LibertyBell

the sky is a pale yellow here.....

One of the reasons I chose 08-09 is because it came after two back to back well below normal snowfall seasons and also follows the snowy March theme we have seen in recent years.

does 08-09 sound like a reasonable analog to you?

may be a major at landfall

Prediction is for lows of 37-38 at my other home in NE PA and highs in the upper 50s for next weekend.

We'll be onto the Greek alphabet before the end of this month. Will beat 2005 in total tropical storms, but not in hurricanes or majors.

I like the European heat index better, it accounts for sun angle, wind speed and other variables. Question- what is the difference between wet bulb temperature and dew point?

Nature paper on life on Venus https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1174-4.pdfhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1174-4.pdf

Sudden methane release would be an ELE (extinction level event)....it has happened in the past and caused mass extinctions....

One of the higher execs in FB regularly attends Trump banquets.

On a lighter note, if life can exist on the Greenhouse Hellhole that is Venus, we should be fine even if we burn all the carbon on the planet right?! You know I'm kidding.....

Don, on a more positive note, this is breaking news from the British RAS

San Francisco, Portland and Seattle all have the worst air quality on the planet.

Yes all those la nina winters that I remember from the late 80s thru early 90s had very little snow in December, some of them only a T. I'd be thrilled if we even had an average winter, something like 08-09!

brilliant sunrises/sunsets for us?

Yes, I remember having to wear sweaters quite regularly in late September going back to the 90s, haven't done that in at least a decade or more.

So minimum hasn't been reached yet, Don?

It'll be awesome when FakeBook gets regulated to death

Did you see the replies, Don? Looks like FakeBook has been doing this for years!

Yeah, I see they learn from their previous mistakes there. One good thing to come out of all this is that China is closing down all the wet markets that were prevalent there. Wish we would do the same in NY.

It looks like it went into high gear around 2000 (see post above) when our consumerist-oriented society went into high gear also. It also depends on the source of the sugar. I'm pre-diabetic and I have no problem eating bananas or tangerines. Nature has packaged those sugars in such a way as to minimize their side effects- both have a high number of B vitamins, which metabolize the sugar. But if I eat a chocolate bar, I get dizzy. So a pretty big difference between sugar in processed food and healthy natural sources like fruits. The sugar industry didn't help matters when they covered up research in the 70s....funny how these cartels work, the fossil fuel cartel and tobacco cartels did the same thing.

I will match that to a change in our society since 2000. We seem to have become a much more consumer oriented society. An example from an entirely different arena is the diabetes epidemic and obesity becoming much more prevalent since 2000 (a higher consumption of processed fast food and food deserts)- and a concurrent rise in the prices of lifesaving drugs. Everything is connected.

I dont believe either of them is lying. Even though I strenuously disagree with "Blizzard" if you psychoanalyze his posts, you can see that he believes what he is posting. His anger seems to be legit. We all have our own biases and it takes a lot to bring down that wall. It's best to keep personal attacks to a minimum, because that only causes more stubbornness and then both sides dig in, regardless of the available evidence. Attack bad ideas, not the people who espouse them.

In Iceland they are now using artificial means to try to keep the glaciers from melting!

On top of that, we can superimpose the West's horrid history of wildfires- 17 of the top 20 fire seasons have occurred since 2000. The fire season has also grown an average of 75 days longer in the 2 decades since 2000 than it was before.