LibertyBell

Hey I deal with my personal experiences not with alarmist takes, in my 40 plus years I've experienced numerous winter storms and ice storms in particular and lost power in NONE. Some people have a hidden agenda to be alarmist well I will have NONE of that. If you can't acknowledge that the governor of Texas has done an awful job at regulating their own grid, then you have your head buried in the sand. It's not the fault of the communities obviously, it's the fault of the politicians who make decisions for them. Like the aforementioned "governor" who has been called out numerous times. Even now he's letting certain gas companies get away with opting out of the new winterization law. on a side note, I finally got the multiquote thing working (yay) and multiquoting to a different thread is an extra plus!

Sandy here and that tornado event we had last November were my two biggest ones....25 hours and 3 hours. There's been others like that here but nothing of note since they were all an hour or less. Only had 1.5" of snow in Octosnow so not really enough to do anything, plus I don't remember the winds being high in that event. Sometimes we lose power just from wind alone, but these are all minor power outages of less than an hour.

This is incredible stuff https://www.21stcentech.com/charlemagne-event-774-775-ad-caused-solar-storm/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05883-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/774–775_carbon-14_spike Several possible causes of the event have been considered. Annus Domini (the year of the Lord) 774. This year the Northumbrians banished their king, Alred, from York at Easter-tide; and chose Ethelred, the son of Mull, for their lord, who reigned four winters. This year also appeared in the heavens a red crucifix, after sunset; the Mercians and the men of Kent fought at Otford; and wonderful serpents were seen in the land of the South-Saxons. — Anglo-Saxon Chronicle[9] The "red crucifix" recorded by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle has been variously hypothesised to have been a supernova[9] or the aurora borealis.[2][10] In China, there is only one clear reference to an aurora in the mid-770s, namely the one on 12 January 776.[11][12] Instead, an anomalous "thunderstorm" was recorded for 775.[13] The common paradigm is that the event was caused by a solar particle event (SPE), or a consequence of events as often happen, from a very strong solar flare, perhaps the strongest ever known but still within the Sun's abilities.[2][7][14][15][16] According to a summary of the state of knowledge on radiocarbon dating in 2020, the spike is thought to have been caused by an extreme SPE.[3] Another discussed scenario of the event origin, involving a gamma-ray burst,[8][17] appears unlikely, because the event was also observed in isotopes 10 Be and 36 Cl.[16]

Even if it does change so what? Everything in nature is dynamic, nothing is static. Maybe he's talking about the sunspot cycle and changes in how the sun looks (or maybe even solar storms?) There is documentation from history that the sun's appearance has changed during historic solar storms. https://www.livescience.com/ancient-solar-storm-solar-minimum An extremely powerful solar storm pummeled our planet 9,200 years ago, leaving permanent scars on the ice buried deep below Greenland and Antarctica. A new study of those ancient ice samples has found that this previously unknown storm is one of the strongest outbursts of solar weather ever detected and would have crippled modern communications systems if it had hit Earth today. But perhaps most surprising, the massive storm appears to have hit during a solar minimum, the point during the sun's 11-year cycle when solar outbursts are typically much less common, according to the study, published Jan. 11 in the journal Nature Communications. Because of this unexpected discovery, the study researchers are concerned that devastating solar storms could hit when we least expect them — and that Earth might not be prepared when the next big one arrives. Sponsored Links Further analysis of the cores showed that the storm was particularly powerful — perhaps on a par with the most powerful solar storm ever detected, which occurred during a solar maximum between the years 775 B.C. and 774 B.C. RELATED CONTENT 'Internet apocalypse' could ride to Earth with the next solar storm 15 unforgettable images of stars 9 ideas about black holes that will blow your mind The newly discovered storm's occurrence during a solar minimum, when magnetic activity on the sun should be low, left the study authors puzzled and alarmed. "This [storm] further pushes the magnitude of a potential worst-case scenario for [solar storm] events," the researchers wrote in the study. According to the study authors, it is now essential for researchers to detect more ancient, extreme storms in the ice-core and tree-ring records, to determine if there is some sort of pattern beyond the sun's 11-year cycle that dictates when the most extreme storms will occur.

they need to five post his reactions too, I wonder why there isn't a function for that?

now thats MY perfect storm, I loved it and we both did extremely well in it, not only that my other house did extremely well in it too...30 inches plus at Allentown and JFK and everywhere in between (in a straight line)

sure and in all my 40 plus years I have never ever lost power in ANY winter storm of any type and I've seen them all. It happens in hurricanes and thunderstorm events like you said.

you must've been in a local screw zone in Long Beach, most of us in SW Nassau got well over a foot to around 15 inches

wow haven't had this kind of event in awhile

Because it is only a transitory phase. Sleet is better than freezing rain, of course.

Walt may be right about the pattern change coming after Presidents Day If so we may be in store for another big snow storm between now and then. February is when they are most likely to happen.

Nice to see a cold outcome

Huh all I'm hearing is that it will change to freezing rain by 6 am Friday and then temps will keep falling all day and it will change to snow in the afternoon.

It seems like Jan 96/ PD2 type storms are getting more rare. Was Jan 2016 really good by you? That might be the last widespread great storm I remember (although our northern neighbors got screwed there).

Yeah I guess they didn't learn from 1994.

18z..... I only look at 0z and 12z runs

Good, out with the old and in with the new. I love this facet of climate change.

so this is like a scaled down version of 2014-15? Interesting, I loved that winter.

wasnt that big for us on the south shore....I think 10-12 inches at JFK? this storm was better for us

the NFL can't lose enough lawsuits to make me happy.

Meanwhile there is now a class action lawsuit of racism against the NFL because of what happened to Brian Flores. It's about time, I hope he bankrupts the league.

right where we want it lol

I'm trolling them all over Twitter now: it's going to be dead wrong because your own forecast for the next 14 days is well below normal temps in the east....you should quit going with a la nina forecast

a classic coastal? it's showing up on most of the models now

4-8 for our area but an area of 12+ around Fire Island lol Lee Goldberg has been talking about this storm