Promising
Red Sky at Night, Sailor's Delight.
With so much uncertainty in the world today, we have to hold on to promises that we’re sure of. This sunset is one reason to always take my camera when I go for a walk […] … but it won’t be long until the warmth will start again, and that’s a promise. See the full post here: https://www.elliekennard.ca/promising/ #EllieKPosts#landscape#novascotia#photography#SilentSunday#Sunset
Growing up and living most of my life in #novascotia#canada, I've really noticed how the weather patterns have changed. Not just that the winter is shorter, milder and less snow.
We used to get real "winter" weather starting in December. January we had a "January thaw", which is when the prevailing weather patterns broke down for a week or two and we had a lot of snow melt. Then the cold weather returned until March.
Now, and the last 2 years in particular, we might not even get winter weather until February, if at all.
We also used to get the storms tracking west to East, so we'd get the weather that Ontario and Quebec had, about a day or two later. This was due to the jet stream with its "normal" behaviour of primarily a west to east flow.
Now, climate change has disrupted the pattern, and so the JS now has a jagged up and down pattern. This pattern causes the "polar vortexes" that reach deep down to the southern US. The same pattern results in us now getting most storms tracking up the eastern seaboard of the US.
I worry for where we are headed. And for anyone who delies CC, I say - look out the damned window!
A lil queer mixed race person on the south shore of #Mikmaki/#NovaScotia where I feed crows & am dreaming up garden plans. I’m a #WebDev who has a complicated relationship with #tech that I will probably always be unpacking.
I’m a settler working toward kinship.
“Over 100 centimetres of snow fell in some areas of Cape Breton [#NovaScotia] between Friday and Monday, burying cars, piling on roofs and blocking roads. The amount of snow prompted Cape Breton Regional Municipality to declare a state of emergency.”
Conservative Premier Houston has since brushed off the need to call a state of emergency calling it a “PR issue.”
#NovaScotia digging out after historic snowfall drops 150 cm in some areas
"Typically, low-pressure systems follow the #JetStream and move through region from west to east," explained Snoddon.
"This storm was a cut-off low, which is disconnected from the jet stream, and as a result it stalled east of the region, causing the prolonged snowfall."