I was trying to think about what I enjoyed the most about a cold morning on my way to work. Here are a few things that just popped into my mind: Holding that warm coffee cup, steaming endlessly while I wait on the station for the train. Watching strangers awkwardly huddle together without touching or making any eye contact. Lighting the first cigarette of the day feels so damn good (fuck, I gotta quit). Turning your back to the wind as it picks up in your direction. Chap-stick. Feeling your hands start to go numb because you forgot your gloves. Seeing your breath every time you exhale. Shaking your legs almost as if you had to pee. Repeating in your head over and over again “Fuck it’s cold”. Yeah, that is why cold mornings are great….
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Cold mornings
Early spring or global warming?
6:30 AM and I am getting ready to leave the house for work, I put on my pea coat, wrap a scarf around my neck and pack some gloves in my bag. It is early January and experience has taught me it is cold around this time of year in NY. I step outside and it is unusually warm, as I walk to the train station a drop of sweat runs down my forehead. I start to get uncomfortable warm with all the layers I am wearing and have to take my scarf off as it begins to make me sweat. I ask myself, it’s January why am I warm?!
The north eastern united states has been plagued by unusually warm weather. Some claim that it is due to global warming, others that is just a temporary climate shift. Records show over the past hundreds of years temperatures have been steadily climbing:
“Meteorologists say the warm spell is due to a combination of factors: El Nino, a cyclical warming trend now under way in the Pacific Ocean, can lead to milder weather, particularly in the Northeast; and the jet stream, the high-altitude air current that works like a barricade to hold back warm Southern air, is running much farther north than usual over the East Coast. “
This could very well explain the strange weather, yet I believe it is due to global warming. Records show that after the industrial revolution CO2 levels have sky rocketed.
Who knows? The northeast might be experiencing a warm winter but the plains have been plagued with blizzard after blizzard. Mother nature has truly gone haywire.
I sure hope it just a temporary change and that this is not a result of our wreck less damage to the environment. Let say this continues year after year, we might not have a winter after all. But lets leave all the worrying to the meteorologists and enjoy the warm weather while it’s here! BBQ anyone?