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  1. LibertyBell
    it almost seems like some sort of karmic punishment for the period from 2009-10 to 2014-15 (with the exception of 2011-12 which was awful outside of the October snowstorm.)
  2. LibertyBell
    Wow some of those high SST records are absolutely insane. I wonder how it affected oxygen levels in the water and if the fish went much lower to escape from the heat? Thanks, you provide a valuable service, it's not easy to get SST temperatures for specific areas online.
  3. LibertyBell
    that's the actual difference between simulation and science.
  4. LibertyBell

    My next sig is going to be about you ;-)

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      Snowfreak09

      :poster_stupid:

    2. LibertyBell

      LibertyBell

      the stupid person is the pesticide sniffer who has nothing to post and no real life and now I've got my friends on your case too.

  5. LibertyBell
    the 1990s had some of our warmest years on record though so I wouldn't say the warming slowed.... as a rolling average remember the 90s had to be very warm to reach that next peak in 1999. The cooler period was from the 60s to the 80s. As you'll note, we had much lower tropical activity and lower rainfall during this time period too, so this could be linked to the AMO.
  6. LibertyBell
    late 90s can be directly connected to extreme enso events like 1997-98 and 1998-99 we had both extreme el nino and extreme la nina. early 90s can be linked to extremely high solar activity (solar peak was 1990-1991 when NYC had 22 of 24 months of above normal temperatures) By the way we are currently at solar maximum again (though not all solar maxima are created equal.) That is why people are so excited about the upcoming total solar eclipse in April, there were likely be extreme solar activity (pink prominences, protuberances, etc.) visible off the solar limb during totality.
  7. LibertyBell
    It has to be both since a place like Washington DC still has sporadic winters with more snowfall than us (though obviously not as many such winters as they had in the 80s). DCA is such a miserable place to measure snowfall too- there seems to be some inaccuracy there.
  8. LibertyBell
    That's excellent and something I've always wondered about. And since you keep logs you probably know this-- what was your coldest SST you've ever recorded and what month/year and did you ever record SST below freezing? As you know seawater and especially moving seawater doesn't freeze even at 30-31. I remember in the 2014-15 winter, in February SST of 30-31 were recorded off the eastern end of Long Island and freezing drizzle occurred on an onshore wind. On the other end of the spectrum, what's the highest SST you've ever recorded and month/year-- I assume those would be in early August? I've infrequently seen SST in the low 80s sometimes. The highest SST I've ever seen reported was 84 degrees (!) back in July of 1993, that was one of the hottest and longest lasting summers we've ever had. For me it was only eclipsed by Summer 2010. Thanks!
  9. LibertyBell
    One would think if it happened before it would have happened in the 1930s, when we had some of our warmest winters. What year is that which spikes above 40 in the 1930s? Looks like we saw a second spike in the late 1950s
  10. LibertyBell
    it was obvious when you mentioned upwelling
  11. LibertyBell
    The further away you get from either ocean and with elevation, you'll get much more resistance to warming. There were maps of this posted, the Northern Rockies have had the least deviation towards positive departures in temperature of any location in the CONUS.
  12. 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.)
  13. 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.)
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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!
  17. LibertyBell
    early prediction for the total solar eclipse on April 8th lol?
  18. 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.)
  19. 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.
  20. LibertyBell
    Here's why I respect activists, at least they do something to try to change the status quo.
  21. LibertyBell
    dry pattern starts Saturday
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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