What is up, with the weather ?

[gotsnowgotslush]

Anomalies.


Only eight tornadoes had been documented in the entire month of December in the Sunflower State prior to 2016, making the Christmas Day 2016 event the most tornadoes of any December day on record dating to 1950.

Furthermore, these Christmas Day tornadoes occurred during the late-morning hours, a rather unusual time of day for Kansas tornadoes, reflecting how these brief spin-ups were along a squall line forced by a cold front, rather than discrete supercells in warm, humid air ahead of a dryline or cold front, as more typically occurs.

Sioux Falls, South Dakota, reported Christmas Day thunderstorms for the first time on record, as Winter Storm Europa was hammering the western part of the state.


https://www.wunderground.com/news/christmas-tornadoes-kansas-2016

 

[Iceprincess12]

Why worry about something you have no control over?

Have a Happy New Year instead!

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Destructive Storms Soak, Batter And Bury Communities Around The Country

January 23, 201711

Governor Deal Expands Emergency Declaration After South Georgia Storms

"Our folks are going to be down there doing assessments throughout the next possibly several weeks,” said Catherine Howden with the Georgia Emergency Management Homeland Security Agency. “But we are hearing and seeing images of extensive damage in various areas.”

http://gpbnews.org/post/governor-de...mpaign=Feed:+gpbnews/AtlantaRSS+(Atlanta+RSS)

 

[bhurry]

Why worry about something you have no control over?

Have a Happy New Year instead!

God did it.

 

[Iceprincess12]

God did it.

I think God probably had a great new year!

 

[phrodeau]

I think God probably had a great new year!

Is God a Trump supporter? Watch out for the golden showers.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

February 23, 2017


It’s frightening. I’ve never seen this before,” said Scott Aker, head of horticulture at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Arboretum. In his 20 years on the job, he’s witnessing a first.

The lilacs have broken bud,” he said.

This has been a bizarre month, where thousands of high-temperature records have been set nationwide. It was 79 in Nebraska and 74 in Moline, Ill. Dallas has hit 80 degrees 11 times.

As my colleague Jason Samenow at the Capital Weather Gang put it: “The weather this February keeps getting weirder.”



Abnormal weather patterns are everywhere. It’s 70 degrees in the nation’s capital during the same winter that my California home town has gotten 25 feet of snow.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture had to shift the planting map five years ago, moving botanical hardiness zones because of the changing temperature trends.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...rid_collaborative_3_na&utm_term=.2f31c252411b

 

[BotanyBoy]

Still snowing in NorCal.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

A weather system that spawned 20 plus deadly tornadoes in the Mid West. The East Coast, from Virginia to Maine were visited by winds that killed people.

A March 12 tornado in Midland County, Michigan, was the first tornado north of Interstate 96 in that state before March 20 dating to 1950.

Downed trees killed 40-year-old James Marcelynas in Columbia, Connecticut, and a second person in Oxford, Massachusetts, the Associated Press reported. Both victims were in vehicles crushed by the falling trees.

This week is an odd one, for Boston. Warmest day for the record for the month,, followed by coldest day on record for the month, in one week.


Arctic’s new abnormal

It’s a time of tumult in the Arctic, with record temperatures and extraordinary sea-ice conditions now becoming the norm. For starters:

Sea ice observed in January in the Arctic was the lowest in the 38 years of satellite record offsite links and 100,000 square miles less than 2016. That’s equivalent to the size of Colorado.

The average temperature of 4.4 degrees F in Barrow, Alaska, from November 2016 through January 2017 shattered the old record of 0 degrees set between 1929 and 1930. From 1921 to 2015, the average November-to-January temperature in Barrow was -7.9 degrees F.

Temperatures in the Arctic for the calendar year 2016 were by far the highest since 1900. Each of the past four years was among the top 10 warmest on record.


http://www.noaa.gov/news/unprecedented-arctic-weather-has-scientists-on-edge

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

He says this stop-and-go behavior makes it much more challenging to predict how much syrup his farm will produce because New England winters are not as long and steady as they used to be. Many maple syrup producers have also noticed lower sugar content in their trees’ sap. If there’s lower sugar content per gallon, that means they need to harvest more sap to make a gallon of syrup.


Tewnty five years of producing maple syrup in the same area.
Seven years, ago, a noticeable difference in weather patterns
2017 Maple tree sap with very little sugar content.



“Everything is different now," Forbes said. "We have these periods of warm-cold extremes.”

