It is snowing again in Europe and the lack of sufficient glycol for de-icing has planes waiting and passngers sleeping on camp beds at Charless De Gaulle airport. In all this hubbub about the weather, we notice some weather chatter from Meteo France:
A quelle période de l'année neige-t-il généralement ?
Jérôme : Sur les massifs montagneux, il peut commencer à neiger fin août-début septembre au dessus de 2000 m. En plaine, on rencontre fréquemment des épisodes de neige dès le mois de novembre et parfois jusqu'au mois de mai. Depuis une cinquantaine d'années environ, on constate cependant que ces épisodes sont plus tardifs dans la saison.
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When is the snowy time of year?I remember reading things like this 30 years ago when I first started paying attention to the climate, and I would follow up on finding out the data that lay behind such remarks. As I write, there is flooding in Venice due to unusually high water. Yet the topic has become a political issue now.
In the mountains, it may begin to snow at the end of August, beginning of September below 2000 meters.... Frequently there are periods of snow in November and even as late as May. For the last 50 years, it has been noticed that the periods of snow are later and later in the season.
I guess that was to be expected; our lives and well- being are indeed political issues.
Add to this the following from Science Daily:
An expanding zone of low oxygen, known as a hypoxic zone, in the Atlantic Ocean is encroaching upon these species' preferred oxygen-abundant habitat, forcing them into shallower waters where they are more likely to be caught...
While these hypoxic zones occur naturally in many areas of the world's tropical and equatorial oceans, scientists are concerned because these zones are expanding and occurring closer to the sea surface, and are expected to continue to grow as sea temperatures rise.We do not need a Climate Czar, but we do need a Climate Cincinnatus!
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