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It was -53 here this morning.
Now it is -41.
I hope it warms up more.
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Re: This Has To Be The Warmest Winter Ever [Re: Boutang]
#15735951 - 01/29/12 10:03 PM (12 years, 1 day ago) |
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Patlal
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Re: This Has To Be The Warmest Winter Ever [Re: Boutang]
#15735974 - 01/29/12 10:13 PM (12 years, 1 day ago) |
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Boutang said: It was -53 here this morning.
Now it is -41.
I hope it warms up more.
Jevus.
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Re: This Has To Be The Warmest Winter Ever [Re: Patlal]
#15735982 - 01/29/12 10:16 PM (12 years, 1 day ago) |
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After that freak snow/ice storm right before Halloween I was sure this winter was going to be complete shit but have been pleasantly surprised. Warmest January I can remember in a long time
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Re: This Has To Be The Warmest Winter Ever [Re: gzuf]
#15736012 - 01/29/12 10:24 PM (12 years, 1 day ago) |
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It was seasonably cold for maybe a week, the kind where it is -40c with windchill, and you don't leave your house unless you have to. They cancel school on those days not because of snow but because of the cold. Only one week of that weather, compared to the usual month of January. In fact we have had more 'melty' days than unmelty days this January I presume. It certainly is a warm winter.
Alternatively, during the week of the supercold weather my car battery did freeze and I had to get a new one. Freakin eh!
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Re: This Has To Be The Warmest Winter Ever [Re: atayia]
#15736745 - 01/30/12 02:14 AM (12 years, 1 day ago) |
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 We're almost to the apex of the historical records the next 100,000 years we will probably be cooling into another iceage.
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Re: This Has To Be The Warmest Winter Ever [Re: Idiot]
#15736761 - 01/30/12 02:25 AM (12 years, 1 day ago) |
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i've never seen epicness graphed over time, sweet
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Re: This Has To Be The Warmest Winter Ever [Re: Patlal]
#15736822 - 01/30/12 03:07 AM (12 years, 1 day ago) |
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The golden heart of 907.
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The weather has also been odd here in northern California. It has been a really dry winter, we're below normal as far as precipitation goes. We had one day of light rain in December, and 3 days of rain so far this January. The mountains would usually have at least 15 to 20 feet of snow at this point of winter, right now they have 3 to 6 feet at most. Most of our December was cold, it was dipping damn near into the teens, which is cold for around here. And most of this January was on the warm side, there were a few days I could of got away with wearing a shirt, shorts, and sandals.
I'm just bummed that it has been so dry, I haven't been snowboarding yet this season because it is not worth going, and very few mushrooms (of any sort) have been fruiting.
Here is what a meteorologist has to say about all this, and if you follow the link there's a few graphs and a bit more on the weather this past year.
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/article.html
What do climate scientists think? Some scientists have proposed that previously unknown natural causes could be responsible for global warming, such as a decrease in cloud-producing galactic cosmic rays. Others have proposed that the climate may be responding to the heat-trapping effects of carbon dioxide by producing more clouds, which reflect away sunlight and offset the added heat-trapping gases. These theories have little support among actively publishing climate scientists. Despite public belief that climate scientists are divided about the human contribution to our changing climate, polling data show high agreement among climate scientists that humans are significantly affecting the climate. A 2008 poll of actively publishing climate scientists found that 97% said yes to the question, "Do you think human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures?" In my personal experience interacting with climate scientists, I have found near-universal support for this position. For example, I am confident that all 23 climate scientists and meteorologists whom I am personally acquainted with at the University of Michigan's Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Science would agree that "human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures." It is good that we have scientists skeptical of the prevailing consensus challenging it, though, because that is how scientific progress is made. It may be that one of the scientists making these challenges will turn out to be the next Einstein or Galileo, and overthrow the conventional scientific wisdom on climate change. But Einsteins and Galileos don't come along very often. The history of science is littered with tens of thousands of discredited scientific papers that challenged the accepted scientific consensus and lost. If we rely on hopes that the next Einstein or Galileo will successfully overthrow the current scientific consensus on climate change, we are making a high-stakes, low-probability-of-success gamble on the future of civilization. The richest and most powerful corporations in world history, the oil companies, have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to push us to take this gamble, and their efforts have been very successful. Advertising works, particularly when your competition has little money to spend to oppose you.
Where is the climate headed? The 2007 United Nations-sponsored IPCC report predicted that global temperatures between 2007 and 2030 should rise by an average of 0.2°C (0.36°F) per decade. The observed warming over the past 30 years is 15 - 30% below that (but within the range of uncertainty given by the 2007 IPCC climate models.) Most of the increase in global temperatures during the past 30 years occurred in the 1980s and 1990s. The 2000s have seen relatively flat temperatures, despite increasing CO2 emissions by humans. The lower-than-expected warming may be partially due to a sharp decrease in stratospheric water vapor that began after 2000. The missing heat may also be going into the deep ocean waters below about 1,000 feet (300 meters), as part of a decades-long cycle that will bring extra heat to the surface years from now. Regardless, the laws of physics demand that the huge amount of heat-trapping gases humans are pumping into the atmosphere must be significantly altering the weather and climate, even if we are seeing a lower than predicted warming. As wunderground's climate change blogger, Dr. Ricky Rood said in a recent post,Changing the Conversation: Extreme Weather and Climate: "Given that greenhouse gases are well-known to hold energy close to the Earth, those who deny a human-caused impact on weather need to pose a viable mechanism of how the Earth can hold in more energy and the weather not be changed. Think about it."
