What is up, with the weather ?

[phrodeau]

Face it, some people are neurotic about weather and climate. I don't know if that's a symptom of co-dependence or another diagnosable condition. One week, when it's hot, they start babbling about "global warming." The next week, when it's cold, they start yapping about "climate change."

Medieval peasantry couldn't have been more superstitious.

"If you don't know who you are, the stock market is an expensive place to find out."

-"Adam Smith"
(nom de plume of George Goodman)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Goodman​

​

Medieval peasants understand science better than you.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Out of 60 hail reports from Monday collected by the NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center (SPC) as of midday Tuesday, the most impressive was 2.75” (baseball-sized) at a hospital in Wheat Ridge, just northwest of central Denver.

Hail damage in Denver could easily top $100 million


Even small hail can be surprisingly destructive if it comes down in a barrage. Monday’s storm in Denver featured a gamut of sizes, from pea to baseball, in the kind of onslaught that inflicts financial pain on both residents and insurers. Even as the storm unfolded, radar returns made it clear that big hail was likely falling (see this dramatic radar loop).

Insurers were in the field assessing damage on Tuesday. Past experience suggests that a hefty financial toll is possible. “It is entirely plausible that such an event can leave damage into the hundreds of millions, particularly when we get large hail like May 8 hitting densely populated areas,” said Steve Bowen.

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/huge-hail-pummels-denver-more-severe-weather-way

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

"10 years ago, NH dealt with its second 100-year flood within 11 months."

"Patriots’ Day nor’easter brought several inches of rain, catastrophic flooding to Granite State."

That sample of weather history jogs my memory. It took less than a month for Hurricaine Bob (1991) to be followed by the No Name Storm, which caused the most damage.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

A storm in Moscow killed at least 11 people and injured another 13

https://www.buzzfeed.com/janelytvyn...-apocalyptic?utm_term=.ospAmKm645#.wyqzKVKJLq

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

The hottest place in the country was Güttingen on Lake Constance in the canton of Thurgau which broke the 25-degree mark, five degrees hotter than its previous warmest night ten years ago.

Zurich broke its previous record by three degrees by hitting 24.2, making it the hottest ever night since temperatures were first recorded in 1882.

Neuchâtel (24 degrees), Vevey (23.3 degrees), St Gallen (23.2 degrees) and Fribourg (22.1 degrees) all experienced tropical temperatures, said MeteoNews.

https://www.thelocal.ch/20170623/parts-of-switzerland-experience-hottest-night-ever


http://meteonews.ch/en/Country_Selection/K33/Europe


The Swiss meteorological office, MeteoSwiss, said it expected to record at least eight days of extraordinary temperatures in June 2017, compared to an average of two over recent past decades.

The animated graphic below shows how the monthly average temperatures in Switzerland evolved over the past century and a half. An interactive graphic afterward lets users explore the data year by year.


http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/just-ho...f-global-warming-data-in-switzerland/43279510

European heat wave

The rise in pollution was linked to a heat wave that was already breaking records across Europe.

Britain saw its first five-day stretch of temperatures over 30 degrees Celsius in June since 1995 – and the thermometer hit 33.9° in west London, the highest for the month of June since 1976.

Portugal continued to battle deadly forest fires, even as the main blaze was brought under control, with abnormally high temperatures hampering firefighters' efforts.

http://m.france24.com/en/20170622-paris-pollution-peak-driving-ban-europe-heat-wave-longon-portugal

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

July 3, 2017

"I don’t think there was ever an instance of four tornados in one day in Maine.

I don’t think it’s ever happened before,” he said.

He said his office issued seven tornado warnings Saturday, which beat the previous record of five in one day, set in June 2011. It also was more tornado warnings than have ever been issued in a year. The previous record was six, set in 2009, 2010, and 2014.


Hawley said the tornados broke out because of an unstable unusually moist air mass and wind shear, in which the wind is blowing in different directions at the surface and higher in the atmosphere, creating a “kind of spin.”


https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...RJ/story.html?p1=Article_Trending_Most_Viewed

WCVB-TV Boston @WCVB
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Jul 2

Tornado confirmed on west shore of Sebago Lake

 

[magicalmoments]

Medieval peasantry couldn't have been more superstitious.

