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Post by marchesarosa on Oct 2, 2012 3:55:34 GMT 1
Observations always trump hypotheses and models, nickrr.
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Post by marchesarosa on Oct 8, 2012 19:42:52 GMT 1
Over 1700 Record Lows Set In USA Last Week!Joe Bastardi informed us at Twitter that a huge number of cold temperature records were set last week in the USA. Isn’t the media silence deafening here as well? Joe writes: Wasn’t kidding around about 3rd major cold shot into summer's heart of hot. From Hamweather, record lows, and low maxes mapcenter.hamweather.com/records/7day/us.html?c=mintemp,lowmax,snow www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=fsd&storyid=87967&source=0COLD DRY CANADIAN HIGH PRESSURE ALLOWED TEMPERATURES TO TUMBLE INTOTHE TEENS AND 20S THE MORNING OF SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7TH, 2012. LIGHT WINDSAND ONLY SCATTERED HIGH LEVEL CIRRUS CLOUDS AIDED THE COOLING, BUTTHE LACK OF MOISTURE IN THE GROUND AND FROM VERY LITTLE PRECIPITATION IN THE PAST SEVERAL WEEKS ALSO CONTRIBUTED TO THE CHILLY READINGS. NORMALLY THE AREA DOES NOT GET THIS COLD UNTIL MID TO LATE NOVEMBER.NEW LOW TEMPERATURE RECORDS WERE ESTABLISHED AT THE SPENCER AIRPORT,THE SIOUX CITY GATEWAY AIRPORT, KICD RADIO AT SPENCER IOWA, WAKEFIELD NEBRASKA, LAKEFIELD MINNESOTA, AND WHITE LAKE SOUTH DAKOTA. THE FOLLOWING TABLE SHOWS THE DETAILS OF THE CHILLY MORNING: LOCATION..........LOW TEMP......PREVIOUS RECORD SPENCER ARPT ........13F.........19F FROM 2000 SIOUX CITY ARPT.....15F.........23F FROM 1974/2000 SPENCER KICD.........15F.........18F FROM 1974 WAKEFIELD..............17F.........18F FROM 1974 LAKEFIELD...............19F..........23F FROM 2000 WHITE LAKE.............19F..........20F FROM 1952 THE FOLLOWING SITES WERE CLOSE TO THE RECORD LOW...BUT DID NOT QUITE REACH IT... PIPESTONE...............18F.........16F FROM 1976 HURON ARPT............19F..........18F FROM 1952 YANKTON WNAX........20F.........19F FROM 1952 SIOUX FALLS............22F..........17F FROM 1974 WORTHINGTON.........22F..........20F FROM 1976 WES'TON SPRINGS....23F..........22F FROM 1900 PICKSTOWN..............26F..........24F FROM 1952 MITCHELL ARPT.........27F..........19F FROM 1952 MARSHALL................28F..........20F FROM 2000
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Post by marchesarosa on Oct 13, 2012 9:50:00 GMT 1
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Post by marchesarosa on Oct 14, 2012 9:49:08 GMT 1
From Dale in Australia 13 October Friday night was talking with my Pa. He’s been a commercial flower grower for 60 years in the same paddock. We were talking about how cold this winter was for Melbourne and he said, “I’ve been planting flowers in winter for 60 years. This is the first one in that time where the flowers failed due to it being so cold.”
He’s not scientific, but he’s got a point. It’s been damn cold here this winter.
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Post by marchesarosa on Oct 14, 2012 13:28:30 GMT 1
Siliggy notes on Warwick Hughes blog www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=1776Old newspaper reports“SNOW IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA. ADELAIDE, October 25 1899. The weather to-day has been exceptionally cold, and a heavy fall of snow is reported from Mt. Lofty.” The West Australian Thursday 26 October 1899 So the climate there is just like it frequently was more than 100 years ago. Nice to know nothing has changed that cannot be explained by natural cycles. “Snow Climax To Rough October” The Advertiser Adelaide Monday 31 October 1949 Then a few days later… “Nearly half an inch of snow fell on the Mt. Lofty sunmmit and many districts reported overnight hailstorms.”
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Post by marchesarosa on Oct 27, 2012 16:03:15 GMT 1
Worried about Hurricane Sandy? Unique? Unprecedented? God's sanction for messing with Mother Nature and emitting CO2?
Watch this
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Post by marchesarosa on Oct 27, 2012 16:17:00 GMT 1
Winds measured up to 186 mph in New England in 1938.
Let's see how "Sandy" compares IF Sandy actually makes landfall and becomes The Perfect Storm that some would, apparently, relish. From all the advance hype you would think it was a foregone conclusion! This is how alarmists today treat any climate extreme - as propaganda for their "cause".
There was the same advance hype about last year's Hurricane Irene and about Queensland's Tropical Cyclone Yassi . Neither delivered the climate apocalypse the alarmists and media were joyfully predicting and I would be surprised if Sandy did either.
We'll see.
