Why is the weather so weird?
What is going on with this weather? In the last week, I basked in the sun on the hottest day since summer, got completely drenched while hosting an outdoor bbq and have had to pull out the coat and scarf to deal with these crazy winter like temperatures.
Not only that but it seems there are daily alerts for earthquakes, tsunamis and typhoons. In the same week alone there has been flooding in the Philippines, a Typhoon in Japan, an earthquake in Indonesia and a tsunami in Samoa plus warnings for Australia, New Zealand and much of the South Pacific. It’s enough to make you want to crawl underneath the covers until the world becomes a more sensible place.
So what is going on? Is it global warming? Is it coincidence? Can we do anything? According to Thalia K, it’s because of where we are in the cosmos:
We are approaching the plane of the Milky Way on December 21, 2012. Many scientists believe that the magnetic pull of the milky way the closer we get to this date is causing so many earth changes to occur. If those scientists are correct we are in for a very big shake. More
Other scientists have a different theory. According to Dr Huilin Xing, from the University of Queensland’s Earth Systems Science Computational Centre (ESSCC), Australia’s tectonic plates might be to blame for the Samoan and Sumatran earthquakes.
What about the weather though? All that rain and wind that we’ve been getting? While some people speculate that it might be the beginning of the end, according to Violation Challenged, these sorts of things happen all the time.
Friday Evening I was sitting in an airport next to another traveler who informed me he was a native of Manila. He shook his head as he watched the ‘disaster’ being reported in the Philippines. He pointed at the CNN reporter and stated, “That happens all the time in Manila, it isn’t a disaster, it’s just a regular occurrence…”More
Interesting perspective. As for Australia – were the dust storms related to climate change? Some say yes some say no. What about the current weather – hot one week, cold the next. Apparently it’s ‘not unusual’. Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) forecaster Peter Zmijewski says October often brings very cold as well as very hot weather.
“October can be very temperamental,” he told AAP. “It’s due to adjustment in the atmosphere. It’s Spring.” More
Hmm ok. Looks like there will be a few more days of waiting it out under the covers for some better weather to return. Oh well, at least it’s warm there!
Caitlin
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We have the same weather 100 years ago. The Earth then had volcano eruptions, earthquakes, tzunami, floods as we have now. The difference is in the duration. Before these catastrophies happened every 100 years.
This time, happens very often. One after the other. The Earth has no time to recover. Almost every continent, country, place has catastrophic devatation. The modern technology and increasing intelligence of mankind is no match to these happenings.
How about the nuclear bomb tests? So many countries doing the tests one after the other. Too many “jolts”
An Aussie here.
I think part of the problems is that various issues have been lumbered into the same category of “weather”
An increase in average temperatures will not immediately affect things like tectonic plate movement.
However the issues like (the Australian) drought & bush fires are affected by the elevation in heat.