LibertyBell
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Is this why we rarely get hit by thread the needles..... the midatlantic storms go south of here and the northeast storms go north of here. We're not in the midatlantic and we're not in the northeast.
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Yes those too, glad we didn't delve deeper into that or else I would have mentioned my fear of centipedes (which we do sometimes get around here) and wolf spiders as well as jumping spiders. I saw one the size of my knee cap and it jumped up on my knee....I think the whole block heard my scream that summer lol
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Yes I took pictures of it, the rosy clouds were quite beautiful and multilayered.
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I just hope we're not talking about a repeat of March 2014. March 2015 would be far preferable.
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Yes, carbon neutral doesn't mean abandoning fossil fuels altogether, it means not adding more and balancing it out with carbon negative projects too. We also need to move to biodegradable plastics and quickly. This isn't just about the oceans, they're in our bodies too and causing organ damage. I also saw a really sad documentary on PBS where plastic trash has made its way to the beaches in Africa and Elephants are having to pick through plastic trash to find their food.
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Chris how does this compare to the high solar early 90s (1990 and 1991) pattern of 22 out of 24 months above normal? Those were the two warmest years on record globally at that point in time.
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we also have a major SSW to track!
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Chris, I think we should differentiate between mild and cloudy and warm and sunny, and this looks like much more of the warm and sunny variety, which we like I wish long term forecasts made that differentiation too, because there's a big difference between the two.
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The big difference is MUCH MORE sunshine this time (starting with this morning).
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hmmm this could turn around some of those mild March forecasts. we're looking forward to a pattern change starting around the 15th and sounds like it could persist into at least the first half of March, Larry?
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That late February SWFE in 2008 was a bust in the positive direction, that was supposed to be a snow to rain event and it didn't change over until the very end when we had some drizzle to top off the 6-8 inches of snow we got. I remember getting up at 3 am to see that and it was snowing so hard, I said to myself "This isn't changing over anytime soon." And it didn't, it snowed hard well into the morning and ended before noon as some drizzle. The one significant snowfall that winter.
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I actually saved a screenshot from the radar from that storm because I saw the oddest thing (I don't know how many people remember this), but it was raining all around us and there was a small white bubble of snowfall over this area-- it didn't amount to much at all-- I think an inch or two at best-- but people driving in from other areas were wondering how the roads were a little white here while it was just raining everywhere else. The white bubble went away after a few hours-- I remember a met saying it had something to do with heavier rates that changed it to snow here for a couple hours before it went right back to rain, so it was like a spring storm. But it was still amusing to have it snowing here while it was raining at Morristown, NJ and all points north and west lol. It was insignificant but it's something I still remember.
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I hope so too, hey we got a 6" snowstorm in late February in 2008, so it's definitely possible even in a mostly mild winter-- that was another brutal winter and that was the only snowfall of note that winter (that was also the winter when we had that horrible "Heavy Snow Warning" non event in January.) There's also 1994-95, another very mild winter in an el nino that gave us a significant snowstorm in February. I won't bring up 1982-83 or 2015-16 since those two analogs have been done to death lol. I also think next winter could be much better because la ninas that come after el ninos usually are.
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We discussed the origin and fate of the universe, mass extinctions, organic farming and climate change lol. "Only in New York (subforum)" would you get such a diversity of discussion lol -- especially when the sun hasn't been out in about a week and there hasn't been any significant snow in over 2 years.
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I'd love to know if anyone asked this before the Blizzard of 1996.... unfortunately these forums did not exist back then
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Don, what happened to the 1895-1896 winter in this list? Didn't we have less than 3" through the end of January and ended up with 46" that season-- mostly on the strength of the snowiest March on record with over 30" of snow in that month alone?
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Well, hopefully technological advances will fix that issue. I'm not a fan of lithium batteries either, we have issues with intense fires here in New York with unregulated lithium batteries used in e-bikes. We're in the process of developing solid state batteries and green hydrogen which will hopefully replace lithium. Car manufacturers actually have a roadmap to start using solid state batteries in their vehicles by 2026. By the way lithium isn't just a problem for evs, it's also a major issue for laptop computers, cellphones and other electronic devices.
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Science sorts things out as usual, independent of whatever people "think"
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Extended summer stormlover74 future snow hole banter thread 23
LibertyBell replied to BxEngine's topic in New York City Metro
Maybe because they listen to dopes like JB? By the way we have some supposed red taggers on here who hold these same views and whine like babies for moderators. It's quite amusing. -
Extended summer stormlover74 future snow hole banter thread 23
LibertyBell replied to BxEngine's topic in New York City Metro
Indeed, I blame world governments for a lot of it and the UN for allowing fossil fuel lobbyists to participate in the discussions. They need to be made to realize they are part of the past and will have NO role in the future of the planet. And while we're at it, we need to ban corporate lobbying and dark money altogether. -
While what you're saying does happen and has continued to happen it's not a problem of science but of human greed. We see this in how the sugar industry sought to suppress research showing that increased sugar consumption leads to diabetes-- and they continue to do so with HFCS. There's the pesticide issue I've already mentioned with Sygenta and Bayer and Dow with them strongarming the EPA; our regulatory agencies are captured. And DuPont with PFOA/PFAS doing the same thing. And then there's the infamous case of Merck and Vioxx, of them attempting to cover up the thousands of deaths caused by this dreadful drug and blacklisting doctors who wouldn't prescribe it. So, yes money does corrupt humans, but it doesn't corrupt science, which exists independently of any and all humans. But by the same token, you're making the case in the wrong direction, the fact is, it's the fossil fuel companies who have been covering up climate change research for decades. The scientists you're talking about who were taking money to cover up the truth were scientists who worked for the fossil fuel companies. Most of the time it's the corporation paid scientists whose results must be questioned, not the independent ones who do not get paid for their analyses.
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Yes, in my experience, it's always the best policy to work with nature rather than to attempt to work "against" it. After all, we're a part of nature and whatever we do it to it, we also do to ourselves.
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I think it will be a combination of AI and quantum computing. There is a poetic symmetry with having quantum computers handle these problems, because the universe is in a very real sense a cosmic quantum computer. Therefore what better to understand such a system than a microcosmic version of the same thing?
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Big Bang and Relativity will likely require modification when Quantum Gravity is worked out (Big Bang will likely be modified into Big Bounce for example and Quantum Gravity will also do away with singularities, which is a sign that a theory has reached its limit figuratively and literally lol), but modification maintains most of the original theory and adds necessary extensions to it.
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Thanks Larry, I have a few questions regarding this combined influence. Is it possible that the combined additive effect of the SSW and the pattern change will create a pattern change that will last longer than it otherwise would if only one of the two occurred? Is it possible they will have a concurrent additive effect in that create a more extreme pattern change than would otherwise have occurred if only one of the two occurred? Obviously up here we don't want a March 2014 kind of scenario when the PV is in the northeast and suppresses the storms to our south.