While Forbes says the harvest usually evens out by the end of the season, he is one of many maple farmers across New England who say the erratic weather is wreaking havoc on production.

Tufts University ecologist Elizabeth Crone may know why. Crone has led research on the decrease of sugar content in maple trees. She says when plants and trees are stressed out, they drop more seeds.

“They'll invest more of their resources in producing seeds that can go hopefully to somewhere else where the environmental conditions are better and they'll use fewer of their resources for growing and surviving and defending themselves," she said.


http://news.wgbh.org/2017/03/20/news/can-maple-syrup-industry-weather-effects-climate-change-0

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

The remnants of ex-Cyclone Debbie have been pushed out to sea

March 30, 2017
March 31, 2017 Australia Time

The NSW State Emergency Service deputy commissioner, Mark Morrow, said the floods could be more severe than those of 2001 and 2005. The 2005 floods resulted in the installation of the city’s protective levee, which has failed to keep today’s flood waters at bay.

“What that means to people listening this morning is that most of the businesses in the Lismore CBD will have up to three metres of water over the floor,” Morrow said.

“Evacuation orders are in place. They’re there for a reason. It’s for people’s health and safety … take our advice and move out of that area.”


https://www.theguardian.com/austral...-in-lismore-as-80000-lose-power-in-queensland

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

So weird.

Mixed results falling from the sky, all at the same moment. Snow flakes the size of quarters plummeting to the ground, hail, sleet, and tiny snow flakes. There must be very strange layering in the sky.

Is this what we inherited from Texas ? I will take giant soggy snowflakes, over hail the size of footballs.

Continuation of icy spots on the road, that we had this week.

The sea, the Great Lakes, Canada, Mount Washington, the Southern coast, the West's Tornado Alley, and what ever is lurking at the tip of Florida, all send something up to Boston. Goodness knows, the Europe coast across the pond, contributes, too. I am just happy, that it does not all happen at the same time

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

With severe storms bearing down on Augusta National, the club has been shut down for the second time this week.

Masters officials suspended play at 1:25 p.m. Wednesday, cutting short the final afternoon of practice before the start of the tournament as well as the popular Par 3 Contest.

Fans were ordered to leave the course as line of dangerous storms swept across the Deep South, sparking tornado warnings in Georgia and neighboring South Carolina.

Augusta National also was forced to close Monday because of heavy rains.


http://www.nydailynews.com/newswire...e-central-kentucky-reported-article-1.3020048


"...for the first time in its 57 years, the Par 3 Contest at the Masters Tournament was canceled. Because of inclement weather and safety concerns, Augusta National Golf Club was forced to suspend play and eventually evacuate the grounds at 1:25 p.m. for the rest of the day."

That necessitated the cancellation of the Par 3 Contest, which had a delayed start because of a morning wave of storms. The grounds were closed for the first time.

masters dot com

(site throws a hissy fit about quoting)

 

[Chris_Michael]

Let me tell you, I lived in Augusta. The storming there compared to in Savannah is unreal, and that place floods easily. It's crazy. I thought Savannah flooded badly. Augusta is bad.

I worked like 2 minutes away from the Masters for one year. That week is the worst week ever. It takes like an hour to get to work if you live 5 minutes away. People are on the sides of the road with huge signs offering thousands of dollars to buy tickets. And they run out in the middle of the highway while traffic is stop-and-go.

People get into fights, and some people even get robbed at gunpoint.

Now, Augusta is mostly black. But these motherfuckers are white people. White people are some crazy motherfuckers during Masters week. Fuckin nuts.

I'm back in Savannah. I'm glad, too. Fuck Augusta. It sucks balls. There are no good places to hang out, no hot women compared to Savannah, and it just sucks.... fuck Augusta.

 

[chillywilly2]

Its all in your head. The weather is just fine.
Perfectly normal spring day here...10C and a bit of sun, kinda windy.
Winter saw a normal high amount of snow, it was a tad warm but that beats the last 2 years when it was quite cold.

If you don't like hurricanes and tornadoes don't live where they are common

And golf courses are just toxic waste dumps for fertilizer and bug killer anyway...no real need to have them on the planet

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

https://mobile.twitter.com/theresphysics

There are many groups around the world who collaborate to advance the field while competing for the most realistic simulations. Owing to the chaotic nature of the atmospheric circulation (often depicted by the flap of a butterfly’s wings changing the future weather), the detailed day-to-day weather cannot be forecast accurately more than about two weeks into the future. Many repeated computer runs with small perturbations in initial states (forming ensembles) are used to bring out the robust features. This is done even for two-week weather forecasts and is essential for climate simulations.

