Once something sprouted out of a microwaveable dish-turned-bird feeder Kathy Schongar didn’t expect: a five-inch stalagmite-like icicle.
“What was I looking at? How did it get there?” Shongar asked Mike Haddad, inside the Peterborough Community Center Friday.
“Darn, that’s a good question,” replied Haddad. “Weather never ceases to amaze me.”
Wacky weather – from floods, to ice storms, to unseasonable snowstorms, to tornadoes – was the subject of Haddad’s presentation to 30 senior citizens. Haddad is the chief meteorologist for WMUR.
Bill Ellerkamp shared a memory from his childhood in Long Island, New York.
In 1938, when Ellerkamp was 4, he woke up one morning to find sailboats in his front yard.
A sea storm beached boats from the harbor. Ellerkamp said he turned to his father and said: “Dad, can we keep them?” Haddad overviewed weather phenomenon in New England.
He talked about major floods, the December 2008 ice storm, tornadoes, a heavy October snowstorm and this year’s strong El Nino.
Andy Dunbar asked if these weather events are a product of global warming. Haddad’s answer was diplomatic. Haddad said there’s no question the earth is warming. It’s unclear, however, how much this warming is solely because of mankind.