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  1. LibertyBell
    2 things that concern me.....1 is the performance of the batteries in very cold weather (I see Norway has a lot of them though so maybe this isn't so serious of a problem)? and 2 is establishing the kind of charging infrastructure we need to allow people to drive long distances with them. I see hybrids as a good middle ground for now and work towards full electric within 20 years.
  2. LibertyBell
    they behave more like a family, an entirely different dynamic they have there.
  3. LibertyBell
    according to some models, it's already in the Atlantic....
  4. LibertyBell
    wow at this rate, all that talk of coastal mix will be gone and suppression will be the thing to worry about
  5. LibertyBell
    GM just announced going all electric within the next 15 years, so this is good news. It remains to be seen how all these new resolutions will take to actually help us undo the last 100 years.
  6. LibertyBell
    yeah he's definitely not a "regular working guy" and can afford to lose a few (billion). as for this snowstorm is concerned, we definitely dont seem to have a margin of error anywhere near as large.
  7. LibertyBell
    Don was that Jan 1966 also of long duration and the heaviest storm of the year? If memory serves, that season was best further south; Norfolk had over 40" It was an el nino year. and our best winter of that decade was actually the following season, 66-67, after a historically dry and hot summer. Big streak of historically dry years that was broken by that 66-67 winter
  8. LibertyBell
    got to wonder when the last time was we had a 36 hour storm of any type.
  9. LibertyBell
    okay this is a good middle ground, wish success on the Mets as long as Cohen loses mightily in the stock market.
  10. LibertyBell
    thats called threading the needle with a needle thats thinner than the thread
  11. LibertyBell
    yea no kidding, no idea who that even is.
  12. LibertyBell
    everyone except flat earthers knows about the "new" climate. and lol at trolled/attacked, you're doing something wrong if the vast majority of the board cant stand you.
  13. LibertyBell
    wow sounds like they're more common this year? Is this their typical winter ground and then they end up back in Canada during the summer?
  14. LibertyBell
    I guess this is how you have suppressed systems that aren't all that great for coastal areas either.
  15. LibertyBell
    one of these days we're going to have a storm where the mix line and the shaft line are within blocks from each other lol. the width of wintry precip seems to be getting narrower every year.
  16. LibertyBell
    first time I'd seen snow that heavy in about a decade! March 1993 was great too, but changed to sleet and rain here by the time precip rates got truly heavy. The thundersnow from the first Feb 1994 event was something to behold- 2-4 inches per hour made it seem like an avalanche was falling from the sky!
  17. LibertyBell
    I feel like I'm missing out on these. The only times I've seen Snowy Owls is when I'm driving to the Poconos late at night and I've seen them there a couple of times (one time sitting right in the middle of the road)! I've heard some owls actually hunt by crawling along the ground rather than by flying? Usually near a full moon. I've been in the Gateway Recreational Area a few times, do you think they could be there or any of the marshland that surrounds JFK airport? That used to be a famous birding area during its old Idlewild days.
  18. LibertyBell
    Not to completely divert off-topic here but I think we can colonize with domes and perhaps even produce atmosphere before we can forcefully manipulate the randomness of chaotic liquid flow eddies between low and high pressures. Perhaps even being able to make a planet breathable before we can control thermal-coupled dynamics between the Earth's oceans and driving lapse rates into its atmosphere. That is some serious physics control there that might come far later even into space exploration and settlement. Take a planet like Venus, for example. Yikes. We've got a long way to go before we can simply snuff out a macro system like a Category 5 hurricane. Good thinking! That's why I think "prevention" would come far before "cure" could (like simulating shear or somehow being able to lower sea temps). The kind of circulation adjustments involved though may be extremely complicated to create and we'd of course we'd have to weigh benefits vs risks. The dome and artificial atmosphere idea for colonization is extremely intriguing, I suppose we could first develop that in space before even colonizing another world. Having a space colony orbiting earth sounds like a good testing ground. Speaking of Venus, it may have a habitable zone, but it would have to be far up in the atmosphere. The idea of a floating city as you describe it (with a dome and breathable bubble within it) sounds intriguing.
  19. LibertyBell
    oh when they said that this is the first one seen since 1890 I assumed they meant it's extremely rare for them to ever be in our region. If they are regularly seen on Long Island why has it been that long since one has been spotted at the park? Is it because they avoid humans?
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    If humans or its resulting AI civilization doesn't extinguish / destroy itself, it is hypothetically possible that some sentient intelligence will be able to control the planet's weather at some point in the distant future. However, in the shorter term, it is likely unachievable from an macro engineering scale and far more realistic that we merely take better actions to protect coastal communities and advance their preparedness. I mean, that is if you even give any credence or thoughts to the Kardashev scale. Your thoughts dovetail mine. In addition to the Kardashev scale, I think it's logical that this type of geoengineering will be a prerequisite before we can colonize other worlds (for example, Mars.) Some of the techniques developed to do that there may also be applied here (which seems to often be the case with developments from our space program.) Much more reasonable within our lifetimes though would be protecting our coastal communities and better preparing them. I see that cities near the water are developing safeguards against excessive flooding (both from the ocean and from the sky), some of which involves promoting a natural flood plain (like Houston) or creating checks on rising sea levels to prevent them from flooding cities (for example Miami, Charleston and even NYC.)
  21. LibertyBell
    you'd think they'd mention snow to mix to more snow as being more likely if they were indeed going to go that route like we had back in December. According to the graphics posted, this looks to track further offshore than the Dec storm.
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    wow I cant think of any matching that description either....might have to go back to the early part of the century. I'd like to see someone do a detailed analysis of the strange storm that happened in Feb 1920 and lasted for 3 days.
  23. LibertyBell
    could be that the highest amounts are between Wilmington and NYC but away from the coast.
  24. LibertyBell
    https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php?word=vertically stacked system Vertically Stacked System A low-pressure system, usually a closed low or cutoff low, which is not tilted with height, i.e., located similarly at all levels of the atmosphere. Such systems typically are weakening and are slow-moving, and are less likely to produce severe weather than tilted systems. However, cold pools aloft associated with vertically-stacked systems may enhance instability enough to produce severe weather. http://lukemweather.blogspot.com/2011/09/stacked-low.html https://stormtrack.org/community/threads/vertically-stacked-low.17344/ https://www.extremestorms.com.au/glossary/vertically-stacked-system/ A low-pressure system, usually a closed low or cutoff low, which is not tilted with height, i.e., located similarly at all levels of the atmosphere. These are my favorite types of storms, something special about vertical stacking that satisfies the perfectionist in me.
  25. LibertyBell
    right this actually reminds me of the February 1994 events. Although what is and isn't a KU event can be open to interpretation.... I imagine by KU event you mean NESIS 3 and higher?
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