For climate, this means dealing with the statistics of weather. For instance, just as the weather in every winter is different, the character of winter is quite different than summer; those aspects can be simulated well. Hence the focus is on the average, the character and the variability of weather, rather than the instantaneous values.

This does not imply that we cannot predict anything, even hundreds of years from now. In much the same way as we can predict the orbits of planets around the sun for millions of years, so climate models tell us that ice will melt in a much warmer world and sea level will rise as a consequence. It takes thousands of years for the Earth to come to a new equilibrium climate even if we stop emitting carbon dioxide, and winter will still be colder than summer even in a much warmer world. The reason we can make such predictions is that the laws of physics 500 years from now are the same as today.



http://theconversation.com/yes-we-c...3?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitterbutton

This week's worldwide announcement, was dire news

AUSTRALIA’S GREAT BARRIER REEF SUFFERS HISTORIC LEVELS OF DAMAGE FROM BLEACHING

4/10/17

http://www.newsweek.com/australia-great-barrier-reef-historic-levels-damage-bleaching-581297



(What the fuck ? How can any of the following statements be made without shriveling into non- existence, due to unendurable shame? Delingpole is a cunt. And not the wonderful kind.)

"...predictably, Delingpole turns to a local newspaper in Australia, which says the GBR is fine, although he does admit that it's "local dive operators saying this stuff and, of course, they have a vested interested in keeping the tourist industry alive". In return though, all he can spout is the tired old rhetoric of scientists having 'vested interests'.

It does seem though, judging from Delingpole citing comments made by Russell Reichelt, the chairman of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, in The Australian, that there is some misunderstanding of the scale of bleaching among some researchers. In response to an investigation by Professor Terry Hughes and his National Coral Bleaching Task Force Reichelt apparently says:“I don’t know whether it was a deliberate sleight of hand or lack of geographic knowledge but it certainly suits the purpose of the people who sent it out. This is a frightening enough story with the facts, you don’t need to dress them up. We don’t want to be seen as saying there is no *problem out there but we do want people to understand there is a lot of the reef that is unscathed.We’ve seen headlines stating that 93 per cent of the reef is prac*tic*ally dead”

Delingpole seems to take this as somehow giving him permission to claim the GBR "isn't in the remotest danger", which is quite clearly incorrect, judging by Reichelt's 'frightening enough' remark.

In support, Delingpole turns to an essay by Jim Steele, an ecologist apparently. Ah, but yes, Delingpole doesn't turn to any old ecologist, he turns to a climate sceptic 'ecologist'. Actually, Steele is more than climate sceptic, he is an outright denier.


What else is there in Delingpole's case of, so-called, evidence?


http://energyandenvironmentblog.********.co.uk/2017/04/image-australian-government-great.html

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Are there any sane people in the Trump White House ?

At this rate, there will not be many sane people left.

The insane people installed by Trump have replaced some of the sane people.

I suppose that the few sane people remaining, will be driven insane by Trump's appointees.


EPA Staffer Retires With a Scathing Letter to Climate Change Denier Scott Pruitt


A deeply disturbing message about where this country is headed


Mike Cox worked for the Environmental Protection Agency for 25 years, and retired last week — with a blistering letter to the anti-environment ideologue appointed by Donald Trump to head the agency, Scott Pruitt.

Cox’s letter blasts Pruitt and Trump for their dangerous anti-science attitudes, calling Pruitt’s statement that carbon dioxide does not contribute to climate change “shocking” and comparing it to tobacco company executives denying that smoking causes lung cancer.


http://littlegreenfootballs.com/art..._Letter_to_Climate_Change_Denier_Scott_Pruitt


Emperor Carrot has been telling lies to the public for decades. He hired people that will lie for him.


Does it not make sense, to surround yourself with liars, and make it more difficult for the media to focus on one particular lie of yours ?

(Surround yourself with body guards, and make yourself harder to target. Why fight your attacker off, yourself ? Provide the attacker with plenty of other targets, and it is possible that you will have time to form a better way to defend yourself. By the time he gets to you, you might be long gone!)

