Just to say hello & introduce myself

[Coley]

Hello, welcome and enjoy this addictive forum.

from Coley

[clover green]

Hi Snowhound, welcome to the wonderful world of WAB. Am pleased to meet & greet you! Hope you get your wish, but we dont seem to get very much snow these days, (could it be global warming, I don't know??). It certainly snowed more & lasted for much longer when I was a kid. It seems to have got milder here, during the last 15-20 years & the weather is certainly more unpredictable?
Hope you enjoy the site, have fun, see you on the boards.

[snowhound]

Hi Clover Green,

Thanks for your warm welcome. Yes the world's weather patterns certainly do seem to have changed (and are still changing) and whether it's to do with global warming - who knows. Some scientists say it is - others say it's normal for the world to undergo natural climatic changes and that it has been doing so for millions of years. What I am wondering, is what effect the slowing down of the Gulf Stream will have on Britain and Europe. Again, some say it will eventually shut down and plunge Britain and parts of Europe into a mini ice age - others say not. If it does happen, we will certainly have to make some rather big adaptations. The world's climate does indeed appear to have become more unpredictable with more frequent storms, floods and droughts. My uncle writes to me regularly from my homeland of New Zealand, and the weather there seems more bizarre than it used to be. And not so long ago, people in Queenstown saw great icebergs floating in the ocean (some as big as houses!) which had obviously broken off from Antarctica. Now that's certainly a first! So the climate is definitely heating up for some reason or another. Snowhound

[coasty]

Welcome snow hound,,,, Look forward to your posts