Occasional Thoughts on Climate Change

[WolfStock1]

Funny the Florida example should come up.  U-Haul just came out with their annual migration index the other day:

https://www.uhaul.com/About/Migration/

Florida is the #2 growth state, with 8 of the top 10 and 12 of the top 25 growth metros.

Lots of people committing suicide, I guess.

(in case anyone's wondering - Texas is the #1 state and California is #50)

 

 

[ChescoWx]

Some folks had asked me to perform an analysis of both the Winter and Summer Average Temperature by Complete Decades for just here in Chester County from the 1900's thru the 2010's. You will see the very cyclical nature of our warming and cooling patterns. Overall, we have seen some slight warming of winters and conversely some cooling of our summers across Chester County PA. The warmest decade for both summers and winters was way back in the 1930's. Of note so far here in the partial decade of the 2020's we are so far running as the warmest winter decade since the 1930's!! However, last winter was the coldest winter in 10 years and we are off to a colder than normal start to this winter so we will wait and see if this is the start of the next cooling trend across the County. These are also updated on the http://www.chescowx.com website. Let me know if you have any questions.

[chubbs]

Large increase in 0-2000m ocean heat content last year. NOAA data through mid-year also shows a large increase.

[WolfStock1]

32 minutes ago, chubbs said:

Large increase in 0-2000m ocean heat content last year. NOAA data through mid-year also shows a large increase.

 

Request - whenever providing data like this, please provide a link to the source.

[bluewave]

 

Brian McNoldy

 

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The average water level measured at Virginia Key (near #Miami) set a new monthly record high in October, which is also the new *all-time* record high month. I also feel confident that it was the highest monthly water level there since the last interglacial period... ~120,000 years ago.

 

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ALT

8:12 AM · Nov 2, 2025

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[chubbs]

1 hour ago, WolfStock1 said:

 

Request - whenever providing data like this, please provide a link to the source.

http://www.ocean.iap.ac.cn/pages/dataService/dataService.html?languageType=en&navAnchor=dataService

[chubbs]

54 minutes ago, bluewave said:

 

Brian McNoldy

 

‪@bmcnoldy.bsky.social‬

 

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The average water level measured at Virginia Key (near #Miami) set a new monthly record high in October, which is also the new *all-time* record high month. I also feel confident that it was the highest monthly water level there since the last interglacial period... ~120,000 years ago.

 

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ALT

8:12 AM · Nov 2, 2025

Everybody can

Sea level rise is accelerating along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts. Here are Savannah and Cape May for instance. Data available at link below.

https://psmsl.org/data/obtaining/stations/395.php

Savannah

Cape May

[Typhoon Tip]

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-ocean-temperatures-high.html

[bluewave]

On 1/8/2026 at 7:20 AM, chubbs said:

Yes impressive cold in Alaska and Yukon. Cool here in Philly also. Our coolest December since 2010. 

The shrinking Northern Hemisphere cold pool is leading to these Arctic outbreaks covering a smaller geographic region than they used to. 
 

 

[chubbs]

1 hour ago, Typhoon Tip said:

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-ocean-temperatures-high.html

A chart from the technical paper shows that the rate of ocean warming is increasing. Note that data is from a number of sources including satellite net radiation measurements.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-026-5876-0

 

[bluewave]

1 hour ago, chubbs said:

Sea level rise is accelerating along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts. Here are Savannah and Cape May for instance. Data available at link below.

https://psmsl.org/data/obtaining/stations/395.php

Savannah

Cape May

Significant increase in high tide or sunny day flooding across the areas in Florida which have experienced the greatest sea level rise.

https://southeastfloridaclimatecompact.org/initiative/climate-indicators-high-tide-flooding/