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[katallison]

It's snowing. So far just lots of pretty swirling flakes dampening the ground, though we could get a couple of inches by evening. Which won't stick around--still too warm--but it's the opening salvo. Must get back on my horse and resume the probably-doomed search for a new long down coat that doesn't make me look a pastel marshmallow.

*Very* pretty snow; very dense in the air, so that, as I look out the window, the entire world appears to have been slightly pixelated and greyscaled.

In other items of no interest, how the hell did it get to be Monday??

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From lurker-at-work--no account. (I really enjoy the journal, by the way, Kat, and the fiction--I'm a Cat too, more or less, and came here a year or so back by way of Lynn.)

Weather map: couldn't resist the opportunity to put in my plug for awareness of global warming. Major newspapers just love to point out a single flake of snow in New York, or two days of cold weather, as signs that it isn't really happening, ignoring the melting of ice caps and the ever-diminishing quantites of snow in, say, Alaska. Or they say, "Wow! ANOTHER year of El Nino! Who woulda thunk?" But what's been happening the past few years is textbook global warming: not heat waves everywhere or a universal two-degree rise, but more precipitation falling in violent weather events, more swings from hot to cold and back, more Ninos and Ninas, slightly more "unseasonable" weather of all kinds, longer droughts in dry places, longer wet spells in wet places. Our unseasonably cool, wet summer back east seems like it should defy global warming theory, but if anything it rather tends to confirm it; likewise the 80-degree November days in DC and the four-year droughts in Afghanistan. Alas! Time to storm the White House and demand our Kyoto Treaty back.

--Catherine