That was one long stretch of cold weather.
Even old-timers who liked to talk about how tough things were back when, grudgingly agree that the winter of 1995-96 compared with the worst of them. You’ll notice I’m using the past tense but I know and you know we could still get big-scale nasty weather before spring.
There was a strange story in the newspaper the other day about how this long cold spell just proved that global warming was in progress.
The scientist in question said it was unusual weather as one sees at a time of change. He may be right but he must have been on another globe than I was in the latter part of January.
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About the time you get this, we’ll be in California doing some research into how snowbirds cope with temperatures on the plus side. Their metabolisms must be all out of whack, missing out on the natural -40 degree temperatures in the land of their birth.
“Pardon me, Henry, I notice your face has turned all brown and I wonder if you are feeling any ill effects?”
Perhaps I could get some scientist to come up with cold pills to offset the effects of hot sunny weather.
However, before assessing the proper treatment we first must complete the research.
This will be a two-week project and we hope by its completion some short-range global warming will have occurred on the Prairies.
To get a proper scientific sample one would have to conduct a number of checks to validate the findings of the original survey. Let’s see now, there’s Florida and Arizona and Texas and Mexico…
