I Thought This Was January?
January in Indiana is what we Hoosiers refer to as “cold”. Now you folks up further north such as the Dakota’s would consider our “cold” rather balmy in comparison but to Hoosiers it’s still “cold”.
So here it is the 5th of January and as you can see by the timecode on this post it’s round about 1AM in the morning.
And it’s Fifty-Six degrees in my back woods. It is 55.9 at Indianapolis International Airport, 59 in Bloomington and 54 in Evansville and Terre Haute.
Now mind you I’m not complaining (as anyone following the number of Last’s in my Last Hurrah posts over the last couple of months will know). It isn’t often that in the first 5 days of the new year only one so far has been too cold to spend some time on a motorcycle and that was New Years Day itself. And even then I could have if I’d bothered to put hotter plugs in the Shadow.
Aside from motoring around the country side I also picked up a bit of a sunburn Tuesday out on the range.
But here’s the thing and don’t let them kid you. It is unusually warm but these weird highs are still falling 5-20 degrees below records highs as much as they’re 10-20 degrees above average. And some of those record highs are as much as 100 years old. Additionally if you go back to 1984 you’ll find December at least was just as weirdly warm as this past December. I’ve not gone back to check January 1985 because it takes time to check them one day at a time.
Most important, though, and what they don’t want anyone to realize and take away from their panic is that if this is global warming then what’s the problem? Heck, the fact that I’m sitting literally on top of a small chunk of Canada that was pushed down into central Indiana by a glacier is pretty compelling evidence that global warming isn’t some new but rather something very very old.