No Snowball Fight For You!
All around North Georgia on March 08, young people were having snowball fights, but not in Atlanta. If you looked at the weather channel radar loop, you saw that the snow moved toward Atlanta, but the hotter air let the moisture remain in the air and so though it snowed north of Atlanta, East of Atlanta, West of Atlanta, and South of Atlanta, the snow could not make it through our heat bubble.
This is not, per se, evidence of global warming, but it does show the kind of heat generated from the city. What that means is less weather. Weather is good. We like weather. If you think “Dude! It’s Cold! You’re Crazy!” Let’s remember a few things:
1) It’s winter. It’s supposed to be cold, and you’re supposed to be able to have a good snowball fight.
2) July is coming and then you’ll be complaining about the heat and your electricity bill. I’ll happily accept the cold now for less heat later.
Most important though is that the inability of weather to get through Atlanta does show we are having an environmental impact. When it’s that visible, one has to wonder what less visible effects there are, and how we can fight them.