Unfortunately, yes. I just saw some photos from various end of December times. It’s depressing (although non-white Christmas photos are not the worst effect of climate change).
So true. The only way I have a white Christmas is there is a huge hail storm and everything is covered a few cm deep of ice.
It has happened once a long time ago. Driving home on a hot day it became eerie. There was ice on the side of the road and it was melting, there was a fog rising from the road which was green from leaves and branches.
I turned off the highway and went up the road towards my place. A bit up the road, there is a powerline clearing, looking down the hill to the left this clearing bisects my property which is further across the valley.
The amazing thing is from that point on, the amount of debris lessened. At my house a few branches here and there some ice up against thing where the sun can’t get at it.
The only casualty was the shade cloth of my shade house. It filled with so much ice it just sagged until it split. The split wasn’t above plants either.
Sorry for the story length
Don’t apologise for lengthy stories. I find it fascinating. In South Africa we only ever had that much hail in spring. One was so bad that all the car lots got covers in the aftermath because of the dents made in the roofs of the cars. – In Munich, they had a hailstorm in the 1980s. With hailstones some as big as tennis balls. When a radio station promised to give a cash prize to whoever brought a hail stone from that storm. They were overwhelmed by hundreds of people who had kept one in their freezer all that time.
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Poor bears.
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Quite. And us people, too.
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Poor all of us, indeed.
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Very poignant environmental post Elke
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Unfortunately, yes. I just saw some photos from various end of December times. It’s depressing (although non-white Christmas photos are not the worst effect of climate change).
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So true. The only way I have a white Christmas is there is a huge hail storm and everything is covered a few cm deep of ice.
It has happened once a long time ago. Driving home on a hot day it became eerie. There was ice on the side of the road and it was melting, there was a fog rising from the road which was green from leaves and branches.
I turned off the highway and went up the road towards my place. A bit up the road, there is a powerline clearing, looking down the hill to the left this clearing bisects my property which is further across the valley.
The amazing thing is from that point on, the amount of debris lessened. At my house a few branches here and there some ice up against thing where the sun can’t get at it.
The only casualty was the shade cloth of my shade house. It filled with so much ice it just sagged until it split. The split wasn’t above plants either.
Sorry for the story length
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Don’t apologise for lengthy stories. I find it fascinating. In South Africa we only ever had that much hail in spring. One was so bad that all the car lots got covers in the aftermath because of the dents made in the roofs of the cars. – In Munich, they had a hailstorm in the 1980s. With hailstones some as big as tennis balls. When a radio station promised to give a cash prize to whoever brought a hail stone from that storm. They were overwhelmed by hundreds of people who had kept one in their freezer all that time.
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I am sure my friend kept his hail stone from a storm a couple of weeks ago, it was as big as his wifes hand. The hail smashed the windows on his car.
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