I'm not sure if you've seen this argument, but right wingers are arguing that because everywhere has so much snow right now that this is evidence that global warming is false. We all know they are crazy and WE know that precipitation doesn't measure temperature, but to the nutjobs in the south 30 degrees with 3 feet of snow is colder than 30 degrees with 3 inches of snow. Living where I do, you have to know how weather works because we can't depend on forecasts - its sneaky here. I thought I'd tell you how global warming leads to more snow in areas like mine, so that you can be prepared to argue with an asshat.
The warmer and longer a summer is the warmer Lake Michigan gets. Then the lake takes much longer to freeze. When it gets cold, lets say -5 degrees like it was last week and the lake is like 45 degrees the moisture is sucked into the atmosphere crazy fast and builds massive storms that drop insane amounts of snow really quickly. The storms never stop building because there is an endless source of warm moisture (like a hurricane forming on the Atlantic). When the lake finally freezes, the phenominon isn't so bad, which is usually like the second or 3 week in February, after our annual blizzard. So just to repeat that again, the hotter the water gets in the summer, the more snow we get in the winter.
Click here to see what it looks like on the radar. If you imagine Lake Michigan as a penis, I live just to the east of the peehole.
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