Season's Greeting 2015

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Wishing you all a peaceful holiday season, here's my tribute to it. (Click on the image.)


-- Marge

Cartoons: Extreme weather and El Niño

Believe it or not November 2013 was the warmest year on record globally, according to a TIME magazine article (subscription needed to read the full item), "El Niño Is On Its Way:"

For many Americans, 2013 ended with an unusually bitter cold snap. Late November and December saw early snow and bone-chilling temperatures in much of the country, part of a year when--for the first time in two decades--record-cold days will likely turn out to have outnumbered record-warm ones. But the U.S. was the exception: November was the warmest ever globally, and the provisional data indicates that 2013 is likely to have been the fourth-hottest year on record.

Enjoy the snow now, because chances are good that 2014 will be even hotter--perhaps the hottest year since records have been kept. That's because, scientists are predicting, 2014 will be an El Niño year.

With the coming heat in mind, here are a few cartoon celebrating (sort of) cold and snow.

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Dave Granlund, Cagle

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Jimmy Margulies, Cagle

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Randy Bish, Cagle

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Had enough?

-- Marge

Counting down to longer days

Here in Alaska, as the days grow shorter and darkness takes over, we begin to count the days until the winter solstice.  There are things to see in winter, though, like the snowplows performing a pas de deux in the center of my circle.

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Snowplow pas de deux (pic taken through the window screen)

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Anchorage, today about noon, light fog layer

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Barrow, today about noon, looking out to sea

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Counting the days...

-- Marge