It’s been a while
We have apparently had the heaviest snowfall Edinburgh has seen in half a century although it is thawing fairly rapidly now (ahead of more arctic blasts forecast for next week). You might have thought that this would have given me plentiful opportunities to update the blog but, alas…
The bulk of the past few days has been occupied either by walking to and from work through a foot and a half of snow or trying to dig our way out of the said snow at the front and back of the house only to see more fall on the freshly cleared areas. We have also watched the guttering and part of the soffits of the roof of the house opposite come down with the weight of snow and ice and have been trying to avoid the same fate befalling us; succesfully.
Of course the internets have, in assorted nooks and crannies, been getting fractious about climate change (“how can it be warming when it’s cold outside?”) Aside from ignoring unseasonal warmth elsewhere because they can’t see it out of their window, there is an interesting question arises. On the one hand if you put more energy into the system then you are going to get more extreme events at both the hot and cold ends of the possibilities. Moreover, since Edinburgh sits on the same latitude as Labrador to the west and Moscow to the east the weather is kind of what you would expect were it not for the Gulf Stream. On the other hand, this is not a million miles away from the winters I remember in the seventies and early eighties in East Kilbride so this could be cyclical. Who knows?
I don’t, but I do know that either way it makes sense to pay more attention to the possibility of entering a period of hard winters and to plan accordingly. Yaktrax for the shoes are already sorted but I will shortly be stocking up on better snow shovels and other paraphenalia.
It also informs my plans for my man-shed (no, I haven’t forgotten it!).
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