tacoman25

Stereotype or not, it's just fact that China has way more cheap labor than any other country in the world. The fact that many factories have become more automated doesn't negate that.

GFS is probably on crack, but all models have trended wetter with the system next week.

Jan/Feb weren't bad at all. Both months were colder and snowier than normal for DEN.

Yeah, it's been a historically warm/dry stretch here. DEN has seen a grand total of .14" since 9/29, with nothing so far this month. On track to rival 2021, which holds the record with just .11" in Oct/Nov. Not quite as warm as 2021, but still ridiculous with six 70+ November days now. Just a complete lack of troughing in the region this fall. -ENSO falls tend to be warm and dry, but 2021 and this year are extreme examples.

China has a major nuclear initiative in action. They have dozens of new nuclear power plants currently being built while the U.S. has none. That being said, there is a big push from the current administration to build more (primarily to meet rapidly growing datacenter demand due to the AI frenzy), but previous projects have been very slow to get underway.

And to think, last year at this time we were in the midst of the snowiest November for Denver in over 30 years.

Only .03" here since 10/5. Been a brutal stretch.

DEN set a new November record today with a high of 83.

Yep, lower trend.

This is one of those graphs where the trend line is heavily affected by the starting point. Start in 1987 or 1989 instead of 1982 (which fell during a period of suppressed activity, but there were definitely busier periods prior), and it's quite different.

Does this account for closer monitoring of storms especially those well offshore in recent decades, though?

Yep. And then the Seahawks crushed them in the Super Bowl.

I feel like there is a bit too much focus on the NAO anyway...the EPO is a significantly larger factor for driving cold into the CONUS and generating widespread snowfall.

What about this: Similarly, while we incessantly — and correctly — hear about increasing heat deaths from rising temperatures, we rarely hear that deaths from exposure to cold are much more deadly and decline with rising temperatures. A comprehensive global model, published by The Lancet, shows that the temperature increase this century has reduced cold deaths much more than it has increased heat deaths, meaning that each year, more than 150,000 people each year don’t die from temperature-related mortality.

Been a pretty boring month. Hopefully next one is better.