LibertyBell

sounds like the kind of storm we might see a lot of this winter

weird on different precip maps, I've seen western NJ and eastern PA jackpotting and on some I see Long Island jackpotting lol. also how high will the winds be? This wont even be a TS when it gets here and yet I see forecasts of high winds?

and I was thinking like maybe a few winters from now lol

you're not aware of the mass extinction we're in right now? One third of all bird species and even 40% of plant species will be extinct by 2100

I always come back to Max Planck..... Planck experienced the truth of his own earlier observation from his struggle with the older views in his younger years: "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."

I thought Colorado was a progressive state but Hickenlooper basically let the cartel run his state and they got away with causing so much property damage from fracking induced earthquakes.

Like you said we may be switching to a pattern of record blocks in different parts of the world. If so, maybe in a few years, we will get this kind of pattern again, even if it has diminishing returns with a warming background state.

I was in high school when that happened, I was more depressed that day than any other day during the 80s.

our w.e. champ for winter storms lol, all snow that would have been 50".... was it below freezing for that entire storm here?

wow was that a stalled noreaster? how did we do in Dec 1991?

at JFK and SW Nassau we had an inch of rain followed by double digit snow, first time ever for that lol

that was the day that the kids died in the school cafeteria in Westchester wasn't it? wow that outbreak was bigger than our Labor Day 1998 outbreak?

That was the craziest fall- haven't seen one like it since. Basically went from this historic severe weather outbreak to like a week straight of high winds, with all the leaves down before Thanksgiving, to this dry powdery snowfall that stuck to the roads immediately. And the NYC measurement of 4.7 only tells part of the story, south and east of the city there was double that much snow, with 6" here in western LI and 10" out on the east end and also down in central and southern NJ including ACY. Then we went into the deep freeze for all of December, with small 1-2" clippers all month, but it was so damn cold that what little snow fell hung around all month and our waterways froze over. There was only a small thaw in the middle of the month that came from a blown forecast of 6-8 inches of snow but the secondary formed too close to the coast and instead of thundersnow we got thunder rain lol. Then record warmth with a 40 degree avg temp for Jan and Feb combined and then historic mid and upper 80s and Bermuda shorts by Mid March lol- no need to go anywhere for spring break that year! And that busted snowfall forecast was the diametric opposite of the blown call the previous February when we were also supposed to get 6-8 inches of snow but got 6-8 inches of virga instead as the snow fell to our south, up to 20 inches near ACY. Ah, those were the days.....

Yeah and I think in the middle of it there was a tornado that killed like 10 kids in a school cafeteria in Westchester

Was that a derecho? Do you remember the extreme October event in the late 80s? I forgot what year it was- either 87 or 89?

Chris, when was the last time NYC has had 1.0" of LE (all snow) in two consecutive days?

it's already happening with sea level rise. People from island nations in the Pacific are migrating to Australia and for example in the US, people have been forced to relocate from LA coastal areas which are no longer habitable because of sea level rise.

Prince William has just launched his "Earthshot Program" to award 5.3 million each to 5 winners every year dedicated to protecting the planet, inspired by JFK's Moonshot Program

Incentivizing green energy is a good thing, the thing we need to stop is subsidizing the fossil fuel industry with taxpayer money. About burning wood, it needs to be disincentivized by taxing it, the same way Ireland decided to tax Subway "bread" higher because it isn't real bread (10% sugar) and not part of a healthy diet.

Yes, burning wood, is just another way to release more carbon ....

Yes! and did you see where they mentioned what China is doing? Devious! The best part of the series for me was them showing how much more open to manipulation humans are versus other animals, and how to hack one's own mind in order to filter out bad information. Very useful.

2030? are you from the future or just stuck in the past lol

even if you dont believe that climate change is an existential threat, you should know that fossil fuels lower air quality, fracking causes earthquakes (via wastewater injection) and a general increase in pollution.

Carbon taxes? That would work, but tax the fossil fuel companies even more than the consumers. But this has to be done on a global level......when was the last time humanity did anything on a global level? The ozone layer problem (which btw the ozone layer is getting larger now over Antarctica.)

These wildfire complexes are particularly alarming, as large fires are now joining together to become huge megafires. The first million acre megafire was just recorded.