U of M Prof Explains Late Snow

November 15, 2006

A professor at the University of Mammoth suggested this week that the ski season isn't going to happen anytime soon.

"Weather patterns just aren't right," said Prof. Charles Offenburger, who presented evidence on Wednesday, Nov. 15, that a large mass of hot air centered over Washington, D.C., could be responsible for this November's dry spell.

"If you take all the politicians, then stir in all the media, particularly the cable TV people, you're talking about some real global warming back there," he said. Offenburger said he also noticed similar hot air patterns over Sacramento and Reno, Nev., as well as public radio stations KPFA and KQED in Berkeley and San Francisco.

"We haven't seen anything like this since 1976," he said, referring to a back-to-back November and December snow shutout in Mammoth. "Those would be the Carter years," he noted.

"In those years, Carter's major initiatives included the consolidation of numerous governmental agencies into the newly formed Department of Energy, a cabinet level department. He enacted strong environmental legislation; deregulated the trucking, airline, rail, finance, communications, and oil industries; bolstered the social security system, and appointed record numbers of women and minorities to significant government and judicial posts."

The volume of hot air released in Washington over all those issues is very similar to the weather pattern we see today, the professor said.

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