Happy December all! Our unseasonable non-fall weather has ended. It only took until December. It is cold and raining and we in Maryland need it dramatically. There is a river that is gone. It is a brook or less; a dribble. It is startling. Anyone who follows our current presidency and their take on "global warming" is a moron. When I can see 95% of a riverbed that is more often 20-40 feet deep I am concerned.
It was almost 70 degrees on Thanksgiving in Washington D.C., well above normal. There is a great article in The Onion, the satirical newspaper, that ran the other day. For all of their satire I think that they may be frighteningly correct. “Fall Canceled after 3 Billion Seasons”: Fall, the long-running series of shorter days and cooler nights, was canceled earlier this week after nearly 3 billion seasons on Earth, sources reported Tuesday.
The classic period of the year, which once occupied a coveted slot between summer and winter, will be replaced by new, stifling humidity levels, near-constant sunshine and almost no precipitation for months.
'As much as we’d like to see it stay, fall will not be returning for another season,’ National Weather Service president John Hayes announced during a muggy press conference Nov. 6. ‘Fall had a great run, but sadly, times have changed.’ ... The cancellation was not without its share of warning signs. In recent years, fall had been reduced from three months to a meager two-week stint, and its scheduled start time had been pushed back later and later each year.”
