Did I hear that correctly on the news.
A Cold Blob?
Moving down the East Coast and inducing an earlier than usual hurricane season? We haven’t even finished winter yet, thanks to the delayed and continuing cold fronts and snow, and now a Cold Blob?
When I was little, we were familiar with terms like Hurricane, Cyclone, Squall, Nor'easter, Front, Sleet, Hail, Blizzard, Waterspout, Tornado, Flood, Barometric Pressure. I don’t remember hearing about El Nino or La Nina, yet with a simple Google search, I found out they’ve been around for thousands of years. I don’t remember hearing about Derechos or Graupels or Firenados or Polar Vortexes, let alone a Zud, but then, maybe my reticular activator wasn’t tuned in to the weather.
I think the real reason for my weather ignorance is our electronic connections. All of those weather phenomena were occurring, they were just outside of my pocket of knowledge. They didn’t seem to impact my corner of the world, so I didn’t hear about them.
When I moved to Colorado in the late 70s, I learned a new term: chinook - a warm, dry, gusty wind on the leeward side of the mountains, so it seems it did take travel back then to expand my weather vocabulary. Now, all I have to do it open up my laptop and on any of my social media sites, or turn on the news, and I will learn something new.
But I just don’t know if I really want to know this Blob character. Can Newfoundland and Greenland just reel that one back in?
Thank you for sharing 
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