

Some parts of the country have already reached the ominous threshold of a 2-degree Celsius rise in temperature, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels. But worldwide, each of the last five years was among the five hottest ever recorded, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the last two decades have included 19 of the warmest years since record keeping began. I realize that one year does not signal a shift in climate, which is marked by 30-year trends in temperature and precipitation, and that climate is not to be confused with weather. Some songbirds heading north on their annual migrations, governed by changes in light, will arrive too late for the feast of insects whose emergence is set off by warmer temperatures. Mild winters are unable to beat back invasive pests like the hemlock woolly adelgid, many of which will die off only at 4 or 5 degrees below zero. When clumps of snowdrop flowers appear prematurely next to my driveway, their comely blossoms a harbinger of spring, I think of all the other mismatches unfolding in nature. While others excitedly share photos of crocuses in bloom in early February, well ahead of schedule, I wince. When merchants and shoppers make small talk about the luck of a 60-degree day in January, I pipe up that it’s not luck, but climate change. Still, winters without snow should be noted, and mourned, at least in my small corner of the globe, about five miles north of New York City. It is a taste of the world we have sown with runaway carbon emissions. Catastrophic floods ravaged Southeast Asia. Fearsome heat waves swept across Europe in France, nearly 1,500 died. Australia’s people and animals succumbed to horrendous fires that burned an area roughly the size of South Korea. With climate change startling the world with its acceleration in recent years, a lack of snowfall is admittedly among the least of anyone’s worries. So far this winter, Central Park has recorded just 4.8 inches. On March 7, 2003, my opening on one such article was simply “Ugh.” It wasn’t just that it was snowing in March, but that it had already snowed so many times that winter that Central Park had recorded 45 inches, double the seasonal snowfall average then of 22 inches. I used to document those snow events for The New York Times, where I often had the task of writing the weather story from my perch in the White Plains bureau. (This winter the school district has yet to use one.) And the occasional blizzard would reliably bury our yards and streets under two or three feet of snow.


But as recently as 10 or 15 years ago, our children could expect a handful of snow days a year, sometimes using up their five-day allotment. 18, with a few inches of accumulation that lasted a couple of days. This winter the rain has been so unrelenting that mud season has stretched across the once-frigid months of January and February. Not like Vermont or the Adirondacks in upstate New York, where it snows on and off all winter, barely registering a mention at the corner store.īut in Westchester County, N.Y., and other parts of the Northeast, you could reliably turn the calendar from November to December and know that if there was going to be precipitation, it would probably arrive in the form of snow, not rain. Critical reception Ībout the film, the Bloody Disgusting website remarked, "Most everything about Let It Snow is under-cooked, from the relationship between Mia and Max to the larger mythology that the two find themselves tangled in.HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. The film was released on video-on-demand on Septemby Grindstone Entertainment Group.
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Separated from her boyfriend after sneaking onto a restricted slope, Mia, a free riding snowboarder, must survive not only against nature but also the masked snowmobile rider in black who's out for her blood. It was released on Septemby Grindstone Entertainment Group. The film was written by Kapralov and Omri Rose, and stars Ivanna Saknho, Alex Hafner, and Tinatin Dalakishvili. Let It Snow is a 2020 horror-thriller film directed by Stanislav Kapralov.
