Actually, what you describe is precisely what the experts say
about global warming or climate change. It isn't just a case of
everybody's weather getting hotter although it certainly
happens. It is a case of more extreme weather including extreme
cold. The over all average temperature is warmer than it has
ever been recorded but that puts more water in the air and you
get more rain in some places, less rain in others and snow
irregularities such as more in some places and lesss in others.

	We have a state senator from Oklahoma who is a vocal
climate-chage denier who was chortling like a maniac a couple
of years ago when it snowed a lot in Washington, D.C. He
blathered away on TV about what a hoax it all was and even built
an igloo to make his point. The experts basically said, "Yup, we
expected it."

	It mostly means nastier weather everywhere, disruption
to agriculture and bugs and weeds spreading in to areas where
they weren't known before.

	I think climate is changing, but I am not going to get
in to the argument as to what effect people have on it. There is
more CO2 thanks to burning oil and forests and it is likely that
this is having some effect.

	The amount of nitrous oxide in the air is higher than it
was around 1900 due to lots of car tail pipes around the world
and this actually absorbs radio signals around the AM broadcast
band and 160 meters so we do have some effect on our environment.

colin McDonald writes:
> well, we've been having a very wet summer here so far.
> We're on the prairies, where it is supposed to be somewhat damp in May and
> June, then hot and dusty for July and august.
> We've had so much rain here.  I have never seen this much rain since I've
> been here; 11 years.  Old timers say they have never seen it rain this 
> much
> in one year, let alone over the space of two or three months.
> We haven't yet hit a day time high of 30C which usually happens by the end
> of the first week in July.
> Global warming? not here lol.
> Last winter was long, and had more days below minus 15C than any winter 
> for
> something like 40 years.  We had a record snow fall last winter as well.
> We've got record mosquito populations as well...again, more already this
> season than anything on record for this region.
> That is mostly to do with the rain and standing water.  So, it's been 
> rainy,
> less than hot, and one cannot go outdoors without liberally coating 
> oneself
> with mosquito repellent.  And, it seems as though the little buggers have
> mutated to the point where the stuff attracts them instead of repelling
> them.
> So send some of that Oklahoma heat up this way.
> 
> 6M has opened occasionally acording to a couple guys I've talked to.  
> also,
> 10M has had some nice openings into south america and Europe.
> 
> I worked the republic of Jorja, 9A7R on tuesday evening on 20M as well as
> P43E in aruba.
> 
> We seem to get very good paths on 20 into south america as well this time 
> of
> year.
> 
> 73