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Woo! -56!
FWIW, our winters have become more extreme in the last decade. When I was young, we rarely fell below -30, now we spend at least a week or two each year below -50.
I took this picture a little while ago. It's a culvert on the road. The creek is my property line...
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You can easily see where the water level should be, and where it is. When we moved here (about a decade ago), it would rain a lot (it even flooded to the point that the road above the culvert was under about 4 feet of rushing water), but things have dried up substantially ever since then.
Quote from: Andy on January 15, 2009, 05:30 PM
I took this picture a little while ago. It's a culvert on the road. The creek is my property line...
You can easily see where the water level should be, and where it is. When we moved here (about a decade ago), it would rain a lot (it even flooded to the point that the road above the culvert was under about 4 feet of rushing water), but things have dried up substantially ever since then.
Only two possible explanations: global warming or el nino
Uh... no... you don't understand. That creek used to have fresh water fish (salmon and trout) most of the year, for centuries. Now most parts of the creek are dry.
"El Nino" was just an early sign of global warming, anyway...
Quote from: Andy on January 15, 2009, 05:30 PM
I took this picture a little while ago. It's a culvert on the road. The creek is my property line...
(http://losberros.org/images/concerns.jpg)
You can easily see where the water level should be, and where it is. When we moved here (about a decade ago), it would rain a lot (it even flooded to the point that the road above the culvert was under about 4 feet of rushing water), but things have dried up substantially ever since then.
OMG! I suggest you submit this to the scientific community immediately! You have discovered global warming! We are all going to die like the Al Gore movie predicted!
But honestly...I think it's Hurricane Katrina, and we all know that Bush caused Hurricane Katrina, so the reason why you have less water in there is because of Bush. We must STOP Bush!
Quote from: Invert on January 16, 2009, 01:24 PM
we all know that Bush caused Hurricane Katrina, so the reason why you have less water in there is because of Bush. We must STOP Bush!
Wait, didn't we?
Quote from: Andy on January 16, 2009, 12:22 PM
Uh... no... you don't understand. That creek used to have fresh water fish (salmon and trout) most of the year, for centuries. Now most parts of the creek are dry.
I'm slightly confused.
Global warming is allegedly responsible for rising sea levels as glaciers melt. But if sea levels are rising, it stands to reason that, particlarly if there is enough energy from trapped heat to melt the glaciers, that there's also increased heat for evaporation. Increased evaporation should lead to increased precipitation (kind of going along with Invert's note that Bush caused Hurricane Katrina), which should increase inland rain as well as sea-based weather.
I'd think if global warming was doing something, it'd be increasing the amount of water in your creek.
Maybe a beaver dammed the river up creek, and thus, lower water levels.
@Raza: Up creek, it's completely dry. The water at that part of the creek is from a spring on our property.
@Mynd: It's about extremes, not about particular dryness. The flood wasn't a normal happening, either. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_global_warming
Quote from: Andy on January 16, 2009, 02:44 PM
@Raza: Up creek, it's completely dry. The water at that part of the creek is from a spring on our property.
@Mynd: It's about extremes, not about particular dryness. The flood wasn't a normal happening, either. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_global_warming
Andy, alert the local media. You've just located global warming. I knew it had to be hiding somewhere since I haven't seen it here.