LibertyBell

What's causing all this early season cold weather Don and what are its implications on the winter?

That came really early in the morning. The sun was out during the late morning to mid day hours. When was the last time JFK had an inch or more of rainfall?

Extremely windy tonight!

It will be over $100 billion

Question is when will people learn the lessons these storms are trying to teach us?

It really is splitting hairs though. I find it ridiculous that 157 mph is considered minimum for Cat 5 when the information is output in 5 mph increments. 111 mph for Cat 3 is even worse. We should just use multiple of 10s for categories.

-BRIGHT- sunshine here now! Yay the baseball games WILL be played!

Looks like the sun is trying to break out yay! Don, when was JFK's last 1" rainfall?

and 100 heat index!

the classic pattern for a cold and snowy winter is average September- cold October- mild November- cold December and then cold through Marchand sometimes even April.

This is why artificial aerosol injections are seen as a way to stop climate change.

Do you realize all those winters were extremely boring outside of 1977-78 don't you?

What exactly is causing this rare consistent cold pattern this time of year? Some random typhoon recurvature?

And if you catch HR number 62 you could be a millionaire!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6678524/ And here is a presentation for why processed red meat increases cancer risks by 30% or more (specifically colorectal, stomach and pancreatic cancer.)

You see this in spring too, snow at nearly 50 degrees surface temp

Yes that's entirely on them. And when these storms come and they need to evacuate-- they're on their own. If they stay behind they're responsible for whatever happens too.

That's a good point, so a scale that incorporates both the size of the storm and the wind (so a total energy output scale) should be used. The only question would be, should there be a separate surge scale, or should we incorporate both surge and wind features into one universal scale?

The rich can live there and afford to build their own homes with hurricane resistant coding.

Why don't we adopt a more West Pac type scale? They get the worst TC on the planet and I like their scale better. Instead of Cat 5, they should be called "Super Hurricanes" when they hit 150 mph. And the scale should be ordered by 5 mph (or 10 mph) which is how the numbers are reported instead of some random number like 74, 111 or 157. Minimum hurricane should be 75 mph (or 70 mph) and the highest category should be double that or 150 mph "super hurricane". Switch TS to 40 mph. It makes a lot of sense and is far easier to remember. Tropical Storm ..... 40 mph Minimum Hurricane ..... 75 mph (or 70 mph) Moderate Hurricane ..... 100 mph Major Hurricane ...... 110 mph Catastrophic Hurricane ..... 130 mph Super Hurricane ..... 150 mph

That may be a distinction without a difference. I always find it funny when people try to compare them to say which one is "worse"

So this family stayed behind to protect their 100 plus year old tortoises who also weighed over 100 pounds each they had a male and a female who were a lifetime couple they tried to protect them but they got swept out to sea :-'(

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412019301254 Prenatal exposure to air pollution as a potential risk factor for autism and ADHD Author links open overlay panelAnnaOudinabKasperFrondeliusaNilsHaglundcKarinKälléndBertilForsbergbPeikGustafssoncEbbaMalmqvista https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2019.105149Get rights and content Under a Creative Commons license Open access Highlights • We performed population-based research, with data on clinical diagnoses of autism and ADHD. • We had access to data on other neuro-developmental disorder, perinatal factors, and SES. • We modelled NOx with an extensive emission database and dispersion modelling. • We did not find an association of ADHD and NOx at relatively low-exposure levels. • We found a link between prenatal exposure NOx-exposure and autism. https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/conditions/autism/index.cfm Air pollution – Researchers found early-life exposure to air pollution may be a risk factor for autism. Children of mothers living near a freeway, and traffic-related pollution, during the third trimester of pregnancy were twice as likely to develop ASD. A distance of 1,014 feet, or a little less than 3.5 football fields, was considered near a freeway.2 Children with a mutation in a gene called MET, combined with high levels of exposure to air pollution, may have increased risk.3

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/highly-processed-food-linked-faster-cognitive-decline-rcna40999 Eating lots of highly processed food is linked to faster cognitive decline, research finds In a study, adults who ate more processed food saw a 25% faster decline in their ability to plan and execute a task than people whose diets did not contain much processed food. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/evidence-links-highly-processed-food-cancer-death-rcna45713 Even more evidence links highly processed food to a greater risk of cancer and death A pair of studies suggest that a diet high in ultra-processed food raises one's risk of colorectal cancer and mortality overall. They're not the first to find that correlation.

It gets worse, John, read some of the info I posted in the "worst predictions" thread about some of the other horrible things going on.