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Post by marchesarosa on Oct 27, 2012 16:20:07 GMT 1
This scatterplot graph (by Steve Goddard) shows the relation between atmospheric CO2 concentration and landfalling US Hurricanes. There is no correlation between atmospheric CO2 and major hurricanes striking the US. The majority of landfalling US hurricanes occurred when CO2 was around 300 ppm, i.e., the 1950′s. Ambient CO2 is about 394 ppm right now according to the latest NOAA CO2 data. wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/26/brad-johnsons-malfeasance-masquerading-as-idiocy/#more-73141
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Post by marchesarosa on Nov 4, 2012 15:20:15 GMT 1
..... a few excerpts from the New York City Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan (April, 2009, here in PDF) www.nyc.gov/html/oem/downloads/pdf/hazard_mitigation/section_3f_coastal_storm_hazard_analysis.pdf will indicate that absolutely nothing about Sandy and its impacts should have been a surprise to anyone. It would be fair to ask NY politicians why the city was not better prepared for a disaster that it saw coming. The report is clear on the general characteristics that make the region susceptible to large storm surges: Coastal storms, including nor'easters, tropical storms, and hurricanes, can and do affect New York City. New York’s densely populated and highly developed coastline makes the City among the most vulnerable to hurricane-related damage. . . New York City is particularly vulnerable to storm surge because of a geographic characteristic called the New York Bight. A bight is a curve in the shoreline of an open coast that funnels and increases the speed and intensity of storm surge. The New York Bight is located at the point where New York and New Jersey meet, creating a right angle in the coastline. The figure immediately above comes from the report and shows that New York is no stranger to hurricanes. The report notes: According to hurricane probability models, there is a 2.6% chance a hurricane will impact the New York City area (New York City, Westchester, and Long Island) during any given hurricane season. During a 50-year period there is a 13.6% chance a hurricane will impact the New York City area and a 3.3% chance an intense hurricane (Category 3 or higher) will affect the City. These numbers suggest that NYC had every reason to believe that it would be just a matter of time before a storm of Sandy's magnitude (with a surge equivalent to a Category 2 strength storm) hit the city (and indeed there are numerous experts who said as much). According to the report, a Category 3 strength storm could bring 25 feet or more to NYC -- Sandy plus 10 ft. -- and according to the report such a storm has 3.3% chance of striking over 50 years. more here... rogerpielkejr.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/mayor-bloombergs-deft-climate-politics.html
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Post by marchesarosa on Nov 4, 2012 15:28:12 GMT 1
I have read criticisms about New York not having installed floodgates on the Metro entrances since it was known that precisely this kind of flood would recur eventually.
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Post by alancalverd on Nov 4, 2012 18:18:39 GMT 1
The inescapable fact is that nearly all humans live within 20 miles of a coastline, and coastal populations and population densities are continually increasing. So even if the climate stays constant, hurricanes will do ever-increasing amounts of damage.
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Post by marchesarosa on Nov 4, 2012 20:59:36 GMT 1
Well put, Mr Calverd.
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Post by marchesarosa on Dec 21, 2012 18:03:51 GMT 1
Spare a thought for people in Russia. Its the coldest winter since 1938. Temperatures may hit -25 in Moscow this weekend. They have already hit -50C in Siberia. Twenty-one people froze to death in one day. (See the Telegraph photo gallery)
Down to -50C: Russians freeze to death as strongest-in-decades winter hits
Russian Times
Russia is enduring its harshest winter in over 70 years, with temperatures plunging as low as -50 degrees Celsius. Dozens of people have already died, and almost 150 have been hospitalized.
The country has not witnessed such a long cold spell since 1938, meteorologists said, with temperatures 10 to 15 degrees lower than the seasonal norm all over Russia.
Across the country, 45 people have died due to the cold, and 266 have been taken to hospitals. In total, 542 people were injured due to the freezing temperatures, RIA Novosti reported.
The Moscow region saw temperatures of -17 to -18 degrees Celsius on Wednesday.
Over the weekend, meteorologists predict temperatures will plunge even lower in the Moscow region, hitting -25. The Russian capital is also expected to be swept with snow, RIA Novosti reported.
Temperatures have been 7 degrees lower than the norm for five days already, which is considered an anomaly, according to the Meteonovosti.ru website joannenova.com.au/2012/12/its-a-deadly-cold-russian-winter-minus-50-in-siberia/
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Post by mrsonde on Dec 21, 2012 18:33:18 GMT 1
It's not just Russia. Most of North America have also seen record breaking low temps. It's been the coldest across the Balkans for 70 years too. I note the global warming lobby have recently come up with a rationale accounting for this - some mish-mash of a supposition that the gulf stream weakens, and the jet stream gets diverted further south as warm air accumulates over the Arctic. Thus we'll get colder winters as the planet gets warmer and warmer - and if we don't, that's because the planet is getting warmer and warmer too. And if the summers get colder as well, then that will be because...oh, something like more heat makes more clouds which shields out the sun, making it seem cold, but actually it's really getting warmer, it's just getting stored in the oceans, or something...They won't stop until the global temp records show a marked and steady fall for a decade, or probably two...Then they'll all start jumping on the solar driver bandwagon...No, we weren't wrong, it's just that no one could have predicted such a remarkably inactive sun...Except all those scientists (currently labelled "deniers" and "cranks" funded by oil companies no doubt) who did, and have done for the past 20 years or more.
The upshot for the population at large is that never again will "scientists" be trusted, especially when there is a purported "consensus". That may be the only good thing to come out of this whole fiasco.
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Post by marchesarosa on Dec 22, 2012 12:00:18 GMT 1
"...remember 2010 when there was the big heat wave in Central Russia in the summertime when temperatures soared over 100°F. “An unmistakable sign of global warming!” the media shrieked for days and days. But now that it is deadly cold. with dozens freezing to death every day, there’s not a peep about that in the warmist media. No, we don’t want to report that. Hansen will probably just chuck out that reading anyway...." P Gosselin notrickszone.com/2012/12/21/61f-in-siberia-gee-now-im-so-worried-about-the-permafrost-melting/#comments
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