Don't F$#@ With Mother Nature

We were just checking out the latest news and came across more news on the weather in Brazil
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/26/2430050.htm?section=justin

We've had probably the wildest start to our storm/wet season in decades. While in the Southern States, they've had snow one week before our official Summer starts. Even our deserts have had more rain in the last month than at least the last ten years
Cali is getting some huge Winter fires.

I think we should be getting the message by now. Mother Nature is taking steps to readjust the balance.
Has anyone else been experiencing extreme weather, or out of season weather, or sudden onsets of extreme conditions?
Is the Canadian Ice Road to the mines going to passable this year?
Will the Arctic ice cap form properly this year?

I'd like to see and discuss other smokers' views and experiences.

The ice road is passable every year, just sooner or later in the winter. Although it is un-seasonably warm right now....

mother natures a whore..
kurt cobain

Were getting huge amounts of snow for being only november. Hell southern ontario got over 2 feet last week.

skiskate said:

Were getting huge amounts of snow for being only november. Hell southern ontario got over 2 feet last week.

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depends where in southern ontario you are... we just got a long covering
good ols southern ontario.. wher ein the states territory!

If this keeps up, we Aussies might finally be able to say that we've had a white christmas?? Considering that christmas is in summer here, that would be kind of cool.

flatrider said:

depends where in southern ontario you are... we just got a long covering
good ols southern ontario.. wher ein the states territory!

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Yeah I mean like real south on the border of the states. Sarnia london all those cities. Where I am there about 20 cm on the ground.

Ski we haven't gotten any snow, and Im right on the border. Like maybe a few cm's but nothing to really worry about. You guys are getting absolutely pounded though.

Your in a border town? I know sarnia had 76 cm last week and peterborough area got like 10 yesterday to add onto our other 10. Ive already hit up the ski hills in barrie too, damn early season usually its like mid december and i still havent touched a hill. I love winter 08 so far.

skiskate said:

Your in a border town? I know sarnia had 76 cm last week and peterborough area got like 10 yesterday to add onto our other 10. Ive already hit up the ski hills in barrie too, damn early season usually its like mid december and i still havent touched a hill. I love winter 08 so far.

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Yes sir. im about 50km from sarnia. I'd like to going boarding. Been once and couldn't walk the next day. I have mad respect for skiiers and boarders. I tell ya once you get going it's fucking awesome.

Biggravy22 said:

Yes sir. im about 50km from sarnia. I'd like to going boarding. Been once and couldn't walk the next day. I have mad respect for skiiers and boarders. I tell ya once you get going it's fucking awesome.

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The two greatest things are skiing and weed to me. Although being in knee deep powder in the middle of nowhere in the backcountry gives a better high than mary jane ever could. I never knew you were that far south for some reason i thought you were bordering toronto.

a week ago it was 60 F over here and over the course of 3-4 days winter came on, and froze the lake in 3 days... normally it takes a couple months for the lake to fully freeze.

we have had to worse storm in 25 yrs roads houses all fucked up and still cleaning been raining for weeks now light rain in the daytime heavy at night

dahamma said:

The ice road is passable every year, just sooner or later in the winter. Although it is un-seasonably warm right now....

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Is the length of time getting shorter, or does it usually have a predictable life span? I probably sound like an idjit, but where I'm from -2C is considered extremely cold.

flatrider said:

mother natures a whore..
kurt cobain

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skiskate - Were getting huge amounts of snow for being only november. Hell southern ontario got over 2 feet last week.

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flatrider - depends where in southern ontario you are... we just got a long covering
good ols southern ontario.. wher ein the states territory!

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skiskate - Yeah I mean like real south on the border of the states. Sarnia london all those cities. Where I am there about 20 cm on the ground.

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Biggravy22 - Ski we haven't gotten any snow, and Im right on the border. Like maybe a few cm's but nothing to really worry about. You guys are getting absolutely pounded though.

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Originally Posted by skiskate
Your in a border town? I know sarnia had 76 cm last week and peterborough area got like 10 yesterday to add onto our other 10. Ive already hit up the ski hills in barrie too, damn early season usually its like mid december and i still havent touched a hill. I love winter 08 so far.

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HippyMan - a week ago it was 60 F over here and over the course of 3-4 days winter came on, and froze the lake in 3 days... normally it takes a couple months for the lake to fully freeze.

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So, is this all out of the ordinary? I know that the storms in our capital city are worse than I remember. In the seventies their were some good ones, and a lot of cyclone (hurricane) activity. But nothing as concentrated and as fierce as the storms that have been going through up and down our coast this time of year. We have 13 declared Natural Disaster Areas in our state alone and the cyclone season hasn't started yet.

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we have had to worse storm in 25 yrs roads houses all fucked up and still cleaning been raining for weeks now light rain in the daytime heavy at night

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I guess you're from somewhere in QLD ~MoE~? I'm up on the Tropic of Capricorn or thereabouts.

Northern Indiana, we barely ever get snow until atleast late december
and we've already had three snow storms, with one bringing about 7inches in one night.
and its so much colder then usual

There's no need to be concerned...these things must come to pass. The Earth will always balance itself out when it gets off balance. It functions very well in that department...humans have some catching up to do.

Dfunk said:

There's no need to be concerned...these things must come to pass. The Earth will always balance itself out when it gets off balance. It functions very well in that department...humans have some catching up to do.

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I think we need to live in tune with the planet, rather than fight it every step of the way. We're the only species that, through our actions have accellerated global climate change.

skiskate said:

The two greatest things are skiing and weed to me. Although being in knee deep powder in the middle of nowhere in the backcountry gives a better high than mary jane ever could. I never knew you were that far south for some reason i thought you were bordering toronto.

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I know how that could me misinterpreted. My inlaws live in the GTA, and we're up there around 6-8x a year. Sadly we don't live up there...yet.