Has anyone noticed that the winter seems especially harsh this year?
I spent the first 38 years of my life living in Los Angeles, and never remember seeing rainfall or flooding, or winds like they have right now.
I saw on the news that a large part of Thousand Oaks, which I used to live near, is completely flooded. I never saw that happen.
Here in Phoenix the new says that the rainfall has been 'unprecedented'.
Seems like every pleace the news talks about is getting more rain, more snow, colder temperatures, than ever before.
Nobody else seems to think much of it, but it sure seems strange to me. Like some kind of huge shift in global weather patterns. Perhaps global warming has finally started to shift us in to a new ice age.
Something is not right though.
Perhaps we are entering another Manuder Minimum period. For those not familiar with the summaries of Maunder on sunspot activity, here is a great article:
http://www.eso.org/gen-fac/libraries/li ... kmanj.html
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