LibertyBell

Doing my regular update on the latest episode of Cosmos: Possible Worlds, since it's the only thing I'd ever watch on FOX aside from sporting events. Just watched the latest mindblowing episode of Cosmos: Possible Worlds with Neil Degrasse Tyson and he talked about the dual nature of light, quantum mechanics, possible parallel universes (MWI style) and higher dimensions. When discussing entanglement and instantaneous action at a distance and how it violates classical physics and how two particles entangled together though billions of light years apart can change spin at the exact same moment, until an observer interferes by the mere act of observing (and violates relativity for that matter), he brought up the idea of superdeterminism, something I've been considering for awhile now as the only way out of the quantum paradox, that the entire history of the universe was actually decided at its inception (no free will,etc.) I've always believed free will to be an illusion, and that behavior at the quantum level shows that instead of cause and effect, the entire history of the universe was decided when it was rebooted. His point though was just because free will is an illusion it doesn't mean we should behave as though we know it's an illusion.

I think you guys would find this interesting. TWC posted a color coded map showing where snowy Novembers led to snowy winters, or not-snowy winters or no correlation at all. Around the Great Lakes it was a positive correlation, for the east coast it was a negative correlation and for the middle of the country there was no correlation.

It was 37 and snowing in Birmingham Alabama also.

Who knows, maybe we'll get the elusive triple phaser this year! Has any research been done to see which ENSO phase is most likely during triple phasers?

We got the record, YES!

this line is turning into a nothingburger as it gets closer to the coast, which is typical behavior for thunderstorms.

That line looks like it's starting to break up as it nears the coast.

why cant they just kill off the beetles?

a bonafide squall line

But if you go back to the November 15 event, that one had strong winds everywhere, did they come from a different direction?

yeah dont want power outages lol especially during cold storms.

Not to mention the cars that have been crashing into these outdoor seating areas.

is that the high for the day?

we need some sort of national park on Long Island where trees dont get cut. we do have some state parks.

Chris, are we going to make the record for the warmest November on record?

Yeah I like long lasting storms even if the rates are only moderate. Some of our best storms have been like that.

and then a four month long depression in the nonwinter of 01-02.....

that was backside snow that often gets mentioned but rarely occurs Of course people's expectations were much higher than just some backside snow. We had 5" here in SW Nassau, I think Patchogue got a foot? That was the highest amount I saw mentioned on Long Island. SW CT got a lot more.

looks like temps around 70 to our south fueled this line.

I dont get why the wind didn't hit here since we're all east of the storm track....but tornado warnings were really close.

Got any reports out of SW Nassau, Chris? I heard 58 mph at JFK/Inwood?

More than yearly...we just had an event like this a couple of weeks ago lol

Yes, that was my marker for power outages and tree damage, but it's not as bad anymore (of course we dont have leaves on the trees anymore either). Isaias caused a lot of damage though, but that was 70+....winds that strong will still cause a lot of damage

There were several reports of tornadoes where I am right now in Eastern PA, the sky was a nasty green color.

Yes I have high hopes for future generations as it seems like they have a sense of urgency the rest are lacking. And by future I mean like within the next 5-10 years lol