With Global Warming, we get more rain and ice storms in the winter and more rain in the summers, milder autumns that last into December, and Springtime that starts in March instead of in late April.
This Christmas looks like a rain and ice event for Brattleboro. Does anyone have a prediction for how much rain we will get for Christmas this year? I'm guessing at least an inch of the wet stuff. We still might get a white Christmas, but it'll be a damp and foggy one, unless something changes at the last minute and the storm forecast to head up to Michigan and the Great Lakes turns more to the east coast. There just isn't enough cold air from the Arctic to spread around in winter anymore, since the ice caps are shrinking in size each year. Eventually when the ice caps are gone in the summer, we will have some really seriously depressing and scary weather changes. For now, it's just less reliable winters with less snow cover each year on average.
It looks like the days of 80-90% probability of a snowy white Christmas are ending in Vermont. It's sad to see winter disappear, melting away with each warmer decade of manmade changes.