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  1. LibertyBell
    Well at least SST have dropped, in the middle of January they were reported to be around 43-45. Since you've been doing this for awhile, you probably know this-- when are the lowest SST usually-- late February or early March? If this projected mid to late month cold happens, we could get widespread mid to upper 30s SST (depends on what kind of staying power it has.)
  2. LibertyBell
    the overpopulation of humans and their livestock has much more of an effect than any limited population of mammoths ever did. also-- it's worth noting-- humans drove the mammoths to extinction (along with many other creatures.)
  3. LibertyBell
    There's many examples of this however it's a very hit and miss scenario. To use a baseball example it's like replacing a great all around hitter .300 hitter with some power with someone who strikes out most of the time but once in a long while hits a home run. It's why we see so many feast and famine winters now, you rarely ever see a snowfall season in the normal range.
  4. LibertyBell
    Yes, I enjoy it all too. Sunny and dry in the spring and summer (rainfall at night is okay) to nice clear frosty nights in the fall to get the fall foliage going during the day and then snow in time for the holidays in December ideally. Having a warm start to winter spoils a large part of the season for me. Getting snow in December is important to have a good winter.
  5. LibertyBell
    I have read the winter up in Montpelier, VT this year has been what the normal winter in Philadelphia would be? My argument about caring about temperatures is this-- I remember you posted numbers on this last year or the year prior-- we have been setting new records for temperatures in the 60s followed by significant snowfall... I think the record is 2 days (2 days after temperatures in the 60s we had a 6"+ snowstorm?) This year the extreme warmth has been in the middle of the nation, I heard that central Canada has been in the 70s? Broke their previous record by 4 degrees! I hope this doesn't mean wildfires later in the spring and summer!
  6. LibertyBell
    early prediction for the total solar eclipse on April 8th lol?
  7. LibertyBell
    Yesterday wasn't half bad though, we had sun for about 2 hours. People really are thirsting for sunshine aren't they lol It's not my fault that the planet is 70% water 30% land, if I could geoengineer it, it would be about 40% water and 60% land. We don't need that much water (and it would fix the sea level rise problem too.)
  8. LibertyBell
    Looks like the PDO overrides both the el nino and whatever -nao there is, doesn't it? This is very similar to the late 80s early 90s pattern.
  9. LibertyBell
    Here's why I respect activists, at least they do something to try to change the status quo.
  10. LibertyBell
    dry pattern starts Saturday
  11. LibertyBell
    I dont understand why people care whether it's in the 40s and sunny or in the 60s and sunny, it's not going to snow either way so it might as well be warm right now. If and when we get snow later in the month it won't matter what the temperatures are here right now.
  12. LibertyBell
    Indeed, I've been talking about the Fermi Paradox for years in these terms. Highly technological civilizations are fragile in the sense that what brought them great success is the same thing as what can be their great downfall.
  13. LibertyBell
    Yes and none of this should be necessary, because we knew this was happening even back in the 80s (and some probably knew of this even before then), action should have been taken to curb emissions much sooner.
  14. LibertyBell
    I love pianos but never owned a grand piano, it sounds like a lot to maintain lol. I love their sound though. I have an electronic piano and I download different kinds of piano sampling sounds onto it and I always pick a sampling of grand pianos because their sounds have the deepest most genuine timbre.
  15. LibertyBell
    SO2 balloons have already been launched, still in the testing phase, but expect this to be deployed every year starting around 2024. It's not a good thing but it is what it is. Sucks for us stargazers too, because it will make the skies more hazy and add to the light pollution issues (which also impact health and the environment) which we already have.
  16. LibertyBell
    Same thing in the summer, Ray. A lot of it has to do with more moisture in the air and more rainfall, which keeps overnight lows higher. The worst possible combo for me, in the summer I want dry and hot during the day and lower temps at night.
  17. LibertyBell
    all of this can be neutralized by computer controlled turbines that use motion detection to stop a specific fan from turning when a bird or bat approaches.
  18. LibertyBell
    The real issue with lithium batteries is them being highly flammable and what happens in flooding (but you shouldn't be driving in these conditions anyway.) That's why solid state batteries are much better as well as green hydrogen when it becomes available. Skyscrapers and planes are much worse for birds and we can also help them by reducing the godawful light pollution (which is a health issue for us too.)
  19. LibertyBell
    Thanks, when December produces no measurable snowfall, it's a strong indicator of a really low snowfall winter.
  20. LibertyBell
    But these wind farms are now computerized and they will shut down when a bird approaches. The planes that hit birds are far worse as are the light pollution of buildings that kill birds, you'll see thousands of dead birds at the bottom of these buildings, not to mention how bad light pollution is for our health.
  21. LibertyBell
    What determines where the cold air goes, Ray? And do we have any predictive power in that department?
  22. LibertyBell
    lmao oh, and here I was thinking it was a two day snowstorm with temps in the single digits haha
  23. LibertyBell
    wow what an interestingly cold 2 day snowstorm!
  24. LibertyBell
    The latest single degree low I can remember happened on 2/28/15, we missed a single digit low in March by only one day. Is this the latest single degree low we've had in at least 30 years, Don? When was the last time we had a single degree low in March? That was such an unusually cold back half of winter too. I bet 1966-67 holds the record for our latest single degree low (and latest 0 temp for Long Island, which happened in March.)
  25. LibertyBell
    it's an interesting that even just 0.8" of snow can help drop temps Larry I think number 4 should be 3.2"?
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