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47 minutes ago, gravitylover said:

I'm no good at math. I used to get my kids homework wrong when they were in second grade so the teacher told them to find someone else to help. I'm ok with it.

Very clever, teach the kids early that they should not rely on the parent for answers to their problems. Well done!

4 minutes ago, EasternLI said:

The scientists on Twitter who study this stuff are really buzzing about it. So that grabs my attention for sure. Sure looks like a very impressive event. 

Think that getting a large eruption caught in the act by a very capable satellite is what these scientists dream about..

That said, Krakatoa was much more devastating, perhaps because it was in a more settled space. But also the shock wave was recorded sweeping the earth repeatedly, so a much larger amplitude event.

Thank you all, Miller.b.time, so- whats-happening and Dalfy!

You've really posted useful info.  

Is it possible these recommendations could be put on a sticky?

Hey Irish,

So sorry to hear about your family issues. We all have them, in greater or lesser amounts.

Sadly we all get old and frail, certainly not what we'd planned for, but life happens. Just keep the faith, it will work out somehow.

Please keep adding your wit and wisdom to this site, it's what makes the place worth visiting.

56 minutes ago, Rjay said:

Off by 361 days.  

So just about a bullseye, by long range forecasting standards.

A serious loss. 

I cannot understand why such an enormously talented and skilled individual is not taken up by some meteorological site.

I'd pay to read what this man thinks, suspect others might as well.

49 minutes ago, forkyfork said:

climate change is cancelled!!!

At least for the northern hemisphere.

I believe the Antarctic is considerably less icy than usual.

5 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

it's too pretty to eat!

 

Just start from the bottom. 

There is more there as well...

If you have to ask, 100% sure.

12 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

I hear geese in the middle of the night, are they migrating this late?

Absolutely, they are just as lazy as we are, so they do the minimum migration necessary.

If they sense that they cut it too fine, they head further south.

Sadly we've not got their weather smarts, so we get surprised every time.

On 12/11/2021 at 2:21 PM, BxEngine said:

This is the dog that is named after that beer lol

Lovely dog, just in great shape.

But why call her 'Lake Placid'? Extra calm disposition, unusual for that breed?

Honestly doubt that the quantum world uncertainties will impact our mundane weather and climate issues.

Right now, afaik, we cannot even model the impact of earth's spin along with the daytime and nighttime on the atmosphere all that well and nor has any  model generated the Roman or the Medieval climatic optimum, so we are still groping with the basics.

Lots of room for humility in climate science, imho.

2 hours ago, lee59 said:

I have never seen the site in Central Park but I wonder if they want to keep it somewhat hidden because of possible vandalism. Of course they still can keep it reasonably under control with the overgrowth.

The site is surrounded by a 10' cyclone fence with razor wire on top, so it takes determination to vandalize these instruments.

Actually, the Park is pretty well cared for at the moment, vandalism is down to its lowest levels in decades. However, the tree cover is also at its fullest in decades and surely skews the readings.

I'd not thought of the trades driven by cooling degree days, but there is a very active market in that supporting the natural gas futures.  Possibly there might be a legal liability here.

10 hours ago, chubbs said:

Thought that tree rings measure warm season moisture, rather than temperature.

Separately, I have to question this graph, if only because the Briffa tree ring data showed a decline since the mid 1900s, which is not reflected here. 

34 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

Govt aint going to do shit, it's people like Musk who will finally end our dependence on fossil fuels, his new assembly line will build a new EV every 10 hours

 

Elon Musk believes he can radically change how cars are put together with Tesla's Giga Press / Twitter

So we need lots of electric generating capacity to power all those cheap electric cars.

Is that why the price of coal has gone way up recently?

8 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

Goes along with my thinking, overpopulation is one of the largest problems humans face and we need to keep it at 10 billion or under

 

https://www.livescience.com/16493-people-planet-earth-support.html

Japan, whose population is falling,  has been the precursor country for all of the industrialized world, in Europe, the Americas and Asia.

Their populations too are aging, with way below replacement birth rates. China and increasingly India are on the same trajectory

Overpopulation is getting to be a regional issue, mostly in Muslim communities.

Sad to say, no confidence at all in any of these 'forecasts'.

Here in sunny Manhattan, the forecast changed in minutes from weekly nighttime lows in the high 40s to the mid 30s .

Clearly there remains great uncertainty.

Imho, forecasts will not improve until forecasters are compelled to post their prior forecasts as well.

Right now, the past is completely opaque, no weather channel afaik allows one to go back a day to see what actually happened.

This unwillingness to honestly face up to what worked and what did not is probably a result of TV/net  channel pressures, the effect remains the same.

Those unable to learn from the past simply make the same mistakes again.

1 hour ago, skierinvermont said:

I don't know where you people even find this nonsense. Solar and wind are less than half the price of nuclear to produce the same amount of power. This is one guy on the internet that hasn't even appropriately sourced anything he's said.

Not sure that name plate power rating gives a full story. Nuclear is pretty much what it says on the tin, apart from re-fueling breaks. 

Solar at peak should be derated by about a factor of 4 to 6 to account for the night time outage and the less than full sun seasonal and daytime intervals.

Wind is similarly intermittent, except that too strong also halts the turbines, so at least similar derating as solar.

In theory, those issues can be solved by very dispersed siting and massive interconnects, but those discussions are nowhere near the needed depth, much less close to getting political support.

3 minutes ago, Stormlover74 said:

is winter canceled yet?

Please be a little patient. No winter cancellations before Nov 21rst. After that, it's open season.

2 hours ago, rclab said:

Depending on your tastes/location, ketchup could be considered aromatic. That of course will depend on your aroma-therapy needs. As always ….

Afaik, ketchup is considered a vegetable serving, so an essential element in a balanced diet. Has there been a recent change in the guidance?

14 minutes ago, EpicJolee said:

What about Central Park? Also, if there is a special topic for that type of things here (specially for NYC) please send it to me. Thank U

Central Park is weird currently, buried under a canopy of shrubs and trees.

I don't see how anyone can take the measurements from there seriously. You are probably better served using the Upper West Side site from the AMNH, there is actually a real person there who takes the data and the place has been there for more than a century, so the environment is pretty stable, in contrast to Central Park.

1 hour ago, Rjay said:

These are the mfs I'm talking about.  I thought one was going to eat me in St Maarten.

The videos do not show it, but these centipedes have a very impressive set of fangs with poison glands under their second segment.

As long as they don't get excited, say by dropping on you from an overhanging shrub, you should be OK.

Otherwise, the good news is that the bites are not fatal to humans, albeit very painful.

2 hours ago, skierinvermont said:

Odds of the reconciliation bill dropped significantly in betting markets after they passed the infrastructure bill.

Well, AOC was pretty clear that she needed to hold the infrastructure bill to shield the larger reconciliation.

Think that is why she voted against it, because with it passed, she has no leverage. The bookies agree with her, they are not stupid either.

47 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

what are shower spiders?

Think they live in shower heads, so they are not easily spotted.

 

4 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

I see we have wild parrots on long island!  a whole flock of them....I wonder how they got here and if they spend the winter here?

 

Feral Monk Parakeets are well established residents in the NY area. They build large communal nests, often around transformers which then act as central heating during the winter. Con Ed is consequently not fond of them.