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Central PA Spring 2026 Discussion/Obs Thread
Yardstickgozinya replied to Voyager's topic in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
Where has @Itstrainingtimebeen . It's been well over twenty four hours since he's made a post. -
Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change
donsutherland1 replied to donsutherland1's topic in Climate Change
He's not a practicing meteorologist. He works for an organization that largely rejects AGW. Regardless of his position and employer, he should post accurate data. It's difficult to know why he would post information regarding Phoenix that is so obviously wrong (112° in March, 100° on March 3, and 7 100° days in March during 1879), especially as Phoenix is a high-profile city and, by its nature, has resources that can be found through research. -
Absolute values given taken snapshot are not the same as longer-term values. In the end, it's what occur over a long period of time and how it all averages out, rather than individual events. And what you chose as a period of time matters. We tend to think in very short time periods, contaminated by recency bias and the lack of full knowledge of wx history. And the concept of "wins the debate" is a flawed premise. What matters in science is facts and the truth. It does not care about who "wins" or "loses."
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Central PA Spring 2026 Discussion/Obs Thread
Yardstickgozinya replied to Voyager's topic in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
I was just looking at some of the meso scale parameters, myself, I was quite surprised to find thermo dynamic fields were still quite meage to non existent, at this hour, however some instability and a few other meso scale enhancements appear to be adventing into our area from the west as I write this . Kinematic fields are definitely starting to show some enhanced parameters. -
Apparently we're getting a quarter to an inch of rain tonight. Models all over the place
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Central PA Spring 2026 Discussion/Obs Thread
MAG5035 replied to Voyager's topic in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
First 80+ of the year here, all the way up to 82ºF currently on a stiff SW breeze. I already like the severe potential today more than the setup last Monday. We don’t have anywhere near the shear/helicity parameters so tornado threat will be more minimalized. Wind and hail will be the primary threats with this. Regarding CTP disco’s previous concerns about cloud cover, SW and SC PA I-80 and south are fully in the sun and mixed out with the warm, gusty SW winds. So I think we’re going to build some half decent CAPE as the afternoon wears on and also advect in somewhat more moist air. Low and mid-level lapses are very high as well, as noted on the SPC disco. This is the kind of setup that can yield a surprisingly strong line of storms with strong downbursts. Low Level Lapse Rate: Mid-Level Lapse Rate: -
I just realized Chris Martz is a meteorologist, which you must know. I had assumed he wasn’t. Now I’m more surprised he made those errors about 1879! A pro met doing that? Shouldn’t he have known better? He’s not an AGW denier, however, per the following link. Instead he seems to be in the category of non-alarmist AGW believer. His beef doesn’t seem to be with AGW, itself, but instead it seems to be with AGW alarmists. @donsutherland1is my assessment correct in your opinion? Quoted from link below: do you think he’s being sincere here? Is it possible he’s possibly making a fact based case? The magnitude of warming and the rate at which it occurs make all the difference in whether global warming is cause for alarm that requires economic decarbonization and/or large-scale interventions like SRM, or is largely unimportant in terms of environment and public health. Just how much warming will occur is dependent on “equilibrium climate sensitivity” (ECS), which is the amount of warming that results from doubling atmospheric CO2 levels plus any feedbacks that amplify or dampen the slight increase in temperature caused directly by CO2 and other greenhouse gases (GHGs). • If ECS is ≥3°C, then the climate system is highly sensitive to GHGs, and climate warming is therefore a concern. • If ECS is <3°C, then the climate system is largely insensitive to GHGs, and warming impacts are exaggerated. This seems to be the likely case given that we have not seen increases in most types of extreme events, climate models overestimate warming (U.S. DOE CWG, 2025)[30] and the state of human welfare has never been better than it is today by nearly every measurable metric. https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Martz-Written-Testimony.pdf
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Pittsburgh/Western PA WINTER ‘25/‘26
Rd9108 replied to Burghblizz's topic in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
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40 days!!
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Pittsburgh/Western PA WINTER ‘25/‘26
Mailman replied to Burghblizz's topic in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
Some big hailers today, huh? -
So, would he have seen your corrections regarding the current heatwave? If so, does that mean he no longer could be ignorant of the facts about it? Could he instead be outrightly lying and intentionally trying to deceive?
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Beautiful day!!!
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Central PA Spring 2026 Discussion/Obs Thread
Yardstickgozinya replied to Voyager's topic in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
A good chunk of Pa. has been Upgrade to enhanced, at first glance it doesn't appear that the tornado threat has increased, but both hail and wind threats ,have increased significantly . Both are at 30% probabilities ,level 1 hatching for all of cpa west of the Susquehanna river. Apparently, a level one 1 hatching indicates there could be hail over 2" in diameter and winds in excess of 74mph if Ai is feeding me information correctly. https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk.html -
Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change
donsutherland1 replied to donsutherland1's topic in Climate Change
No. He blocked me when I corrected him in the past for misrepresenting data and provided links to the actual data. I did post the correct MWR data on Twitter/X in a thread in which he's copied. -
Wow lighten up dude. Thought it was funny you said 30k days that’s 82 years which is pretty funny it would say you can only change it that often. I’m sure only a mod can assist you or you make have to make a new account.
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Thank you, Don. I corrected my mentions of SE winds to the correct SW winds. I agree with you on all of this. Have you by chance replied to Chris Martz? I can’t tell because I’m not a registered X user. In case you haven’t seen these followup tweets, here are two he did: and he then posted this saying his posting of “facts” “makes people angry”:
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Frist 3 weeks of the month dep EWR: +4.3 NYC: +3.6
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64 / 50 warming up nicely
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E PA/NJ/DE Spring 2026 Obs/Discussion
Voyager replied to PhiEaglesfan712's topic in Philadelphia Region
It's been sunny up in Tamaqua for about 2 hours now. Up to 63 degrees so far as well. -
FB entry said 6 went to hospitals, 4 already released. No details on the other 2. Estimated 144 people on that old barn floor.
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We’ve gone to sleety snow with some freezing mist. Small bouncing IP mixed with some flakes.
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I actually looked at that and figured here we go-spring! Then I realized it’s d15. Back to thinking about other things…
