Can You Say...

[Thomas]

Actually, WOW and KC, this weather pattern of cool and damp in the Northeast is part of the global climate change pattern--so I'm told.

The "warming" part of the climate shift is hitting certain areas of the globe, and that causes weather patterns that can (and will) create areas of cold. Overall, the process of warming the earth and the oceans is supposed to lead to the next ice age--too long and scientific an explanation for that for me to even try.

Oddly, even though we have had a cool, damp summer and early winters for two consecutive years, we still see plants extending their growing seasons and animals that don't belong here now living here. Our first and last frost periods don't arrive when they used to, and the rains and snows that we do have are not only more prevalent, they are much more violent.

Being close to agriculture in the Finger Lakes for 26 years, I am certain that the climate has changed and continues to change. I just don't know why or where it is going.

To bring it to wine, when I moved here in 1984, a person would have had to have been an idiot to plant Merlot. Still is, but to a lesser degree...



[This message has been edited by foodie (edited 10-14-2009).]