I’m in New Hampshire this week visiting family. Last saturday it was snowing: a full on late December snow squall that covered the whole state in white.
Today it was 69 degrees (21 celsius) at Manchester Airport. In New Hampshire. In January. I swear I saw a polar bear treading water in the Merrimack River.
Now I am sitting in Laconia, NH and looking out the window at 60 MPH (100 KPH) winds whip across Paugus Bay on Lake Winnipesaukee with a severe thunderstorm warning in effect for the next half hour. Not a blizzard. Not a cold snap. Thunderstorms. Did I mention it’s January?
I’m so glad my president is convinced that human activity is having no effect on global climate change. Really I am.
6 responses so far ↓
1 Brendan // Jan 6, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Dude, no kidding. It’s like 75 degrees in Philly at the moment. I’m heading back to Beijing on Wednesday, and man will there ever be wailing and gnashing of teeth. It was in the teens when I left, and has since gone up to the low 30s.
2 花崗齋之愚公 // Jan 6, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Thanks for the update, I’ll be flying to Beijing on the 15th. Glad I’m packing the requisite long underwear.
3 無名 - wu ming // Jan 7, 2007 at 4:06 am
you wanna see something really disturbing, check out this map. china - jiangnan and the north china plain = three gorges relocation on a biblical scale.
welcome to sunny shijiazhuang for a nice day at the beach.
4 花崗齋之愚公 // Jan 7, 2007 at 5:32 am
And truly ye shall reap what ye sow.
(It’s Sunday morning, I’m feeling ‘biblical.’)
Thanks for that great link, Wu Ming.
5 Laura in Kunming // Jan 25, 2007 at 7:05 am
I just stumbled across your very interesting blog. As much as I appreciate the posts on history and culture and the such, it is this post that really caught my attention. So, are you a New Hampshirite too? Do I have to stop claiming to be the only granite stater in China?
And, yes, I hear the hoof beats of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse every time I have read about summer temperatures in the northeast this winter.
6 花崗齋之愚公 // Jan 25, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Laura,
Thanks for stopping by. It’s good to know there’s another granite stater out there in the Middle Kingdom. By the way, Kunming is great. If I had a choice of city in which to live, Kunming would be very high on my short list.
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