Monday, February 2, 2015

Six more weeks of winter. Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow.

According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event".
"Children just aren't going to know what snow is." 

 Photo taken from the sunroom window after a foot of snow from a storm of yesterday afternoon and last night.





Squirrel-proof bird feeder outside my window in the sunroom. Ground squirrel sunk in the snow on top of the bird feeder.

As children were off of school today, snow day, they took to the sledding hill behind McDonald's Middle School.

BTW. Dr. David Viner utter the prognostication in 2000. It is still possible that he will be correct, only the observations are now outside of the 95% confidence limits of model projections.