Home in Winter

[bjarvis]

It was raining when I crawled out of bed this morning. With the exception of a teasing two minute flurry last week, I haven't seen snow on the ground since last December, and even then it only lasted two days before melting away.

This is what I miss:


Longtime friend Edward snapped this shot of Lake Timiskaming (New Liskeard, ON) earlier this month.

It isn't winter if the water is liquid.

Comments

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

As much as I miss the snow, I don't particularly miss shovelling it.

On the other hand, I worry that the lack of snow over significant areas of the US and southern Canada may have a profound impact on the water table and fresh water supply for many areas.

I still want to escape to Canada, though.

Where's Harriet Tubman when you need here?

[madknits.livejournal.com]

The years when we have the worst drought problems are the ones when we don't have enough snow. Whether we call it climate change or global warming, the weather is changing, and my guess is that what are coastal areas are going to be under water (goodbye, Boston, New Orleans, New York, Vancouver, San Francisco (who gives a rat's ass about Los Angeles?)), and prime farming areas are going to become deserts. A friend did her Peace Corps work in Kiribus, formerly the Gilbert Islands, and the highest land there is about 4 feet above sea level. They are very concerned about global warming.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

I wonder... has anyone done any studies about new farm lands which would become available? The prairies would be baked into cheap ceramics but I wonder about the viability of would-be farmland further north if the growing season was long enough.

The area in which I grew up had too short a growing season for, oh, just about everything but had the right soil for most cereal crops. If the season was just another 30-45 days longer, perhaps we'd have new breadbasket regions.

Purely idle speculation on my part.