gloomy isn't unusual in northwest indiana in the middle of decemmber...neither, as i recollect, is a lack of snow...it has been raining instead...the snow would seem to have shifted south which in and of itself is unnatural but there is no climate change...right?...we verge on a rant here and those belong on a different blog...so..for now we will say that the weather here falls within "normal" parameters but the climate is getting angry and that could change any time...
the road home from an early quitting time took me east into the more rural section of the nexus and it seems that a lot more of the corn has come in during the last six days...stubble everywhere...and a few acres here an there that had been tilled under...
and it was in those turned fields that i could see standing water or the indications of the erosive effect it has where it once stood..it has been above freezing fro almost a week and what ground that was frozen has thawed...if the precipitation continues as rain instead of there being a hard freeze and snow, not only is my winter wheat crop going to suffer, there will be some late year erosion that usually waits until spring...tons of topsoil are lost here every year...a changing weather pattern isn't going to help that...i will have some time again to keep an eye on the weather 9 beyond planning a commute to work ) and on the conditions i see around me...there are convincing lines of evidence supporting climate change to be had locally...easily as valid and as empirical as those of any climate scientist...you can learn a lot in microcosm.
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