Loading ...Hammered !
Climate Change ? I’m a convert now.
My Area of Southern Ontario Canada has in the last 24 hours experienced the rain storm of the century.
In January !
Weirdest weather related thing I’ve ever seen .
Usually its Minus 20C here this time of year….and We are inundated with snow
THIS Storm which has just moved out produced a record 100 mm of relentless rain .
As you can see we were hammered
Yeah fully that system moved through Austin last night. We haven’t had rain in a long while so the ground should have soaked it up but it flooded my area in less than an hour.
Aurum, I was looking for a way to comment to you and here you are……You picked the Titans!!!!!
And Fully, you and the Ravens got hammered!
Wow Steins…what a shock that game was
How strange.
It was the opposite here.
The ground was thought to be frozen and this was to compound the flooding.
We live right on a stream which should have overflowed …BUT somehow the 10 Degree day that preceded the storm must have
thawed the ground and much of the rain was absorbed….probably save my house.
strange times
As long as you guys are safe Fully!
The times they are a changin!
BTW….5 degrees at Greenbay!
Thanks Steins for reminding me. Titans stomped the poor Ravens in their own home.
Do you want my stock picks now LOL.
Ha, I had to find the post. Sorry, I took the Texans and the Vikings. But hey, I am still in this with the Texans if tomorrow goes well in KC.
Texans Titans …it’s easy to get confused
🙂
Oh shoot, I read it wrong! Dang
The Titans were the old Houston Oilers if I recall. I’m putting it in the W column!
Climate Change is perpetual.
15000 years ago, you’d be buried under a kilometer or two of ice in eastern Canuckistan.
But then, the fossil record in what is now Alaska includes tropical plants.
And CO2 used to be 5x the current level, back when vegetation was abundant and dinosaurs were too.
Solar Cycle 25 is supposed to bring colder and drier climate for the next decade.
Maybe just not Ontario today. Boston was warmer than we were in Phoenix today.
West Virginia was in the mid 80s. Phoenix hasn’t seen a high over 70 in over a month.
No rhyme, no reason.
Far more severe weather all over the globe last 10 years or more
Storms are setting all time records for ferocity , wetness frequency
Droughts are droughtier and deluges are delugier.
Enough with the denials .
I trust Northstar’s assessment …..there is no way he has an agenda regarding weather. He is a professional and I believe him.
I was doubtful but now I am convinced….
PS…I thought this storm was over but now we are getting 20 more millimeters of ice
sheesh
Single weather events (anomalies) should not be confused with climate change. Next week we could get a polar vortex that freezes the country beyond belief. We have always has fires, droughts, freezes and hot days. However climate change says that theses anomalies become more common as the overall climate warms. The best long term measurements seem to be average ocean temperatures, CO2 changes in the atmosphere, biomass calculation and a bunch of other weird stuff.
Although climate change has been around for epochs, the general consensus seems pretty clear that man-made CO2 emissions are contributing to the acceleration of current climate change phenomena. Vastly reducing man-made CO2 emissions seems to be the only remedy we have. I just don’t know there is political will to make the painful steps required. In the US, the government is trying to roll back any and every climate change regulation (and squash any science that is climate change related), in Australia and China they love their coal fired plants (and the jobs they create) too much.
In summary, if the scientists are correct — we are totally screwed.
As a former scientist, married to a former scientist, I can say without equivocation that our planet is screwed. The tipping point happened long ago, and the pace of extraordinary weather events has ramped up by an alarming degree. Personally we’ve been victim of back-to-back ‘100-yr storms’ recently. First we were caught at sea by a freak storm producing winds off the Beaufort scale, at 124 mph, and only by the skill of an extraordinary captain, survived. A few years later we took a direct hit by a tornado spawned by 107 mph straight-line winds at our summer place in northern MI. Sixty 100-yr oaks & pines went down like match sticks, which trapped us for 5 days; restoration and cleanup took three years. And before all that, we were flooded, at the time living on a stream. I don’t know how climate deniers can say these and hundreds of other extreme weather events now happening non-stop are in the realm of normal variation.
I meant hundreds of extreme weather events of all sizes Per Year worldwide.
