LibertyBell
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paradoxically, all those nukes going off at once would actually be a good thing if looked at through the lens of climate change, as it would result in a sudden and immediate drop in temperatures.
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science fiction writers are smarter than most people and have been incorporating this into their stories (as well as environmental collapse) going all the way back to the 1920s.
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the reason coastal areas have warmed more is because the oceans are heatsinks. We're very lucky the oceans are there to do that, otherwise the entire planet would have become like Venus already. It might yet one day anyway when the oceans become so warm they are completely saturated with heat.
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It's interesting how much the ocean has sucked up the heat which has stopped the increase of 90 and 100 degree heat which peaked in the 1990s (with another peak from 2010-13). The earth is trying to balance out humankind's excess by dumping the heat into the ocean, let's see how long that lasts.
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The rain might be great for some veggies but my newly bloomed red roses look all mangled right now.
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I was turning 10 years old and we had just moved into a new house and I was enjoying the central air and our big back yard with large pine trees and acorns lol where I played ball. Great memories!!
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why are we getting so many cut offs, this belongs in March lol
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Just wait til we get to Friday and Saturday when we might be in the 40s at night.
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September 1983 was a classic hot extended summer wasn't it, Chris? 6 days of 90+ including a 95 degree day in there on the 11th? This was after it hit 100 at JFK in August. Why does it look like it was below normal for the month of September on Long Island though?
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Next meaningful rain will be tonight. It's not a bad pattern at all, just wish it was sunny during the day, it can rain all it wants at night.
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These are the classic summers I grew up with that I knew and loved. I have dim memories of 1977 (mostly because of the blackout.... I think there's a pun there somewhere, unintentional I assure you lol) but stronger memories of 1980, 1983, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2002. The summers in the 90s were when I was in college and enjoyed wonderfully sunny summers at the beach, I think those summers all the way up to 2002 were the best summers we've ever had, only usurped by 2010-2013 which also had wonderful weather. Since 2013 we just haven't had summers like that anymore. We haven't even had a stretch of 7 or more days of 90 degree heat in a row since 2002 (we had two that year and also two in 1999.)
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steady heavyish rain now, today has been a pretty rainy day and so will the next 2 days. This storm is not underperforming
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100 degrees is what makes a summer memorable, if it has low dew points even better. I would love 101 degrees with a dew point of 60, we got a lot of that in 2010. There's also a nice correlation between hot summers and snowy winters. We had that in 1955, 1966, 1977, 1993, 1995, 2002, 2010, and 2013.
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when you look at summers like 1983 and 2011 though, wasn't it went both before and after summer? 1982-83 was a very strong el nino so naturally it had a very wet winter and I remember spring was very wet too. It was only the summer months that had lower rainfall. It makes me think that it gives the soil time to dry out before peak heating season. 2010-11 was of course a very snowy winter and also very wet. I don't remember what spring was like that year except for all the severe weather outbreaks across the south and midwest.
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it makes sense with a low track to the west, areas east of the low track usually see the least rainfall and it's almost always showery. 1.75 from such a storm track is actually pretty good.
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Either extreme is horrible, if I had my way we would have controlled rainfalls twice a week (mostly at night) of around half an inch each lol.
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The heavy rainfall will be Monday into Tuesday, it was nice to pull in a mostly nice weekend. I'm more upset about the Wednesday-Friday weather though. Two days of rain is enough but it's supposed to linger for most of the week?
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Yeah but we don't live in a desert, the normal rainfall we get is just fine. I haven't watered at all this year. Getting a quarter to a half an inch with each of these rainfalls is plenty. I think some people forgot what thats like-- getting 2-4 inch flooding rainfalls definitely isn't normal. Quarter to half inch rainfalls a couple of times a week is just fine.
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No only the people on this forum lol. Actually among the general population I guarantee that way more people want 100 degree temperatures than want a 20 inch snowstorm lol. I happen to love both. We have air conditioning for 100 degree temperatures and central heat for cold and snow. It gives us the luxury of enjoying all sorts of extreme conditions. Average or below normal or rainy summers are so boring, there is nothing interesting about them at all. There's no connection between rainfall and 100 degree temperatures by the way, I've found numerous wet springs and summers that still had 100 degree temperatures. When the heat really comes in, it can dry the soil VERY quickly. There is no more powerful object in our solar system than the power and heat of the sun!
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Most normal people love their hot summers. 99.99% people I know love their summers hot. I'm rather doubtful of soil moisture controlling heat at all, two of our hottest summers, 1983 and 2011 had a ton of rain. But thankfully I do not believe we will see that kind of rainfall because we do not want the kind of horrible destruction that flooding has caused in the middle of the country. Flooding is MUCH worse than any drought ever could be.
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We had rain earlier. I for one do not want my weekend ruined. Rain Monday into Tuesday is fine and timed much better for people who want to do stuff on their weekends.
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People who like that much rain are very strange people and make up less than 00000000000.1% of the population I'm sure. Unless you have a farm in Nebraska or Iowa you shouldn't want so much rain, and even then, floods are FAR more damaging than droughts could EVER be. I'm also not convinced that natural rain is better than our own watering, nature is not always better, especially with all the pollution in our air. I was reading that we have no federal limits on arsenic (wtf) and there's arsenic in rain water. Every little bit adds up. I'd much rather have my own filtered source of water, something that I can control the chemical composition of, rather than relying on nature for anything. And I find all talk of drought to be ridiculous when 70% of our planet is covered in water. If humanity wasn't so lazy we could create our own *rain* whenever we wanted by simply taking water from the ocean and properly filtering it to the chemical composition we want. Plus, like normal people,. I love my clear blue skies :-)
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and clear blue skies
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if we had a dry pattern though why did we still have an onshore flow? usually you need a downsloping flow for it to be that dry like 1966 was.
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The reason why some of the more extreme climate forecasts from the 70s and 80s did not verify is because we have natural heat sinks in place (like the oceans) that store that extra heat energy. I liken it to a busted severe weather forecast that failed because the cap did not break. However, those natural systems can only hold for so long and at some point the cap will break and then we'll see an accelerated greenhouse effect. Let's just hope it does not do that for a few decades yet.
