The sunspots returned in force back in july and it warmed back up and it really made a change to the weather in oregon after 4 winters of cold nasty winter weather

Warmer sun ...1 day of light snow this winter which was melted 6 hours later...december was sunny dry and beautiful..6 days of heavy rain all winter...no wind to speak of...i will list this as one of the best winters in 35 years...

I enjoy dry mild winters and I hope it keeps this up....the sun is to be warmer 2 more years before it sleeps again

In my part of the world, Twin Cities area, we just had the 7th warmest January on record, it was in the 40f today.

River

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Tue Jan 31, 2012 5:46 pm In my part of the world, Twin Cities area, we just had the 7th warmest January on record, it was in the 40f today.

River

What are we going to do about it?

That persistent High Pressure Zone over the Rockies is just ignored.

No cooling efforts on the warmer equatorial Pacific.

Alaskans & you know who, hoarding the precipitation and not sharing.

Encourage no fart foods for cattle and people too.

I have witnessed no real efforts this year for change.

What do you expect? The Great Deity just to decide to change things again!?

Paradise, Center of the Universe just remains so. Too warm. Too dry. Too sunny.

Nothing unusual except it is never, usual.

Moi

Tornadoes in January, is now the time to bring GOD into it? Sun spots and flares, some whacked out butterfly in south east Asia, Or maybe, GOD is getting even for some sin. Sense he keeps picking on the RED states, just saying.

River

Firstly I asked if you were waiting for

"The Great Deity", you invoked that as = GOD.

Well maybe it is for a Pagan. Toss Allah in there too?

And what about Hey Suess?

All = GOD ?

I asked what have we done besides wait for an act of whatever.

We could hire appropriate consultants and ignite a situation similar to - -

http://news.yahoo.com/volcanoes-may-spa ... 06554.html

<edit> "A mysterious, centuries-long cool spell, dubbed the Little Ice Age, appears to have been caused by a series of volcanic eruptions and sustained by sea ice, a new study indicates."

Under the disguise of volcano research, set off a series like a string of Chinese firecrakers in Indonesia & Malaysia. Yellowstone is too close to home and Hawaii too small.

What do you propose, River? Wait for Your GOD to capriciously decide to . . .

Moi

Fight Global Warming, Nuke a Volcano.

Through heat there is cooling, like a natural gas powered refrigerator but principally different,

fhunter is best to explain the paradoxical enigma.

Or is it an enigmatic paradox? ?

Animal sacrifice -- a bull should do, at sunset on the 5th.

Either that or a gaggle of geese on Long Island at sunrise very near a restaurant so the cook can do his thang for dinner!

Warm and dry. Promised rain not raining.

Colorado and points east seem to be getting all the "weather",

Aren't any EA members experiencing it?

Istanbul (that's pretty east) had a snow holiday I'm told.

My sweet Cherry trees are beginning to break bud. Not the Royal Apricot or Mission Fig.

The Blackberry and Boysenberry vines have buds like on "stand-by" for the last week.

The Lemon trees are just beginning to show a bud or two. And some failing Sweet Shelling Peas have grown some length. February 4 !

Praying for rain and jacket weather.

Moi

I know for a fact my God always takes time off at this time of the year, he usually does not return until about May.

For the first time sense I have lived here I am looking at dead grass, I did not know it did that as I thought it was an evergreen plant, then again there is usually about 3' of snow on the ground about this time of year, and what we have is some frost. We went out yesterday and only took a jacket, good down to about 30f, left it open as it was to warm to zip up and to think last year we had the 4th snowiest winter on record, this year the 4 driest winter on record, go figure.

Guess its time to watch Hallelujah Trail again.

River

Yeap, we had one of the coldest winters here in Istanbul, 4 days of really heavy snow fall just lead to a snow holiday...the degrees fell to minus 10 degrees celcius and the city of 12 mio really pissed off...

Weekend was nice and increadibly lukewarm but a new wave is expected by middle of the week

stay warm...

Greetings from Istanbul...

Those Federals lied again.

That promised quarter of an inch of rain over an eight hour period never arrived.

Hardly a damp street or side walk.

Now for another ten days of sun and 70F I suspect.

No one in the storm zone that moved though Colorado and eastward?

Moi

Bored in Paradise,

hey that's why I'm here