I got back from Greenfield about 20 minutes ago via route 5.
I91 northbound was backed up for a tractor trailer accident about 1/4 mile south of the Welcome Center. Rt. 5 is very slow and slippery, but there's less traffic and when you get to Mass, there's almost no snow - it's like there's a switch at the border.
Authored by: cgrotke on Wednesday, February 17 2010 @ 03:53 PM GMT+4
I was heading into town on Western Ave and when I got to where it splits
into High and Green, I tried to turn to go down High Street.
My car, however, decided it wanted to go straight to the service station. I
couldn't turn, and my brakes weren't grabbing, so I got ready and hit the
snowbank. Boom!
I backed out and went to my destination, thinking I'd see a crunched in
front end when I got out. Luckily, no visible damage, and no injuries.
Authored by: Mr. Buddy Love on Thursday, February 18 2010 @ 03:23 PM GMT+4
This last snowstorm, which was very wet and slippery, plus the warm
sunny 40-degree temps now, remind me of late March/early April
weather for Vermont, not late February weather. If you just angled
the sun up a few degrees higher in the sky, with the weather we are
having it would totally feel like the end of winter, not late-mid
wintertime.
I think when people say that this weather "feels like normal winter"
they are either too young to remember what winters used to be like,
even with the thaws in January, etc.---or they are choosing to
selectively forget how much the seasonal averages have bumped up to
a warmer notch, with ice outs happening earlier and with wetter snows
that melt sooner now.
With nighttime temperatures not likely to drop this far into the season
down to -20 or colder, this winter of 2009/10 will now be the eighth
consecutive year that we have not been colder than -10 or -12
degrees. We used to get -20 at least one night every winter. Those
days of cold consistency are now gone.
It's a very slippery drive into a new wetter, warmer climate. Fasten
your seat belts everyone!
Authored by: pjmelton on Thursday, February 18 2010 @ 07:28 PM GMT+4
I saw a huge flock of robins foraging in our back yard yesterday. That is just not normal.
Of course, warm weather in February 2010 is not in itself proof of global warming, nor is data the plural of anecdote. But just on a personal level, the amount of completely anomalous weather, which seems pretty much constant now, makes me feel sick to my stomach.
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"Economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings." -- FDR
Authored by: George Tirebiter on Thursday, February 18 2010 @ 05:10 PM GMT+4
It was very hard to walk as well. It was like walking in gelato. According to the NCDC Climate at a Glance site, the South has been experiencing much below temperatures this winter, while states like Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire (the very northernmost states in the country) are experiencing above normal temperatures. In July 2009, the mid-Atlantic states and midwestern states had record cold temperature, and the northeast and southeast experienced temperatures much below normal. However, in the southwest (Arizona) they had much above normal temperatures.
It appears that the coldest temperatures on record are not effecting Vermont at all this winter (and past summer).
