.
Plain fact: In every place that has a proper winter, proper winter runs from Nov 1 to April 1. In places that don't have a true winter, winter doesn't have any schedule because it doesn't exist. There is no place on Earth where winter begins on Dec 21. There is no place on Earth where summer begins on June 21.
Maybe we can get the Weather Channel to name the real seasons while it's naming storms.
Semi-related: AOL has a nice set of pix from the Middle East, which is getting a proper snowstorm for the first time in 100 years. Ragged Palestinian kids building snowmen (with Muslim headgear and cigarettes, of course!) and Israelis swimming in heated pools in super-lux hotels. Worth 1000 words.
Snow is clearly part of the Grand Blueprint. Plants use it for their own ends. Smart mammals instantly want to play in it, even if they've never seen it before.
Yes indeed. Global warming. Right.
Labels: Carbon Cult, Grand Blueprint
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