LibertyBell
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overpopulation is also heavily involved in the current mass extinction event (see above) Maybe the plans to green the city by 30% will help improve UHI...it has major health implications.
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Climate isn't pseudoscience but subjectively calling a 30 year period "normal"-- I don't find that to be scientific.....we should at least make that 60 years, which is how far back most of our major airport records go. I think 60 years would be better to use all the modern data we have available. I just don't like the use of "averages" at all.....to make it even more scientific we should use standard deviations and anything within 1 SD should be considered normal, rather than pick a specific single number. I don't know why something so complex as climate and weather is reduced down to a single number rather than using a range of values, which I find to be of more scientific value. There are other sciences that are far more exact than meteorology is....take astronomy for example. One of the reasons I love it is because its predictions are so exact going out thousands of years. You can count on that eclipse or occultation happening when it's supposed to. You don't see that kind of beautiful exact precision anywhere in meteorology or climate. I agree with you about mass extinction; we are in the middle of one right now. But its cause is more than just climate change, it's pesticides and horrible chemicals that companies are allowed to use which scientists have been warning against for decades that are destroying pollinators. These same companies were involved in making chemical weapons (Bayer, Dow, etc.), so we know their behavior is not altruistic, they want to maximize their profits and to hell with the environment and our health. There are also other issues like logging and exploitation and yes-- reaching the carrying capacity of the planet. All of these factor into the mass extinction that humanity has started. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event Research completed after the seminal 1982 paper (Sepkoski and Raup) has concluded that a sixth mass extinction event is ongoing due to human activities: 6. Holocene extinction currently ongoing. Extinctions have occurred at over 1000 times the background extinction rate since 1900, and the rate is increasing.[26][27][a] The mass extinction is a result of human activity,[29][30][31][32] driven by population growth and overconsumption of the earth's natural resources.[b] The 2019 global biodiversity assessment by IPBES asserts that out of an estimated 8 million species, 1 million plant and animal species are currently threatened with extinction.[34][35][36][37] In late 2021, WWF Germany suggested that over a million species could go extinct within a decade in the "largest mass extinction event since the end of the dinosaur age."[38] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
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and 1999 was just barely in that range..... 19" is still below normal for us....how many were in the 20-29" range, Chris? None I'm guessing.
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DC wont get anything either
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It's why people who say meteorology is a pseudoscience are wrong but what IS a pseudoscience is thinking that computing averages has any value whatsoever. The climate has changed throughout the history of the planet, so we shouldn't be computing averages based on very subjective 30 year snapshots. I wish we would stop talking about averages altogether as that makes it seem like the climate "should be" static.
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Yes I hate enso too, it would be nice not to have anything for a few years
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That might have been a triple phaser
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some of our worst winters had snowstorms down there like 1972-73 and 2001-02
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Some of them have been amazing for snow. Also let's not forget that el ninos have been among our worst winters ever too. ENSO only controls about 20% of the winter outcome here
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I forgot how cold it was in 1993....
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What about for JFK and LGA Chris?
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inexact science is probably a better term
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So he is our local groundhog?
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Hey April 2018 was AMAZING I loved that 6 inch snowstorm
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if anything the IPCC predictions have been way too conservative
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it makes a strong case for government takeover of all corporations and a requirement for them to publish ALL data
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Just read about past storms and past big events, in a way it's like reliving them.
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I noticed that Quebec has many of their records on this date from 1996 too. That was some arctic shot! Straight down the Hudson?
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1996 was amazingly cold on this date....what a wonderful winter it was, had the big blizzard then a big thaw and then winter came right back in February and lasted through early April. Was NYC in the single digits back then too? I see JFK and EWR were.
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Mt Washington is interesting and I didn't know the stratosphere could get that low. I find the Himalayas far more interesting though, with the possibility of yeti running around up there lmao ;-) and huge mountains that are the stuff of legends.
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sunny Monday and Wednesday
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Wild how cold Dec 1989 was at MPO-- I can extrapolate that Jan 1994 must have been -30 or colder based on that. What is their lowest ever temp and when was it? Thanks!
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But maybe cold enough for some snow in the last week of February and beyond? Just not arctic level cold? I doubt we get anything before that too.
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Indeed. Any hope for wintry weather probably won't happen until the last week of the month and beyond.
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Thanks, was Jan 1994 the coldest for MPO and Scranton too? I think it was near -25 at both locations-- colder than either Jan 1985 or Jan 1977?
