Recent “strange” weather might be worse for us than good
It was 66-degrees yesterday here in Northeastern Pennsylvania and today it was around 50 and is raining right now. In “Hotlanta” (Atlanta, Georgia) it was snowing (or so reports the National Weather Service).
Update: Atlanta also had some fun dealing with a Tornado that did quite a bit of damage.
What does all this weird weather mean? This question was asked of a few people playing frisbee at a park yesterday in our area and one man said “Hey, it saves me on my heating bill.” and I thought the same thing. However, it may do us more harm than good.
Matt W. of Metroblogging Philadelphia jotted down a recent conversation he had while pumping gas:
One of the employees comes out and strikes up a conversation with me. “This is pneumonia weather,” he says. “A lot of people don’t know that cold kills bacteria. Warm weather allows bacteria to grow.”
Very interesting if you ask me. Something I’d not really thought of was the “downsides” to all of this strange weather. Sure, we might save a few dollars on our heating bills - but will our health, local natural life, or other things suffer? I think so.
Why am I blogging so much lately? Not sure. Perhaps a new trend.
[tags]weather, weird, atlanta, georgia, pennsylvania, metroblogging philadelphia[/tags]
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January 7th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
My father in law who’s really into history. Was telling me the other day, there was this saying in the 1800’s that is something to this extent.
Until the first frost the graves will fill. It was basically that until you have sustained freezing, germs and illness spread and back then that was death.
January 7th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Diana: Thanks for sharing, I think. Haha.
January 8th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
In Concord, NH it reached 68 degrees, it was beautiful, I spent the day out shopping for new cars, yeah 2007 Mustang GT WILL be in my driveway by spring :-p, I got home from that and spent 2 hours on the phone with my son Colin in Scotland, it was snowing there HAHAHA, and in seconds the skies turned black, lightning walloped our neighborhood, and small hail pelted us for about 20 minutes and just as soon as it started, it vanished. It was amazing! I will say this as well, until we get a good snowstorm, and I mean like half a foot at least, flu and colds will continue, snow and extreme cold tend to sterilize the air we breathe.
Glad you guys enjoyed the day out, my counsin Louise is in Towanda PA and enjoyed it too!
Be Well!
Liam
January 9th, 2007 at 12:31 am
Liam: Nice to see we’re not the only ones with strange weather. GT Huh? Be sure to post photos.
January 9th, 2007 at 11:10 am
I will certainly upload them
torn between colors right now. I have a 1992 Mustang GT that I bought brand new for myself as a graduation gift from college, It has 37,000 miles and still looks brand new, that car is heading to Glasgow Scotland for Colin’s 18th birthday, I wonder what Scotland will think of Flowmasters 
Liam
January 20th, 2007 at 11:28 pm
The weather has been odd for quite a while. It will just get worse as time goes by, let me ask you something… Have you noticed a change in the way that people behave as well? I know this may sound odd to you, but I have been trying to talk to people that have been noticing things..changing. I just want to know that my fiance and i aren’t alone. We’re in Florida right now and people just aren’t acting right. I think everything’s connected. If you want to talk more email me or whatever :o) Thanx! Eden