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wow did that hit Savannah directly?

unfortunately we have been talking about ocean acidification and a mass extinction event (which we have already started), it's happened in the past, where up to 90% of life on the planet goes extinct as nature is trying to balance things out. ocean hypoxia is quite frightening, can you imagine all that life dying wow reaching temperature thresholds like 1.5 C and 2.0 C are the wrong things to talk about, the real danger is a runaway chemical process after reaching a tipping point or threshold and that runaway chemical process is what will cascade into something we can never come back from. the problem is not simply of temperatures, but of a runaway cascading chemical process from which there is no return

1893 exciting season a hurricane hit NYC directly!

right so April and May are very warm? that would follow the pattern of the last 2 springs, and dry too

something we haven't had in many years....since 2014-15....

especially in such a warm winter-- what caused such a late season outbreak, Chris? The other one which comes to mind for me happened in 1994-95 another very warm winter, when we had an arctic outbreak in April with sunny skies very windy and temps in the mid 30s during the day and low 20s at night!

wow some excellent articles on here about exoplanets with water, in case we need to get off of here and find another planet to live on https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/11/aa47539-23/aa47539-23.html Abstract Understanding the set of conditions that allow rocky planets to have liquid water on their surface, in the form of lakes, seas, or oceans, is a major scientific step in determining the fraction of planets potentially suitable for the emergence and development of life as we know it on Earth. This effort is also necessary to define and refine what is known as the habitable zone (HZ) in order to guide the search for exoplanets likely to harbor remotely detectable life forms. To date, most numerical climate studies on this topic have focused on the conditions necessary to maintain oceans, but not to form them in the first place. https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/02/aa42286-21/aa42286-21.html Abstract As the insolation of an Earth-like (exo)planet with a large amount of water increases, its surface and atmospheric temperatures also increase, eventually leading to a catastrophic runaway greenhouse transition. While some studies have shown that the onset of the runaway greenhouse may be delayed due to an overshoot of the outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) – compared to the Simpson-Nakajima threshold – by radiatively inactive gases, there is still no consensus on whether this is occurring and why. https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/08/aa35585-19/aa35585-19.html Abstract Planets similar to Earth but slightly more irradiated are expected to enter into a runaway greenhouse state, where all surface water rapidly evaporates, forming an optically thick H2O-dominated atmosphere. For Earth, this extreme climate transition is thought to occur for an increase of only ~6% in solar luminosity, though the exact limit at which the transition would occur is still a highly debated topic. In general, the runaway greenhouse is believed to be a fundamental process in the evolution of Earth-sized, temperate planets

what would be necessary for this to happen?

wow from a different era.... I'm shocked it's not 2005 with all those cat 5 storms and wilma, the strongest storm in recorded history in the atlantic.

I posted this in the la nina thread unfortunately we have been talking about ocean acidification and a mass extinction event (which we have already started), it's happened in the past, where up to 90% of life on the planet goes extinct as nature is trying to balance things out. ocean hypoxia is quite frightening, can you imagine all that life dying wow reaching temperature thresholds like 1.5 C and 2.0 C are the wrong things to talk about, the real danger is a runaway chemical process after reaching a tipping point or threshold and that runaway chemical process is what will cascade into something we can never come back from. the problem is not simply of temperatures, but of a runaway cascading chemical process from which there is no return

what's the highest we've ever had? 2020 or 2005?

I'm surprised 2020 isn't in this list

unfortunately we have been talking about ocean acidification and a mass extinction event (which we have already started), it's happened in the past, where up to 90% of life on the planet goes extinct as nature is trying to balance things out. ocean hypoxia is quite frightening, can you imagine all that life dying wow reaching temperature thresholds like 1.5 C and 2.0 C are the wrong things to talk about, the real danger is a runaway chemical process after reaching a tipping point or threshold and that runaway chemical process is what will cascade into something we can never come back from. the problem is not simply of temperatures, but of a runaway cascading chemical process from which there is no return

Yes I read that sea level is rising fastest along the east coast and the gulf coast, it's not a uniform rise everywhere

hopefully dry and warm like the last two springs. March can be wet but once April is here dry and warm is preferred.

wow, so we had cold leading into the snow event then?

That's what I thought, this has happened in the past during mass extinction events....

and Central Park was the only one who got 5" from what I remember, the rest of us were more like 2-3" Still that was big in a season with only 0.5" It sucks though, it would have been far and away the lowest snowfall total ever if it wasn't for that one storm at the end. So historic in that sense.

It makes a lot of sense and here's another caution flag and this is for those who think nature will balance everything out on its own.... think of what it will take to "recalibrate" and what kind of effects that recalibration will have on us as a species.

and this is the first time they've ever averaged a winter above freezing? wow-- I didn't realize you could have that near our latitude, I thought you'd have to go up into the Dacks at least to average that cold....

He's probably thinking something like March 1998, and that was about as marginal as it gets lol. Did we ever get below freezing during that storm?

Yep same here, the only snow now left are the small piles on the edge of the parking lot.

Thats impressive... 06-07 and 07-08 were pretty bad too, but then we got to normal snowfall in 08-09

What causes ocean acidification, Don? Does the excess CO2 get absorbed by the oceans and make them more acidic?

Really? I thought it was supposed to cool down into the 40s by March 1 after being in the 60s at the end of February.