NO SNOW!!

Ohhhhh, what can I say,  ???, looks like it's off to a bad start for the PNW.  check out the Summit at Snoqualmies web page and click on the National Weather Service Seattle office and no I'm not hallucinating they've mentioned 15,000 feet freezing levels.  Face it Global WARMING is happening.  Thanks in great part to our beloved automobiles.  2004 and we are still driving cars, can't anyone think of any other mode of transportation.  When we pray for snow let's pray for another idea to come to mind to better our modes of transportation.  <br><br>You don't know the feeling of speed until you experience it outside the automobile.  Example:  37mph on the flat on a bicycle feels the equivelant of 65mph in a car.  46mph on skates feels the equivelant of 90mph in a car.  51mph on skis on small cun-cupped snow feels like 120+ in a car.  No, I'm not trying to brag or display any sort of ego, other than to say cars are not only contributing to global warming but it's contributing to our weakening bonds between one another, hence: ROADRAGE.  Want our kids to live on the tradition of making turns all year?  Abolish the automobile! &gt;<br> <br>An automobile hater, and proud of it!!! <br>Maybe a little love, after all it beats walking or any other prior form of transportation. Guess I'd call it the ultimate Love and Hate Relationship. &gt; <br>

Donnelly, a few weeks of localized warm weather does not a global phenomenon make.

You gotta believe me. Just go www.summitatsnoqualmie.com click on conditions. Scroll down a bit and you'll see 4 weather links. Click on the 2nd one. You can see for yourself. August freezing levels in December!! Now that's scarier than the scariest episode of the Twilight Zone! Once you see the forcast you'll realize I have not lost my mind. ;)

Check your history..... There were worse ski seasons over 50 years ago so your global warming trend does not prove out. All we have is a slow start this year (it's happened before and will happen again). <br><br>It was only 5 years ago we had 'world record' snow depths in WA..... Baker's world record did not mark the start of a new ice age, and this years slow start doesn't mean a thing except a slow start. We had much worse seasons in the late 70's-early 80's. <br><br>

How can we gripe after such a phenomenal August, September and October? <br><br><br>

Abolish the automobile!

<br>Hmm, that sounds pretty realistic!! <br><br>I got to concur with hyak and Paul, one poor early season most certainly does not conclusive prove anthropogenic climate change. If you wish to make that argument look for data elsewhere.<br><br>Gaper Jeffey

Seems that many scientists not hired by the current administration tend to agree with ???ski that the globe is warming, though they also speak of much local variation so tough to say what that means for our snowpack other than that the old timers can tell you just how far the various glaciers in the cascades have receded.<br><br>Autos are a reasonably big contributor, at 20 percent of US carbon dioxide emissions according to www.ecobridge.org/content/g_cse.htm , but certainly not the whole story. Get an energy efficient car, spend some more $$ on energy efficient appliances and home, and you can make up a little for heading to the mountains now and then. Or we could all move to the mountains and ruin the solitude for the few who can ski w/o driving...