Let's Talk Weather

Let's talk weather.

What is going on? What happened to "Global Warming"?  I think we know.  The masterminds in marketing missed the boat and the phenomenon of "climate change".  Here are the facts. We've not seen the driveway for three weeks, finding a place to park in Vancouver tops any New York parking reality show.  The toilet is frozen, the sink is backed up and the cat hates us.

With all this white stuff piling up in Vancouver one would think the same was happening to our soon to be famous ski resorts in Whistler BC.  The future home of the 2010 Winter Olympics.  Not so.  The nasty white stuff has skirted around the Whistler Village similar to a destroyer making it's way through a mined harbor. 

Vancouver has proven its inability to cope with any snow build up.  Our side streets are like Olympic bobsled runs with no room for spectators.  Even the type of snow that dropped on us is worthy of mention.  It has the substance of bread dough gone bad.  A shovel full weighs close to fifty pounds.  That is more exercise than any true Vancouverite wants to engage in.  So it sits, piles up and is starting to give our beautiful city that Alberta cold storage look.  

Something you might not know: Snow is commonly formed when water vapor undergoes deposition, which is when water vapor changes directly to ice without first becoming a liquid, high in the atmosphere at a temperature of less than 32' F  and then falls to the ground.

Snowflakes are made of ice crystals.  Each snowflake is six-sided and made of as many as 200 ice crystals. Snowflakes form in clouds where the temperature is below freezing.  The ice crystals form around tiny bits of dirt that has been carried up into the atmosphere by the wind.  As the snow crystals grow, they become heavier and fall towards the ground.

Even with that information this winter has lost its romantic feel and is slowly turning even the best of us into winter boycotters and complainers.  I've noticed a lot more yellow spots in the snow than usual.  Could we be getting bitter about it?  My snow shovel is two inches shorter than it was last year.  We here in BC buy the plastic ones.  I know that sounds stupid to you real snow dwellers.  We are learning to adapt, and for us that means staying home watching the movie channel .We know that this type of "climate change" is only temporary with warmer weather on the way.  Yep, warmer weather means rain.  Something we look forward to seeing again.