If you can’t stand the heat…
…get out of New England.
A random warm day here and there is typical. But this spring we’ve been having sustained warm weather. Not just warm either, but warm/hot and sunny and relatively dry.
I keep encountering people who automatically attribute it to global warming. That’s incorrect, of course; they are making the common error of confusing variable weather with climate change. It’s only over time, and on a larger scale, that the latter occurs.
But whatever the cause, it’s been wondrous strange. We are all North Carolinians now.
[NOTE: By the way, I had thought the term was “North Carolingans” or something like that. But apparently I had gotten a few wires crossed with this arcane fragment of knowledge. When I looked it up, I discovered the right term is “Carolinians.” The same page, however, said the residents of Massachusetts are called “Massachusettsans.” Huh? Never heard of em. In the right-hand column of the chart is a bit more discussion: apparently “Massachusite,” although not official, is traditional, whereas “Massholes” is listed as slang.]
I live across the river from Portland, OR. It’s 47 degrees today and cloudy, with a half inch of rain headed our way. That’s much cooler than normal. So if it’s global warming, it’s not on this part of the country.
I can’t find a way to get out of work lately… I feel like I’m wasting all this fabulous New England weather by not getting out on the golf course. It always even out somehow around this part of the country so I know the bad weather is on its way.
We usually get this sort of weather with a strong high off the east coast (Bermuda high) bringing warm southern air our way. What people never seem to understand, especially those who can’t distinguish between weather and climate, is that the high is also bringing colder air down from the north somewhere else. In this case the middle of the Atlantic. Just shift that high west and place it over Kentucky, and the west is warm and the northeast cool.
Oh… on your other note: I began to understand the term Masshole after spending several Memorial Day weekends at my daughters soccer tournament which is held in Needham. Driving all over that area definitely showed how that term came about. 🙂
Just kidding… some good friends are from Mass, they just need to learn to drive 😉
Massholes, too funny. What about Connecticut? Connecticans?
Just kidding… some good friends are from Mass, they just need to learn to drive
Yeah, apparently driver training in Mass. is conducted at a bumper car facility.
What about Connecticut? Connecticans?
California?
Californicators!
I remember a secretary where I worked remarking on how warm it was that particular winter, and knee-jerkedly attributing it to global warming. I said something like whaddaya mean, and she referred to the relatively balmy temperature outside.
When I pointed out the deep freezes in Florida at the time [this was during some winter over two decades ago now], and how the orange/citrus crops were suffering as a result, she had the integrity to say “ohh, yeahhh . . . maybe not”.
That was before global warming had become fixedly established as Received Religion, but I still like to imagine she was indeed at least ^that^ open to countervailing nput.
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As an ex from Brookline I always referred to us as Bay Staters, the citizens of The Bay State!
VAITGuy
What about Connecticut? Connecticans?
CT is known as the Nutmeg state, from the reputation of Yankee peddlers for selling wooden nutmegs. So, nutmeggers.
Coming from a rural area of NE, my initial impression of Massachusetts was that it was CROWDED. Before my tenth birthday, I had coined the phrase “a mass of MASS people.”
Several years ago I rented a car at the Manchester NH airport- very good airport- and drove to my sister’s place in MA on the North Shore. The state still seemed very crowded to me.
Occam’s Beard
California? Californicators!
Since they have Californicated the place up, sounds appropriate. I had always used “Californians.”
Wiki has no nickname listed for inhabitants of California.
That is, they have no name. In Spanish, to say “no tiene nombre” [He/she/it has no name] is a very strong, albeit not obscene, expression of contempt.
I once lived in Baltimore (“Ball’mer”. as it is pronounced locally).
“Baltimoreans” for most, “Baltimorons” for a few.
I’d heard Massachushitians was the correct, if unapproved (and unappreciated) term.
From the same nutjobs who gave us global warming we are now treated to man caused earthquakes. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/17/us-earthquakes-usa-idUSBRE83G1FL20120417
I wonder what it’s like to be a person who thinks themselves and humanity matters so much to the world?
Since they have Californicated the place up, sounds appropriate.
Californians are those of us native to the state. The Californicators are mostly from the Northeast. NY, NJ, and MA are especially heavily represented. They fled the problems caused by liberal politics, but like plague carriers, brought the contamination with them.
We Californians keep hoping they’ll go back home, but no dice. The sociopolitical buboes are now only too apparent as liberalism here approaches its Goetterdaemmerung.
Dang OB. You made me google Goetterdaemmerung.
Sorry, SteveH!
Our March (DC area) was warmer than April has been. I blame climate change.
The world makes one place hot, in order to make another place cold. Maybe you can enlighten your fellow neighbors on this little bit of science, Neo.
It’s called “zero sum” weather. Don’t you find it strange that they are all about invisible increases from nothingness when it comes to an object, weather, that has no personal qualities. But when it comes to wealth created by humans, it is the opposite?
