I live in NY-Putnam County right near Danbury CT. I am so sick of snow. I stayed home today, and I have been missing about one day per week of work since 12/26/10. I am using up my vacation time, but I work about an hour from my house so the alternative is a 3 hour ride each way, if I can even get there. We had snow this morning, now it stopped, and it’s supposed to be freezing sleet and ice later on and into tomorrow (Wednesday).
They say we are in a weather pattern now, melted ice at Arctic means that ice is no longer reflecting the sun back and so therefore it has done something to the weather down here. Supposedly it’s going to be this way for the next few years, at least.
What I have been thinking is so this year we have been getting one to two feet every week. About twice weekly we have some kind of snow. We have record January snowfalls in New York. What happens if it gets to be two times this bad next year or in years to come? Will we have four foot snowfalls instead of two food snowfalls? Will it snow every other day instead of once per week? That will have serious implications for snow removal, transportation, the delivery of public services, the economy, all kinds of things.