Climate Change? Nahhh ...

Yeah I know ... it's Montana. But even for them, this past weekend was bad.

Totals in Great Falls: 14 inches and two broken records

 

I read a story the other day where it's supposed to be a La Nina winter, so warmer and dryer in the south.

 

We are at that crazy time of year where I have the heat on in my truck when I drive to work and the a/c on for the ride home.

 

Dang, the trees are throwing down what feels like a record amount of nuts this fall and changing from green to brown to dead without the typical fall show. The locals I've talked to say that typically forecasts cold and colder, earlier and longer. La Nina or Country Folk? Place your bets.

 

The Winter of Our Discontent? Thanks again, 2020!

 

I've got three chestnut trees and a walnut tree that keep the ground covered.

 

I didn't pay too much attention to Denver weather until my son moved there. Wasn't fall of 2019 unusually warm and dry too? Seemed like every day it was 70 or 80 well into November.

 

As the world, specifically the area over the Pacific, grows warmer more of the ocean water evaporates. Some of the resulting clouds will reach the Rockies and drop additional snow or rain. At lower temperatures the warmer weather will lead mean the rain runs off. At higher elevations the additional moisture will just pile up as more snow.

The same phenomena is occurring in the Antarctic. Evaporation is increasing over the Indian Ocean. So additional moisture is dropping on the Antarctic. But much of the eastern Antarctic is on a high plateau. So it is still cold enough that the snow continues to pile up. When the world warms up enough to start melting down that plateau the beach fronts of the world will move dramatically.

 

Yeah, there are two hickory trees that have those massive pods that sound like someone dropped an anvil on the roof or back deck. I'm certain one's going to crack the sliding glass door before the squirrels finally hibernate.

It's an artillery barrage of hickory nuts (and little acorns, too).