Its been 34 degrees the last few days here in Minnesota in the middle of January. Events like this kind of make you wonder.
It does make me wonder. It makes me wonder how soon the next wave of blizzards will be descending on the area.
It's true - in Houston, for a few weeks. Around the world, it's been warmer than average for the most part: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/map/images/fnl/sfctmpmer_07a.fnl.anim.html That's what GW is - more extremes, with more cold and more hot, but a total average of more hot.
yeah, i was driving around all day for work and had to turn on my a/c...in january! and 2 weeks ago it was record cold...what gives yallz? now these drastic swings in temperature arent conclusive on their own about global warming one way or another, so there is no need for anyone to have a cow. but, taken together, these kinds of events are enough to make one wonder....
These swings are not drastic. It happens like this every year. But wondering is a good thing, so I am glad to see you are on board with that anyway.
As stated, there is a difference between climatology and meteorology. In the last year, the heat and cold waves have come about 4-6 weeks earlier than normal.
Brrrrrrr!! It looks like the Atlantic seaboard is under assault from a big time blizzard. In fact, it appears that it may actually turn out to be the most severe winter storm in that region ever recorded. [RQUOTER]Powerful Blizzard Delivers Punch to Capital WASHINGTON — A blizzard packing strong winds and heavy snowfall pounded the capital and surrounding areas Saturday, killing at least two people and paralyzing parts of the region. The National Weather Service (NWS) put the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area under a rare 24-hour blizzard warning until 10:00 pm Saturday (0300 GMT Sunday). The storm, dubbed "Snowpocalypse" and "Snowmageddon" by many locals, stretched from Indiana to Pennsylvania and into parts of New York and North Carolina, creating treacherous travel conditions, shutting Washington area airports and leading several states to declare emergencies. The inclement weather was deemed responsible for at least two fatalities -- a father and son who were hit by a tractor-trailer on a road in Virginia when they stopped to help a stranded motorist, local media reported. Forecasters said the Washington region would be hardest-hit, describing travel conditions in the area as "hazardous and life-threatening." The NWS forecast up to 30 inches (76 centimeters) of snow in the capital region, which would shatter Washington's 88-year-old record snowfall of 28 inches, in the "Great Knickerbocker Storm." That blizzard, which slammed the region in January 1922 got its name from the collapse of the Knickerbocker Theatre in Washington which killed nearly 100 people.[/RQUOTER] Maybe we can get a few pictures of the aftermath of this beast posted a little later.
A blizzard in the northeast in winter? OMG, that's crazy. lol. Now tell me Mojo, what does this tell us? Temperatures up there are cold but not nearly record breaking cold. February record low for Baltimore is -7 for example. Isn't the point of your post to somehow try to disprove Global Warming by checking the weather outside? If anything doesn't the increased snowfall strengthen climatologists long standing argument that we would see an increase in this type of event?
It's like this past summer with record highs and record droughts never happened in your mind. Seem to be having severe weather all the time now.
I am not attempting to "disprove" anything. This is a noteworthy winter weather event that I am posting about in the "Remarkable Weather" thread. If warm weather patterns are noteworthy, why shouldn't cold weather patterns be noteworthy as well? So, chill. As far as the proposition that every notable weather event is evidence of the alarmists new and improved "climate change" theories, that is even more ridiculous than the pure AGW alarmism mantra that was popular until just a few yew years ago. In fact, you guys were better off with the unadulterated warming stuff. Someone has to be especially oblivious to the world around them to not know that the climate changes constantly, and has done so for as long as the Earth has circled the sun. Seriously, this revised "climate change" meme is not believable, and attempts to promote it have done more to discredit your little movement than it has to advance it. You guys would be well advised to stop this nonsense as soon as you can. It is not serving your purposes very well at all.
Lets just rename this thread to "mojoman uses anecdotal evidence to disprove climate change". For his next trick, mojoman will disprove the myth of racism by posting pictures of black people and white people not killing each other, or in some extreme cases, actually living in harmony.
As I stated in my previous post, only a numbskull would not know that the Earth's climate changes constantly, and has done so for as long as the Earth has revolved around the sun. So, I am obviously not trying to prove or disprove anything of the kind.
India forms its own climate change body, cites IPCC's over-reliance on anecdotal evidence and false claims. -------------------- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/en...7590/India-forms-new-climate-change-body.html
Wait -- why aren't my Indian colleagues part of the same vast international evil science conspiracy to hoodwink people into thinking climate is changing with the end goal of just being sneaky? Many IPCC scientists are in fact living in and working in India, and many of those not in India were born in India. HOW DID THEY BREAK THE SPELL! WE MUST GET THEM BACK! PS -- Brian Cook had a nasty dunk last night. I think I'll go against all basketball experts, Rockets management and his own teammates and predict he'll make the hall of fame. He's in for sure. I mean, did you see that dunk?
"The snow is piled up in front of the West Wing of the White House in Washington Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. Mid-Atlantic residents were buried by a blizzard that the president jokingly called 'Snowmageddon.'" From a yahoo.com slide show of 'Snowmageddon' pictures
