Global warming report for Septermber 29, 2012

redrumloa

redrumloa

Active Member
Moderator
Joined
Apr 2, 2005
Messages
14,973
Reaction score
2,156
After record cold and record snowfall last year in Anchorage, Winter has come early with snow this year.

“I really like winter here but I’ve heard the coming winter may be like last year,” says Shirley Germaine who has weathered 47 winters in Anchorage so far. “That was just too much snow to have year after year after year.”​
​
Memories from last year’s record snow may be why snow blowers started selling in July at some local Lowe's stores. And why appointments to switch to snow tires at Alaska Tire Service are filling up fast.​
Click to expand...
 
"Biggest scam in human history."
:lol:
 
Nice Anchorage is looking semi normal. The continential USA is still in a drought. Over the last month it's grown to 85%. Minnesota just stepped out of the hottest 9 consectutive months on record. It's still slightly warm but closer to normal. The drought has come to Minnesota in the last 8 weeks. We're at best 3inches but many places closer to 6 inches below snowfall.

Long Range forecast for Minnesota is a warm winter very similar to last year's record warmth.

As for today - Average high temps are 65 degrees. We're at 81 already and have a few more degrees to go. Though a few days ago we had one of the earliest snows in Northern Minnesota. Not that it stuck around mind you.
 
Florida is about the only place in the US getting rain.
 
faethor said:
Florida is about the only place in the US getting rain.
Click to expand...
well, we get rain in NY. However, it's generally not the normal kind.

these days it comes in drenching downpours. I have had to run down and turn on the sump pump many times these last two years.
In the past I only needed to turn it on once or twice a year.
 
its funny... the people who are against climate change like to really hammer the "global warming" part of things... ooooh its cold today, in arizona, thats not warming... and they point to that and say "hell its cool here now, can't be climate change". shift the baselines so nobody notices that north dakota is getting kansas' weather, or that kansas feels like texas now, and texas feels like some gawd awful place that even insects don't care for anymore...and hey didn't the temperature used to be a bit hotter around 30,000 years ago for a year? its a normal cycle... lol. meanwhile the rivers are dead and dying, and where that isn't happen they are getting record flooding... its all obamas fault... :confused:
 
faethor said:
This will help you get a look at the whole continential USA. US Drought Monitoring
Click to expand...

I don't deny there has been a drought in parts of the country and it has been very bad in some states. I just get worked into a froth when it is connected as proof of Global Warming. A few years back we had a rather dry period, for Florida, of about 15 months which was being called a "historic drought" and proof of Global Warming. Since then went to average rain, then above average rain and this year OMGTWF rain.

Weather goes in cycles, always has always will. AGW alarmists claim MWP didn't really happen and now are claiming the dust bowl didn't really happen so this year's "historic drought" is proof of Global Warming. In a couple years it will be something new. Remember back in ~2005 we were told Global Warming brought us the increased number of hurricanes and severity of hurricanes? How's that working for you this year? Even your onetime hero Al Gore put it in his AGW bible. ;)
 
I will say I'm somewhat surprised my area is listed as only "Abnormally Dry." It's been one of the drier summers I remember. Though we came off last year which was a record wet year. (shrug)
 
redrumloa said:
Weather goes in cycles, always has always will.
Click to expand...
Yup. And the cycles also have trends. But don't worry too much about it. If Al Gore was on the right side of science you'll be dead before it gets too bad. It's your kids that'll have to deal with what we did.
 
South Florida swamped in one of its wettest years; more rain likely to come
Some consolation to those who dread the summer heat: all the rain and clouds kept temperatures slightly cooler than normal.
Click to expand...
OMGWTF! Teh true global cooling
This year's gush of rain shows how quickly Mother Nature can switch gears, as South Florida was experiencing "exceptional" drought conditions – the most dire category on the scale set by the weather service – as recently as the spring and summer of 2011. Wildfires broke out
Click to expand...
Yeah for about 18 months leading up to summer 2011 we were bombarded with articlers about how the "historic drought" was due to Global Warming and was the new norm. What happened?
water supplies were strained and the level of Lake Okeechobee dropped 2 feet below normal.
Click to expand...
Gee it dropped 2 feet below normal? I see the very careful wording here. 2 feet below normal would have been no problem if the dumb asses at SFWMD hadn't drained the lake by 3 feet in 2008 in preperation for Al Gore AGW Hurricanes that never came.
 
In other news, Lake Okeechobee is being drained again. The dry period fom 08-09 was called a "historic drought", mainly because these idiots drained the lake in preperation for AGW hurricanes that never hit. We'll see how far they drain the lake this time and if they start crying "historic drought" the next time we have a dry week next year.
 
@Red,

I wanted to update you on Minnesota. Oct has been cool. Not overly so but it appears we'll end this month about a degree below average. This will end a consecutive 16 month trend of higher than average months.

Winter 2012-2013 Forecasts are just being made available. It appears this year is trickier, than normal, to forecast because some of the key predictors (El Nino for example) were expected but aren't happening. LINK The Minnesota forecast is a slightly warmer than average winter (similar to last year) and a below average snowfall. The driness is expected to continue. We get around 56 inches of snow a year. We'll see what happens.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top