Calzone
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Global warming is at the tipping point right now, and researchers are saying because of geography that temperature rise here in the U.S. will be about 5-6 degrees on average.
Separately they reported a few years ago that Toronto Canada will have the same sub tropical climate of NYC. The research is indicating that the effect of global warming will become even more dramatic than what we already have experienced.
I speculate that where I live in Peekskill that the climate and growing season will change and approach that of further down south along the coast, where we end up being like maybe Baltimore.
Heated hot air can hold a lot more moisture, so bigger storms and heavier rains are predicted.
Some parts of the country will lack water to the extent that deserts will spread, and our food chain is in danger. Water shortages will become an even bigger problem.
The Baby-Victorian sits about 75-80 feet above sea level, but water that falls in Blue Mountain nearby percolates and 2-3 days later floods basements of some of my neighbors after very heavy raining. Today I am not considered a flood zone, but 50 years ago it was. So far I have a dry basement.
As a consequence of global warming pretty much I’m expecting a rather drastic change in climate where here in the lower Hudson Valley the temperature range will be similar to somewhere along the mid-Atlantic. Snow might be a rare occurrence and might only happen in the mid-Hudson Valley and further north. The Adirondacks climate might not change as much because of altitude.
Our home is nested in a valley within a valley. We are somewhat sheltered, even though we are close enough to the Hudson River to hear the diesel locomotives of Metro North and Amtrack on the Hudson Line. My worry is that my basement may not remain a dry basement… Otherwise we are in a good location. My danger from flooding is through percolation I figure.
I already know that the Hudson River has a narrow choke point at West Point which is just north of Peekskill. There flooding is really dangerous and life threatening.
That storm that destroyed a good part of Vermont and killed a woman near West Point was a record setting amount of rain, and we remained high and dry. My erosion control on the slope in the back-backyard suffered no damages, but I guess what I’m saying is that I’m preparing for a future with even bigger storms and more frequent downpours as well as more sustained heat waves with dangerous heat indexes.
I’m pretty sure I would not want to live in a beach house or flood zone; or own a home further south; or even out west. A 5-6 degree change I figure is a few climate zones, and where I live is already a zone 6b and right on the fringe of zone 7.
Kinda insane to live in Texas or FLA or moving there.
Anyways, I expect this reported 5-6 degree change to be rather drastic and dramatic.
Cal
Separately they reported a few years ago that Toronto Canada will have the same sub tropical climate of NYC. The research is indicating that the effect of global warming will become even more dramatic than what we already have experienced.
I speculate that where I live in Peekskill that the climate and growing season will change and approach that of further down south along the coast, where we end up being like maybe Baltimore.
Heated hot air can hold a lot more moisture, so bigger storms and heavier rains are predicted.
Some parts of the country will lack water to the extent that deserts will spread, and our food chain is in danger. Water shortages will become an even bigger problem.
The Baby-Victorian sits about 75-80 feet above sea level, but water that falls in Blue Mountain nearby percolates and 2-3 days later floods basements of some of my neighbors after very heavy raining. Today I am not considered a flood zone, but 50 years ago it was. So far I have a dry basement.
As a consequence of global warming pretty much I’m expecting a rather drastic change in climate where here in the lower Hudson Valley the temperature range will be similar to somewhere along the mid-Atlantic. Snow might be a rare occurrence and might only happen in the mid-Hudson Valley and further north. The Adirondacks climate might not change as much because of altitude.
Our home is nested in a valley within a valley. We are somewhat sheltered, even though we are close enough to the Hudson River to hear the diesel locomotives of Metro North and Amtrack on the Hudson Line. My worry is that my basement may not remain a dry basement… Otherwise we are in a good location. My danger from flooding is through percolation I figure.
I already know that the Hudson River has a narrow choke point at West Point which is just north of Peekskill. There flooding is really dangerous and life threatening.
That storm that destroyed a good part of Vermont and killed a woman near West Point was a record setting amount of rain, and we remained high and dry. My erosion control on the slope in the back-backyard suffered no damages, but I guess what I’m saying is that I’m preparing for a future with even bigger storms and more frequent downpours as well as more sustained heat waves with dangerous heat indexes.
I’m pretty sure I would not want to live in a beach house or flood zone; or own a home further south; or even out west. A 5-6 degree change I figure is a few climate zones, and where I live is already a zone 6b and right on the fringe of zone 7.
Kinda insane to live in Texas or FLA or moving there.
Anyways, I expect this reported 5-6 degree change to be rather drastic and dramatic.
Cal
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