Here in Houston, the yards have lots of plants scattered around that look like they were consumed by fire. Black and charred, or light brown and wrinkled. REsult of the hard freeze that settled in a few weeks back. Lots of people had started putting out new plants now that Feb. is almost here. That's a traditional planting time in this coastal semi-tropic zone. It's hovering at 35F right now, and will probably freeze tonight if there are clear skies.
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Been living here a long time and this just never happens. not this bad. Sunspots? The so called Mauder minimum, which is theorized to have caused the cold spell in the Middle ages, was a time of extended duration with little to no sunspot activity.
Something is changing weather patterns, and not a one of the changes points to things becoming warmer, in this part of the world at least.
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