Global Warming
There’s something going on around here. What it is isn’t exactly clear. What the heck is going on with the weather? One day it’s -10 Celcius with all the snow we can shovel, the next day it’s +12 Celcius, sunny, and were breaking out the spring wardrobe.
…Old Man Winter’s senility is showing…
Back on the farm as a boy, when I walked to school up hill both ways for five miles, Winter was Winter. Snow drifts were one hundred feet high, and you wore a thick thermal snow suit that prevented all movement more complex than a waddle. Exposed flesh froze on contact with the outside air, and recess at school was an exercise of arctic survival reminiscent of Scott’s trek to the South Pole.
When it’s the middle of January in Canada you expect the deep freeze. There are notable Canadian exceptions to the rule. Vancouver is perpetually shrouded in rain, except for the one day in August legislated by Parliament for the sun to shine. It’s like England with giant redwoods. Calgary is another oddity. A chinook, a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies, can blow in changing the temperature from -20 to + 20 in a very short period of time, driving the inhabitants insane. For the rest of us, however, this constant fluctuation of unseasonable climate proves only that Old Man Winter’s senility is showing.
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