In the Case of Emperor Trump, it might be old news, by the time everything concerning his entourage, family, cabinet, advisors, administration, and supporters has been covered. The wackos belonging to some of the Alt Right organizations tend to be involved with eye popping situations, such as mass murder and invasions of private property and government property. A metaphorical bullet with Emperor Carrot's name on it, has far to travel, and many people to get through. By the time it gets to him, it really matters how radioactive it is, with Emperor Carrot's particular Kryptonite. Which is the Russia connection scandal.That particular bullet may have failed to get past his enormous neck tie, but it is still smoldering away in his suit pocket. Sooner or later it will fry his suit and shirt, until he appears naked in public.Warts, and all!)




What was Emperor Carrot saying and doing while everyone was focused on Kellyanne Conway's "Bowling Green Massacre"?

"The administration has disputed critical coverage of last week’s special operations raid at an Al Qaeda compound in Yemen, insisting it was a success despite the death of a U.S. Navy SEAL and the reported deaths of up to a dozen women and children."

http://www.latimes.com/politics/was...thout-evidence-that-1486435101-htmlstory.html


What did Emperor Carrot do to keep the fragmented issue, diffuse ?

Days after a senior White House aide complained that the news media had failed to report a nonexistent “massacre” in Kentucky, President Trump suggested Monday that journalists deliberately ignored terrorist attacks.

“It’s gotten to a point where it’s not even being reported,” Trump said in remarks to troops at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla. “And in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn’t want to report it. They have their reasons and you understand that.”

http://www.latimes.com/politics/was...thout-evidence-that-1486435101-htmlstory.html

 

[KingOrfeo]

Why worry about something you have no control over?

Have a Happy New Year instead!

People do follow sports, you know, but nobody but the players (and arguably the refs) has any control over the outcome of the game.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

"Experts said it could be because of uncommonly strong winds and possibly global warming."



http://www.standard.co.uk/news/worl...-iceberg-drifting-off-the-coast-a3517926.html

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Tornado survivor, in Georgia

She stands on her property. The tornado tore her house apart, while she was it it.

"Radar evidence suggests a tornado touched down in east Talbot County before crossing into Taylor County, lifting in the Carsonville area."

"...a wide swath of trees snapped and one home damaged along Rock Church Road. Also in Talbot County, a wide swath of trees were snapped off and thrown across Highway 208 and Parham Road. Two homes were damaged, one significantly."

National Weather Service says they expect to survey the damage Friday but they "have very high confidence it was a tornado."

http://wgxa.tv/news/local/at-least-one-injured-in-suspected-tornado.

Moved in a straight line.


http://wgxa.tv/news/local/potential-tornado-destroys-talbot-co-womans-home

Strange phenomena were explained, away in New England. A tornado could not possibly happen this far East! The scientific explanations were flawless , and applicable. Then, a tornado appeared, outside of the newly formed Tornado Alley East.

Baby, things have changed.


41 dead humpback whales have washed up on beaches from Maine to North Carolina in the last 18 months. 10 of the 20 whales that have been examined so far, were killed by collisions with boats. Normally, eight or so whales are lost , due to ships, over a year. Nothing unusual in disease, infection, or toxin exposure. NOAA's Unusual Mortality Event investigation could take months or years to complete.


The International Whaling Commission banned the commercial humpback whale hunt in 1966,

Feds Remove Humpback Whales From Endangered List
Some Humpback Whales Taken Off Endangered Species List, put on Threatened List

Unforseen Consequences

Hawaii Fishermen’s Alliance for Conservation and Tradition to delist the North Pacific humpback whale and the state of Alaska to remove the Central North Pacific (Hawaii) stock of humpback from the list of endangered and threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2016/humpback-whales-09-06-2016.html

September 7, 2016

It removes endangered species protections for the Hawaii population that migrates to Alaska and the West Indies population that feeds off the U.S. East Coast. It also reclassifies the Mexico population that feeds off the U.S. West Coast as threatened.



Whales that are still considered endangered include populations in Central America, off northwest Africa, in the Arabian Sea and in the western north Pacific. And a population near Mexico is listed as threatened. Whales from the Central America and Mexico populations travel through U.S. waters at certain times of year as they feed in areas off the West Coast and Alaska.

 

[Iceprincess12]

Have you straightened out mother nature yet? Or at least figured her out?

We had a lightning storm the other day, luckily not a lot of scary thunder. In honor of mother nature and her persistent pms, here is a link to lightning myths and info that could possibly save your life. I've pasted some of the more popular myths in case you are link averse, like me!!

http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/myths.shtml

Lightning Myths and Facts
Myth: If you're caught outside during a thunderstorm, you should crouch down to reduce your risk of being struck.
Fact: Crouching doesn't make you any safer outdoors. Run to a substantial building or hard topped vehicle. If you are too far to run to one of these options, you have no good alternative. You are NOT safe anywhere outdoors. See our safety page for tips that may slightly reduce your risk.

