Why do these articles always come out when the freezing level is forecast to go to 11000 feet?
Depressing indeed, as if we needed it.
I think I'm beginning to understand a bit how the El Nino/Nina weather patterns impact us. This cold/dry followed by wet/warm seems to be a common theme up here when El Nino condiitons are in effect. It's another winter sitting on pins and needles wondering how warm the next front will be. Ugh. Everyone cross your fingers and toes for a few major volcanic eruptions ... another Krakatoa or Timbori could really help our glaciers out.
Have you seen a couple of the recent Nova programs on Super Volcanoes? Pretty interesting. I'm sitting here with a plastic bag over my head shaking in my boots. I think Tambora or Yellowstone is about go. Were going to have some great skiing.
Really, while glaciers "come and go" it is only recently that mankind has been able to take advantage of favorable environmental conditions to flourish. Much warmer or much colder and mankind is likely to be severely stressed. Much colder probably means a Super volcano or some solar output event, much warmer....well we're running that experiment right now. We'll see.
