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Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change
WolfStock1 replied to donsutherland1's topic in Climate Change
That's fine, except the rest of the world is generally in a different situation than the US. And the switch to renewables has been painful in many places. Germany has been the poster child, but their electricity prices have been skyrocketing, and their economy is struggling as a result. But even with that - most of their energy use is still fossil - well over 70%: So again - what is the scale of those charts you posted? It's not there, for a reason. All they show is "up", but they don't show how *much* up, relative to actual fossil usage. China has indeed been going full-bore to renewables, but they're still mostly fossil: They're at about 10% wind and solar. Again - low-hanging fruit; not baseline power. And they generally have zero respect for the environment; doing big projects that just aren't feasible in the US. With regards to EV sales - apples to oranges situation-wise. They're still heavily subsidized in most places. If they're a slam-dunk - then why are they so heavily subsidized? China's EV sales have been doing great - and that's great - but Chinese workers are paid about 1/3 the salary of the US; they can afford to do everything cheaper. Low hanging fruit, as they try to catch up with the developed work economy-wise. If they had our level of prosperity they would not be able to do this. China is also building tons of new coal power plants BTW, along with their renewables growth. -
2025-2026 Fall/Winter Mountain Thread
Maggie Valley Steve replied to Buckethead's topic in Southeastern States
Looks like I added an inch after the wind layed down overnight. About 3 inches so far. Light flurries and 19. -
Central PA Spring 2026 Discussion/Obs Thread
pawatch replied to Voyager's topic in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
High for yesterday was 65 degrees. This morning 25 degrees and snow. -
I'm fully immersed in fantasy baseball, so it's going to have to take a strong consensus for a major event to pull me back in, and a day 7 OP EURO won't do it.
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Almost had my day ruined with downed trees in the njt catenary wires.
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Thankfully my power’s OK. Hope I don’t drive by lots of downed trees on the way to Hewlett this afternoon.
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Central PA Spring 2026 Discussion/Obs Thread
mahantango#1 replied to Voyager's topic in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
Have about an inch of snow here that is very crusty. -
Yeah we likely done
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Yea, probably the latitude at which that foot will verify.
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Was decently windy last night. Kept me up for a bit. Bunch of dead limbs and the occasional dead tree down around the neighborhood.
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Wind woke me up. Should have issued a high wind warning region wide. Close to 2 inches of rain here for the storm. Drought denter
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Central PA Spring 2026 Discussion/Obs Thread
2001kx replied to Voyager's topic in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
About 3" of snow -
Yeah, that was something last night when that woke me up and literally blasted through here. My bedroom drapes were moving back and forth like I had the window cracked open, which I didn't. Didn't lose power and no damage here from what I see so far but I know other parts of Orange County weren't as lucky with trees coming down on buildings and cars.
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CAA doing some heavy lifting up here. G54 with temperatures dropping into the teens. Already reached our high for the day.
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Central PA Spring 2026 Discussion/Obs Thread
canderson replied to Voyager's topic in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
Didn’t notify any snow accumulation in the city, unfortunately -
Central PA Spring 2026 Discussion/Obs Thread
mahantango#1 replied to Voyager's topic in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania
The old saying of: after a thunderstorm in winter within 10 days it will snow, rang true again. -
2025-2026 Fall/Winter Mountain Thread
Buckethead replied to Buckethead's topic in Southeastern States
I just measured around the yard and found an average of 7". I found a 16" drift on the side of my house. The snow intensity picked up, so I cleared my board and laid it on top of the snow. We'll see if any more adds up today. Sent from my Pixel 10 Pro using Tapatalk -
looks like the zzzzs and smarch classic is back for a while
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Prepare to. Yesterday 12z was a foot for you .Something is up.
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Very underrated poster. He had some great long range calls. I will miss him.
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Dang sucks to see one of our own pass. Rip man.
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You don't say?
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Oh, man.....so sorry to hear. Dude was definitely enthusiastic about weather...he'd go with a 40"-burger somewhere in just about every big nor' easter. RIP.