Myth: Lightning never strikes the same place twice.
Fact: Lightning often strikes the same place repeatedly, especially if it's a tall, pointy, isolated object. The Empire State Building is hit an average of 23 times a year.

Myth: Rubber tires on a car protect you from lightning by insulating you from the ground.
Fact: Most cars are safe from lightning, but it is the metal roof and metal sides that protect you, NOT the rubber tires. Remember, convertibles, motorcycles, bicycles, open-shelled outdoor recreational vehicles and cars with fiberglass shells offer no protection from lightning. When lightning strikes a vehicle, it goes through the metal frame into the ground. Don't lean on doors during a thunderstorm.

Myth: A lightning victim is electrified. If you touch them, you’ll be electrocuted.
Fact: The human body does not store electricity. It is perfectly safe to touch a lightning victim to give them first aid. This is the most chilling of lightning Myths. Imagine if someone died because people were afraid to give CPR!

Myth: If outside in a thunderstorm, you should seek shelter under a tree to stay dry.
Fact: Being underneath a tree is the second leading cause of lightning casualties. Better to get wet than fried!

Myth: If you are in a house, you are 100% safe from lightning.
Fact: A house is a safe place to be during a thunderstorm as long as you avoid anything that conducts electricity. This means staying off corded phones, electrical appliances, wires, TV cables, computers, plumbing, metal doors and windows. Windows are hazardous for two reasons: wind generated during a thunderstorm can blow objects into the window, breaking it and causing glass to shatter and second, in older homes, in rare instances, lightning can come in cracks in the sides of windows.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Massachusetts

The investigation marks the fourth time NOAA has declared an unusual mortality event for humpback whales since 2000. It launched similar investigations in 2003, 2005, and 2006.

The latest investigation was announced a day after state authorities told fishermen they would not be allowed to set traps and pots in Cape Cod Bay until May 7.

Over the past month, state officials counted more than 200 endangered right whales feeding in the area, an unprecedented number.

The concentration corresponds with “extraordinarily high” amounts of plankton, right whales’ preferred food.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...hale-deaths/rMIwVQM2N6rqcaLU4XFJhN/story.html

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

When a weather term is invented, because the occurrence is difficult to explain- example- "liquid blizzard."

When an anomaly occurs, more and more frequently, at an accelerating rate.

"Near St. Clair, the historic Bruns Bridge was destroyed by floodwaters, officials told the Missourian. The bridge was built in 1888, according to Bridge Hunter, and spanned the Meramec River. A replacement was built in 1993, but the original bridge was never brought down."

https://www.wunderground.com/news/fl...-midwest-south

Worst Is On the Way for Mississippi River As Communities Upstream Begin to Find Some Relief


Strange trend, that began thirty years, ago-

A lifelong resident in tears, over the destruction of their home, with the complaint that nothing like it had happened in 30 years. The removal of a landmark, that had stood for a hundred years, plus. Replaced, because old iron deteriorates. Only to have the new landmark destroyed, a few years later, by an anomaly.

A tale, passed down from a great-grandparent, of a once in a life time experience. The child of the great- grandson looks on, at the new destruction. This just happened, last year! Now, it has happened, again.

 

[trysail]

Face it, some people are neurotic about weather and climate. I don't know if that's a symptom of co-dependence or another diagnosable condition. One week, when it's hot, they start babbling about "global warming." The next week, when it's cold, they start yapping about "climate change."

Medieval peasantry couldn't have been more superstitious.

"If you don't know who you are, the stock market is an expensive place to find out."

-"Adam Smith"
(nom de plume of George Goodman)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Goodman​

​

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

The fact that it’s slightly warmer, and that spring is happening earlier is actually sort of appealing," he said. "I mean, because New Englanders, we face very harsh winters. But it’s really an indicator of problems that will be coming in future decades.”

That’s the contradiction built in to the research Primack’s doing. Like Thoreau, and like the rest of us, he feels joy in discovering a new bloom or leaves on a tree that was bare just days before. But for Primack, there’s also something troubling in the arrival of spring.


http://news.wgbh.org/2017/05/04/sci...eres-something-troubling-about-arrival-spring