Brewbeer

This forum is the best local/new england weather forecasting resource on the interwebs, by far. The combination of skilled experienced mets and super enthusiastic amateurs analyzing data and discussing possibilities provide the best analysis and forecasting that one can reasonably access, even if cluttered with OT stuff. Kudos to all who contribute to this resource, I've found no better.

Still cold and calm here, 38F

congrats powderfreak

still snowing here, looks like more coming for you

28/27 with light snow, a bit less than an inch

currently 36/28, partly cloudy, occasional north breeze

don't you live in the coastal northeast ?

5/2, boiler is humming

mixing here now, 30/28

29/27 here, about an inch or so on the ground, good snow growth

overcast and 28/21, up from a midnight low of 20. no school cancellation here, daughter not happy

freezing rain ?

Prediction: humanity isn't going to acknowledge, and really get serious about this issue, for at least 50 years, and I won't live long enough to see it happen. It's going to take "some sizable percentage of Miami becoming too inconvenient" before there is serious societal change in how we view consumption of fossil fuels and how that is changing our planet I think Don or Tip has previously posted about this conundrum of the human condition: even though humanity has advanced to the point where we can confidently and purposefully choose to shape our future, our evolutionary DNA makes humanity, as a whole, reactionary

it's easy for those of us who live several tens or hundreds of feet above sea level to say this sort of stuff, but doing so is denialism with respect to the real flooding that already occurs in Miami neighborhoods (and other sea level locations around the world), flooding that has increased in extent, frequency and intensity over the years, even during fair weather. and let's not forget that Miami is underlain by porous limestone - the ocean will come in underneath any wall that is built. while rich people can afford to move to higher ground and/or hire companies to raise their ground, that isn't affordable for 90% of the people from the perspective of the person who lives in that house in that neighborhood in the Miami suburbs dealing with increasing frequency and intensity of flooding at their house and neighborhood, my post doesn't seem "alarmist" or "absurdly-hyperbolic" or "ludicrous" at all. It's real. What do they think? How much of their neighborhood needs to be impacted before they consider their property to be affected ? How much of the population / land area of the city needs to be impacted before there is acknowledgement the health of the city is being threatened ? is it 90% ? 75% ? 50% ? And Miami is only one city; there are dozens of low-lying coastal cities across our country and world that are going to see major impacts as coastlines advance to bring this back to the point of the discussion: how much of Miami needs to be inconvenienced/undesirable/uninhabitable before we acknowledge that the cost of climate change is a factor in the cost of a watt of fossil fuel derived power ?

Andover will be fine, but North Andover, watch out ! bring your tire chains