The left and humanity really are mutually exclusive.
“Massholes?” because of their driving habits.
Well, nothing beats a “goddamnjerseydriver$%?!”
Last winter was mild; the previous 3 winters we experienced bitterly cold and snowy extremes with some record setting cold temperatures. (-27 with -50 wind chill). We have little knowledge of the interplay of sun-oceans-atmosphere, we have much wild conjecture, and computer models influenced by grants which have morphed into a silly cult.
Enjoy the warm spring. Plant seeds and hope for rain and sunshine in equal measure. There is no new thing under the sun for we can only reap what we have sown. My garden grows and that is enough for me.
The Global Warming alarmists always tell us weather is not climate when it snows in the Middle East, but warn of us of impending doom when it is unseasonably warm.
The last few weeks have been a roller coaster. We had a warm spell, the blossoms bloomed, and I put away my winter running gear. Then I show up at a 7am run in shorts and short-sleeved tee-shirt, and it’s 28° and the ground is white with frost. Oops. Next weekend, I’m doing 10 miles and it’s 77° and I’m dressed in winter black and forgot to bring hydration. The parks system had not turned on the water fountains so I finished very thirsty, hot and sweaty. Oops. Tonight was cool and windy, but I’d learned my lesson. I had a bag full of winter, spring and summer gear in my trunk.
Heat kills runners, especially in spring. Check out reports on the Boston Marathon. You train through winter and marathon day delivers tropical temperatures. Aargh!!!
But the variations we are experiencing now are minimal compared to the variations experienced when the Earth entered an Ice Age and when it emerged. The alarmists NEVER talk about Ice Ages.
I spoke to a local farmer. He’s been farming for over forty years and yet can only remember one year that fell into the normal range. I asked him about his college degree and of course he had none.
When will tenured professors get out there and triple our output?
You caint stan the heat, an you bitchin?
Nobody may you stan up to mittens.
She found and you followed ’round miles
useless cretins, trials and trials and trials.
Back strong aint ya, but ya mouth have ya
full of coffee, peppermint and boo-ya
Snack dabble offagus, trant bore luftus
Scream we, Why you left us.
Wow Curtis – I thunk I lost you. You still got zing that aint called a thing. Farmin aint harmin – unless you do it right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=221mohEolWc&feature=related
Why art is a reflection and no correction of common sense.
Old man, take a look at my life, I’m a lot like you were.
When we’re honest, even the artists, in their honesty, know there is no changing human nature.
Ummm. Except for polar bears who have become suddenly warm and cuddly and huggable. Please hug one, soon.
Preesum Bobum, scorp, did um ad lv um.
Crp. Dd I leave her out.
Shine on harvest moon up in the sky
I have no quips, no quilips –
just memories of time gone by.
Please keep posting as time goes by.
I’ll write something useful – by & by.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpntNDAYltM&feature=related
Puppies. And Lost in Love. God. Was I thinking aloud?
No.
I must fight now.
“”He’s been farming for over forty years and yet can only remember one year that fell into the normal range.””
Bob
What’s amiss in this is how global warmist purposely confuse the definitions of normal and average weather. Normal has always consisted of wild swings in weather that gives us an average we may only on rare occassions actually experience.
They want you to think that normal and average weather meant exactly the same thing before people came along.
My average response would say maybe. Overeducation is a wonderful thing.
It’s time for a cool change. I was born in the sign of water, the whale and the albatross are my brother, staring at the full moon like a lover.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bKwRW0l-Qk&feature=related
I had my water, both fresh and new
I like it in winter
but then who doesn’t like a chew
Curtis – Dolphins are very cool; however, killer whales seem to be on the dominant curve of that graph.
The term “Michigander”, I think, was coined by Abraham Lincoln. I don’t know of any other term for people from That State Up North. Anybody?
I dunno, lo, these many years gone past, I was driving in both places during a trip. I don’t recall anything particularly obnoxious about Jersey drivers, but I do recall being in the downtownish area of Boston, and noting how
a) there were no lanes marked on a five-lane wide road
b) how two solitary drivers were managing to weave around on that five-lane-wide roadway so as to stop anyone from being able to readily get around them.
So, while my own experience is nowhere near a statistical universe, that was some serious jerkwad driving going on there in Boston.
😉
I’d recommend you hunt up the weather from last year from March to May.
I specifically recall that, where I am (not New England) the weather had substantial cold snaps all the way into May. Does that indicate Global Cooling?
Of course not. As you note, it’s just variable weather. One year is warm, the next is cool. A few years — in a row, even –much less a single year, does not a pattern make.
>>> That is, they have no name. In Spanish, to say “no tiene nombre” [He/she/it has no name] is a very strong, albeit not obscene, expression of contempt.
Ties to the notion of bastardy, is my guess.
Not that anyone actually gives a rodent’s patootie about such things any more.