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Do you think the climate in the Ohio area is becoming more tropical?
It seems to me that the weather in Ohio is becoming more like the weather in the foothills and rain basins of tropical mountains than like out traditional weather. My friends say I am crazy, but I think in about 10-15 years the winters will be so mild and the summers will last longer. My predictions come from my reflections on the past 30 years I have been alive. I remember having deep snow for long periods of time at age 10 era, heavy snows throughout the winter but always melting away at age 20 era, and now at age 30, the snow comes at night and is gone in the morning before noon. I am detecting a pattern and I would like to hear other peoples theories and ideas on this topic.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
I have to agree with you, although I do not live in Ohio. I live in MN. I wouldn't say that things are 'tropical', but things are definitely changing around the globe. Like you, I remember as a child having deep amounts of heavy snow for long periods of time. Snow drift as high as 8 feet! The last 10 years snow amounts have never compared to what we got in the '80's. Although now days, we don't get snow that melts away by noon.....That is probably because MN is slightly more north that Ohio. Also, it really depends on the system that is passing through.
Good question....
Hope you get some fun answers!
- GnomeLv 61 decade ago
My family lived in southern Ohio and I have the impression that the winters are much milder now than they were when I was a kid, 45 years ago.
For a while, I thought it might just be the fact that the roads are cleared quicker now than they used to be.
That is partially true, of course, but there is the memories of snow drifts of 8 to 10 feet very clearly in my mind and weeks before being able to get out. And the cold seemed to last longer than it does now.
Now if you could classify it as "tropical" or not, well, that might be a little stretch, but I think it is definately warmer now than it was in the past.
