O.K., the term Global Weirding is not an original idea of mine.
I happened to see it in a comment on a Huffington Post bit of an AP story on the recent weird occurrence of snow–up to 8 inches of it–right in New Orleans. 
“NEW ORLEANS – A rare snowfall blanketed south Louisiana and parts of Mississippi Thursday, closing schools, government offices and bridges, triggering crashes on major highways and leaving thousands of people without power.”
As winter is approaching Northern California, and we downhill inclined (pun intended) sports enthusiasts dream of a deep, dry powder snow pack, Lake Tahoe and the rest of the near-by Sierras have been pretty barren of the white stuff, at least until the last storm or two.
This is all the while we have been seeing TV news clips that the east coast surely must have pissed off the mild winter gods where ice storms have brought down powerlines, somewhere probably on a shiny, not yet paid off BMW (which was all some young stock trader had left in his life as his investment portfolio was lower than the now smashed roof of his Beamer).
For anyone who travels, having some sense of the coming weather is more than a nice thing to know.
For extreme adventurists packing the appropriate clothing can be a matter of life or death.
I don’t know about you, but it has been a long time since I have seen any semblance of “normal weather.”
Down here in the central valley of California, we even got a skiff of snow yesterday morning.
Until recently the cold climate has been more noticeable inside the halls of the state capitol as they try to come up with a compromise as how to climb out of a predicted 40 BILLION dollar deficit–than outside, in the typically balmy Sacramento area weather.
But even the politicians warmed to the snow event.
“The excitement even reached the Board of Supervisors meeting. Supervisor Mike McGowan announced that it was snowing and asked for a quick snow break.”
My next South Pacific dive trip will probably be to the Philippines. My local dive shop offers a trip there both in the springtime and in the autumn.
My last post was about predicting tsunami-generating earthquakes in that part of the world.
Predicting global tectonic movement is a pretty tough gig.
I’m just trying to guesstimate whether the weather will dictate if I should pack foul weather gear or only my Borat-like Speedo.
I have no idea how much of this weather weirdness is human-caused and how much might be a small part of an eon-length “natural” climate cycle, but trust me…
…you don’t want to see me in that particular one-piece bathing suit.
