So you think this winter, summer, fall, rainfall was more extream than any other time in your life?????

There is always that one person in your family who like to tell you stories of the good old days where life was really tough and they had to walk through snow clear up to their nose in the winter and you don't know how easy you have it. Our memories at best can be faulty at best and everything seems much worse depending on your perspective. The winter of 2014 my coworkers tried to convince me was the coldest and snowiest winter ever to which I laughed. "I was alive in 1976 and you we were buried up to our eyeballs in snow" I told them all.

 

Winter of 2014 snow pile.

 Now we can all stop playing "you never had it so bad" and help keep track of the "changes" we think we see and we all get to claim we are working with NASA!

The iSeeChange app (yes, another app) lets you document the changes you see around you. Got a favorite flowering tree which you swear bloomed three weeks earlier than it did last year. Then grab your phone snap a pic and then post your observations and then as others in your are make postings or observations. Some where a group of data nerds will start looking for patterns in observations and help us all try to make sense of how climate change is alerting the world around us. 

So, if you have a weather gauge in your back yard or are just obsessed with proving to all of your fields that your allergies, snow shoveling, bugs in your back yard were worse than they have ever been during the history of your existence then you can look at what others in your area are saying or log your observations and see what the scientist think.

Oh by the way if you're a science teacher this would be an awesome way to work on that climate change lesson plan and do a little citizen science.

More information:
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-weather/blogs/you-can-help-nasa-track-climate-change-your-phone