Our Winters Are Indeed Warmer
People here in Ulysses who have been paying attention didn’t need a study by Elizabeth Burakowski to tell us that our winters are getting warmer. Still, thanks to her for doing the work to confirm our suspicions.
Burakowski, a graduate student at University of New Hampshire’s Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, found that winters in the Northeastern United States have been especially sensitive to climate change. Of all our seasons, our winters – the particular character of which make our region so distinctive – have warmed the most. The amount of snow we get during the winter has decreased as well.
I was born and grew up in Central and Western New York, and I don’t remember such long stretches of balmy winter weather when I was a kid. This year, we didn’t even get a frost until almost November, and though we’ve had some very nippy days, the winter has been mild on the whole so far, like last year’s.
My winter play as a child was made of snow forts. My kids are practicing riding the bicycle, climbing trees or playing with a ball.
(Source: Associated Press)
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