Our recent unusual weather has made me think about this a lot. The natural weather rhythms I've grown to used to during my 30 years as a meteorologist have become significantly disrupted over the past few years. Many of Earth's major atmospheric circulation patterns have seen significant shifts and unprecedented behavior; new patterns that were unknown have emerged, and extreme weather events were incredibly intense and numerous during 2010 - 2011. It boggles my mind that in 2011, the U.S. saw 14 - 17 billion-dollar weather disasters, three of which matched or exceeded some of the most iconic and destructive weather events in U.S. history--the "Super" tornado outbreak of 1974, the Dust Bowl summer of 1936, and the great Mississippi River flood of 1927. I appeared on PBS News Hour on December 28 (video here) to argue that watching the weather over the past two years has been like watching a famous baseball hitter on steroids--an analogy used in the past by climate scientists Tony Broccoli and Jerry Meehl. We're used to seeing the slugger hit the ball out of the park, but not with the frequency he's hitting them now that he's on steroids. Moreover, some of the home runs now land way back in the seats where no one has ever been able to hit a home run before. We can't say that any particular home run would not have occurred without the steroids, but the increase in home runs and the unprecedented ultra-long balls are highly suspicious. Similarly, Earth's 0.6°C (1°F) warming and 4% increase in global water vapor since 1970 have created an atmosphere on steroids. A warmer atmosphere has more energy to power stronger storms, hotter heat waves, more intense droughts, and heavier flooding rains. Natural weather patterns could have caused some of the extreme events we witnessed during 2010 - 2011, and these years likely would have been naturally extreme years even without climate change. But it strains the bounds of credulity that all of the extreme weather events--some of them 1-in-1000-year type events--could have occurred without a signicant change to the base climate state. Mother Nature is now able to hit the ball out of the park more often, and with much more power, thanks to the extra energy global warming has put into the atmosphere.
Extreme weather years like 2010 and 2011 are very likely to increase in frequency, since there is a delay of several decades between when we put heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere and when the climate fully responds. This is because Earth's oceans take so long to heat up when extra heat is added to the atmosphere (think about how long it takes it takes for a lake to heat up during summer.) Due to this lag, we are just now experiencing the full effect of CO2 emitted in the late 1980s; since CO2 has been increasing by 1 - 3% per year since then, there is a lot more climate change "in the pipeline" we cannot avoid. We've set in motion a dangerous boulder of climate change that is rolling downhill, and it is too late to avoid major damage when it hits full-force several decades from now. However, we can reduce the ultimate severity of the damage with strong and rapid action. A boulder rolling downhill can be deflected in its path more readily early in its course, before it gains too much momentum in its downward rush. For example, the International Energy Agency estimates that every dollar we invest in alternative energy before 2020 will save $4.30 later. There are many talented and dedicated people working very hard to deflect the downhill-rolling boulder of climate change--but they need a lot more help very soon.
From http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/article.html
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Re: This Has To Be The Warmest Winter Ever [Re: openmind]
#15751930 - 02/02/12 02:24 PM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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stupid groundhog..
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Re: This Has To Be The Warmest Winter Ever [Re: orison]
#15751950 - 02/02/12 02:33 PM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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Being a big snowboarding enthusiest...i fucking hate this shit.
We only have a few MTs in AZ,but usually get 200-400" a year...right now wr havent gotten SHIT.Im losing my mind over hurrrrr.Its like 76 right now.fuck this noise!!!
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Re: This Has To Be The Warmest Winter Ever [Re: Solo_Dolo]
#15751990 - 02/02/12 02:48 PM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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I feel like the generation that's old right now, was extremely good at tearing shit up and not giving a second thought about it. Even talking to alot of them, their still cocky and selfish.
I laugh about this old guy that was soooo fat he needed a walker to get around work, and he'd sit their and listen to rush limbaugh radio while bringing everybody down in the workplace.
Accoring to him "THERE IS NOTHING, absolutely nothing humans could EVER do to affect the earth or the climate."
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Re: This Has To Be The Warmest Winter Ever [Re: SpecialEd]
#15752165 - 02/02/12 03:35 PM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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been pretty hot in my area too
hope the summer isn't too hot balls sweating gets sticky
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Re: This Has To Be The Warmest Winter Ever [Re: Solo_Dolo]
#15757903 - 02/03/12 08:57 PM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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Solo_Dolo said: Being a big snowboarding enthusiest...i fucking hate this shit.
We only have a few MTs in AZ,but usually get 200-400" a year...right now wr havent gotten SHIT.Im losing my mind over hurrrrr.Its like 76 right now.fuck this noise!!!
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Re: This Has To Be The Warmest Winter Ever [Re: FeedingMyDreams]
#15758039 - 02/03/12 09:39 PM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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people in Arizona usually go to New Mexico to snowboard/ski. It was 60 today, now it is like 29 here.
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reeferaddict69 said: Global warming?
If so, God bless!
Only shitty part about these warm snaps in the winter is that the temperature fluctuations contribute to people getting sick.
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Re: This Has To Be The Warmest Winter Ever [Re: Mush 4 Brains]
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algore got us again
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Re: This Has To Be The Warmest Winter Ever [Re: Salomon]
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Salomon said: algore got us again
he's such a fucking TOOL
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Re: This Has To Be The Warmest Winter Ever [Re: orison]
#15758123 - 02/03/12 10:00 PM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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orison319 said: stupid groundhog..
yea, phil can eat a dick
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