Winter Reloaded and Next Week’s Posts
The weather offered me a nice surprise. I knew it was going to get cold again and that some snow was expected, but assumed it’d be mixed with rain and therefore would turn to muck and only be a nuisance. Well, there was a lot of rain too, but I had a nice snowfall to watch yesterday and now I’m looking at another one. Sure, the ground is very wet because of all the rain and the snow has a hard time settling, so you still don’t have a layer on the ground, but at this rate it could just make it, especially since there’s more snow expected over the next few days and temperatures are expected to stay low until the end of next week.
This certainly lifted my spirits a little bit. Hardly enough to counter everything else for any length of time, but at least it helps a little. Especially since that pile of snow I mentioned before was much more resilient than I gave it credit for and there still was just a little of it left when it started snowing yesterday. Now let’s see how long it will really hold. Talking about both the return of winter and my slightly improved mood…
My ideal climate would likely involve something that we could potentially describe as three seasons. That means four months of real winter, with snow covering everything and temperatures likely not going above freezing for at least half that time, and the other eight split between spring and autumn. I’m saying spring and autumn because the end of one and the beginning of the other would obviously involve the highest temperatures, but not quite what the people who live in a temperate climate would currently describe as summer.
Or, actually, it could be better described as having four seasons, but with winter and summer having four months each and spring and summer having two months each, as long as the expected temperatures for summer would drop. I’m saying that because I don’t favor long transition periods, so I’d like the temperature maximums to go from just a little above freezing at the end of winter to around 30°C pretty quickly, let’s say within two months, and then not get noticeably higher for the duration of the summer. And the process would obviously be reversed in two more months after the end of the summer.
Such uneven seasons and such constant temperatures for so long don’t really seem possible, if I’m to go on what I know about star systems and climate patterns, but the general idea of harsher winters and milder summers at temperate latitudes is certainly possible even here on Earth. It’d only require a significant reduction of the greenhouse effect… And there you have a very personal reason of mine to be worried about the direction we’re currently heading in, albeit a minor one compared to all the rest.
But there have been far too many personal posts lately, once again, and I really hope I’ll be able to use the slightly improved mood to write about something else next week. I won’t say that I’ll try to write three posts because that’s highly unlikely, but maybe I’ll at least manage to write two non-personal ones. As always, there’s no lack of topics I mean to write about, just that I’m almost never in the necessary frame of mind…
Writing two non-personal posts would get significantly easier if I’d finish King’s Bounty: The Legend no later than Friday, since in that case I’d be likely to write a review for it and post that as well. That’d probably be the only way to write three posts next week, though even then it’d be unlikely…