… But it’s the number of Billion-dollar extreme weather events in the last decade in the US alone that is truly staggering:
“Number of events
The 14 separate U.S. billion-dollar disasters in 2019 represent the fourth highest total number of events (tied with 2018), following the years 2017 (16), 2011 (16) and 2016 (15). The most recent years of 2019, 2018 and 2017 have each produced more than a dozen billion-dollar disasters to impact the United States—totaling 44 events. This makes a 3-year average of 14.6 billion-dollar disaster events, well above the inflation-adjusted average of 6.5 events per year (1980-2019).
On a slightly longer timeframe, the U.S. has experienced 69 separate billion-dollar disaster events over the last 5 years (2015-2019), an inflation-adjusted average of 13.8 events per year. Over the last 40 years (1980-2019), the years with 10 or more separate billion-dollar disaster events include 1998, 2008, 2011-2012, and 2015-2019.”
2010-2019: A Landmark Decade of U.S. Billion-dollar Weather and Climate Disasters
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/2010-2019-landmark-decade-us-billion-dollar-weather-and-climate
We were in the path of that rain yesterday too, followed by ice last night & didn’t know what to expect next. Not sleeping, and to distract myself, I started going through Goldbaloon’s spectacular albums. “Around the World in 80 Ways” — I love that concept. Our 15 years of travel adventures covered only a small fraction of what he has accomplished, and in different ways and in different areas. Among the many commonalities, 2 stand out: First is Cuba, which he lists first (with an exclamation point!). We were fortunate to be among the few Americans that have been permitted to visit. It’s always the people that I find most interesting in travels, after the beauty of a locale. The Cubans are very unique in that they are poor but educated, highly skilled in the arts, happy, and have a good sense of humor. Their resourcefulness in the face of poverty is truly inspiring. Another commonality, and our all-time favorite: The Queen Mary II. We spent a glorious month on her, crossing the Atlantic twice & in between sailed to all the British Isles, including the Channel Islands. Thanks for the memories for these and other adventures, Bill.
As Fully said, I honestly have no agenda, and I agree, climate change is nothing new. What is new though is the rate at which this is unfolding and the reasons for it. No single event (not even this one) can be put down to climate change BUT the increasing frequency at which they’re occurring DOES point to an underlying trend. The unprecedented fires in Australia, warmth in most of Europe and all of the floods and droughts globally do add up to an overall trend and potential big problem. We are past mid-Winter here in the UK and in Krakow, Poland where my brother lives. Not a single snowflake here and no settling snow there either – completely and totally abnormal. Temperatures of 15 Celsius (60 F) are becoming more and more common in Winter here – it was 17 Celsius in the middle of the night in Scotland a couple of weeks ago – in the depths of Winter when there’s only a few hours of daylight ! That’s much warmer than it should be at night in the middle of Summer. The amount of CO2 in our upper atmosphere is higher than it’s been for hundreds of thousands of years. The graph went vertical around the time of the industrial revolution. That’s not a coincidence. We are currently in a solar minimum. The climate change sceptics have been warning us for years that this would lead to a global freeze. It hasn’t. Even a major solar min has failed to make much impact. Last year was the second warmest in recorded history and 2020 has every chance of being the warmest. CO2 in the upper atmosphere is directly linked to global surface temperatures. The rate of increase in CO2 is unprecedented in the planets history. That’s a big problem, because it takes a long time for natural systems and life to adapt successfully to such change. This is too fast. The expected temperature rises in the next 100 years need to be spread across thousands of years to allow adaptation. Many will disagree and be sceptical. So much misinformation and mistrust of mainstream science. It sometimes feels like we’ve entered some kind of ‘dark age’ where the general population are becoming more and more ill-informed, despite the availability of all the facts at the touch of a button. It seems to be cool to believe the opposite to whatever you happen to be told by those in positions of ‘authority’. Well, I work with first responders in a position of authority and I’m seriously worried for generations to come. We need to radically change the way we do things. Business as usual will consign this wonderful planet of ours to a turbulent. polluted, and increasingly war-torn place. I pray we can avoid environmental catastrophe, but it’s going to be a very close call.
Northstar, how much of a role do sun spot “cycles” play in all this?