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  1. What about if we were able to make the atmosphere more dusty? Would that cancel out this warming?
  2. I see it's been record hot in Siberia again this summer, back to back summers at 100 or higher at Verkhoyansk? All this smoke and dust from the wild fires has me thinking, how much could we stave off warming by adding dust to the upper atmosphere? One of the reasons cited for the jump in temps after the 70s was the Clean Air Act.
  3. Was so sad to hear about your fish. I've talked to some people about this issue and was told the best thing to do is to have a net over the pond (keeps the predators away from the fish too.) You'll still flood but the fish will be kept inside the pond by the net. I was also told there should be a way to drain the pond so that the water flows downstream into another pond or receptacle.
  4. I think we need to get to climate engineering asap, it's obvious that it's now become necessary.
  5. Looks like it will be even worse tomorrow. Maybe the rain tomorrow night will wash it out?
  6. wow! almost looks like a fire in the water!
  7. whats that weird orange line extending into the water? If it's a reflection, what is it reflecting, there is nothing in the sky like that. I expected to see a reflection of the sun in the water lol
  8. it looks like a blood moon lol
  9. wait how would the atlantic ridge make it to the west coast- and what does that imply for our temps? a hot dry NW to W flow?
  10. whats causing it to come here now? upper level winds?
  11. I'm gonna say 8/20 to 10/31 because of Sandy, tropical season lasts longer than it used to.
  12. why doesnt that ridge extend all the way over to the east coast and dominate the entire country?
  13. and what about what happened in Germany? Horrendous!
  14. Wait for late August and September. Tropical season for us starts August 20th. First I want some hot and dry heat with clear blue skies no humidity no rain and no bugs.
  15. Could we have a cooler July avg than June too?
  16. I hate humidity too, we need to do something about it.
  17. Don what about December 2015 for us, how far above normal was that? And conversely, the cold of February 2015?
  18. perfect weather is temps in the 100s with dew points in the 50s I want to crash Ceres into the Gulf of Mexico and annihilate it and end high dew points forever. I actually have a sim that can do that it gives me something to focus my anger on when it feels like a polluted swamp outside lol. Gulf of Mexico is a useless polluted cesspool that needs to be eradicated.
  19. I see it more likely in the fall and winter rather than spring and summer because of our subtropical rain forest type of rainfall pattern now lol. Could you imagine December 2015 type extremes happening in July? One can only dream..... Of course the temperatures can't ever be that far above normal in the summer, but I was thinking more along the lines of standard deviation.
  20. yeah and may I also add that hot and dry is a lot healthier than hot and humid. When it's hot and dry I have much less breathing issues and no allergies while it's painful for me when it's hot and humid and the bugs multiply like crazy. Actually it doesn't even have to be hot, just very humid with temps in the 70s is unhealthy, with poor air quality and all its issues. Water vapor is a pollutant.
  21. That's why I'm wondering if the kind of extremely high temps like we saw in 2010 and 2011 is going to happen less often now in the summer because climate change has made the WAR much stronger and its influence has extended further north. So maybe we're destined to have a Florida type climate with subtropical summers while the West is where the record high temps will be with all that drought? So I could see our new modified climate consisting of record high temps in the fall and winter and then much rainier and much more humid springs and summers with lots of extremely high dew points and high mins and higher than normal highs, but not the kind of extremes that give us record highs (except for when the record highs are in the low or mid 90s).
  22. But we are not getting the kind of extremes places like Seattle are getting. I'm rather disappointed in the summer here, we haven't had an extreme summer like 2010 since then. Maybe that will end up being the 1995-96 of summers?
  23. Don what do you think of this? Maybe measuring our averages by heat index rather than temperature would give a truer picture of our weather, since it seems like our summer highs won't be going up as much because of higher humidity? TWC did a piece on climate change and in it they said we should be keeping track of heat indices as a measure of heat rather than temperature because humidity is a component of higher heat. They said our thirty year averages should consist of heat index rather than just temperature and that the temperatures out west were likely to rise much more due to climate change than temperatures in the east would because higher humidity and rainfall will cap out our temperatures and make them less extreme than what the west will get. But they said if we measured our averages by heat index that will give a truer indication of the new climate rather than measuring them by temperature alone. Going by that, JFK's record heat was 117 which we got on back to back days just a couple of years ago (actual temp was 99 but it felt like the hottest I've ever experienced here thanks to the humidity.) What do you think of measuring heat by heat index rather than temperature? So a hot day would be a day with a heat index of 90 and we would also keep track of 100+ days as very hot days.
  24. Haven't we seen a lot of rain this summer? It feels like a tropical rain forest around here. I really hate the humidity lol. TWC did a piece on climate change and in it they said we should be keeping track of heat indices as a measure of heat rather than temperature because humidity is a component of higher heat. They said our thirty year averages should consist of heat index rather than just temperature and that the temperatures out west were likely to rise much more due to climate change than temperatures in the east would because higher humidity and rainfall will cap out our temperatures and make them less extreme than what the west will get. But they said if we measured our averages by heat index that will give a truer indication of the new climate rather than measuring them by temperature alone. Going by that, JFK's record heat was 117 which we got on back to back days just a couple of years ago (actual temp was 99 but it felt like the hottest I've ever experienced here thanks to the humidity.) What do you think of measuring heat by heat index rather than temperature? So a hot day would be a day with a heat index of 90 and we would also keep track of 100+ days as very hot days.
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