Oh yes they could.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Excessive heat warning. Temperatures expected to soar above 120 under mostly sunny skies. Winds light and variable. Overnight: West northwest wind to mid teens, gusts to 20 mph. Temps in the low 90s, skies partly cloudy.

http://www.mohavedailynews.com/need...cle_153205a2-6289-11e7-9d8c-1f843dba138d.html

*looks at wildfires*

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Kentucky town caught by surprise by flash flooding. No warning ?

Mason County is under a state of emergency after eight inches of rain in three hours overnight Saturday. The flooding put Maysville’s streets under six inches of water.

“It’s devastation,” said Maysville Mayor David Cartmell. “It’s an epic flood for us, we’ve never had anything like this.”


http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/article163183603.html


I am hoping today's storms are not quite so harsh, for them.

Kentucky seems to have taken a diet of very steady beatings from extreme weather conditions.

Confirmation of tornado hit.

The tornado first downed a large tree on McDowell Rd 2.8 miles south of Hodgenville. It damaged tree tops at the Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park as it moved northeast. At the end of Earl Jones Road, the tornado destroyed one cinder block and wood barn and damaged the roof of another, scattering debris several hundred yards. The tornado then skipped intermittently over primarily open farmland for several miles before uprooting and snapping several trees along Leafdale Road west of Highway 470.

Plenty of straight line winds

"A cold front dropping in from the northwest met up with the remnants of Tropical Storm Cindy coming in from the southwest to cause widespread heavy rain. Wind shear in the low levels of the atmosphere near Cindy's circulation led to tornado development in central Kentucky."

New Hampshire is still limping, trying to pay for the last round of flood damage.

New Hampshire seems to have joined the New Tornado Alley East. More of the plain, simple, straight line wind events ?

New Hampshire history

July 24, 2017

"Nine years ago, a tornado ripped through New Hampshire, passing through 11 communities in five counties and claiming one life."


The tornado touched the ground for about 80 minutes during the middle of the day, beginning about 11:30 a.m.

The tornado traveled 50 miles on the ground, a record for any such storm in New England.

http://www.wmur.com/article/powerful-destructive-tornado-struck-nh-9-years-ago-monday/10349629

On average, New Hampshire has two tornadoes each year. Only four tornadoes since 1821 have been deadly.

 

[MistressMoira]

Winter in the southern hemisphere and we haven't had any cold nights yet. Global warming.

 

[bhurry]

Winter in the southern hemisphere and we haven't had any cold nights yet. Global warming.

send you some. 49 this AM in Wausau Wisconsin. Global warming.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Monsoon in the desert, flash flood in Phoenix AZ. Baltimore County, in Maryland gets hit by violent storms. More water, to add to flood waters.

Increase in vehemence. Where are the roots of this new, increased vehemence ?

 

[magicalmoments]

Winter in the southern hemisphere and we haven't had any cold nights yet. Global warming.

Not in NZ. We're having a wet and cold winter. July rainfall was the highest in several years and It's been below zero each morning every day of August. Which is about normal for where I am. First daffodil of the season bloomed 2 days ago.

 

[cheesehead2]

Not in NZ. We're having a wet and cold winter. July rainfall was the highest in several years and It's been below zero each morning every day of August. Which is about normal for where I am. First daffodil of the season bloomed 2 days ago.

59 this morning in Wausau Wisconsin. Global Warming.

 

[phrodeau]

Not in NZ. We're having a wet and cold winter. July rainfall was the highest in several years and It's been below zero each morning every day of August. Which is about normal for where I am. First daffodil of the season bloomed 2 days ago.

59 this morning in Wausau Wisconsin. Global Warming.

There's a heat wave this week across Europe so bad they're calling it Lucifer.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny

This global warming worries me. We're back in central Illinois and it was 54 degrees this morning in August. Colder than Wisconsin. I sure hope this global warming doesn't get too hot.
They are getting lots of rain and wind in Chicago, the windy city. That could be Obama's fault.

I blame Aliens or Trump. Or maybe it's just Mother Nature doing her thing.

 

[phrodeau]

Five southern Europeans have died from Lucifer so far.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Lucifer and the hot heads-

Not a good combination.


https://www.theguardian.com/travel/...port-queues-protests-holiday-season-from-hell

Now, I understand the applause that tornados get, in the Mid-West of America.

 

[sharingfantasies]

Monsoon in the desert, flash flood in Phoenix AZ. Baltimore County, in Maryland gets hit by violent storms. More water, to add to flood waters.

Increase in vehemence. Where are the roots of this new, increased vehemence ?

The rest I don't know about, but flash flooding in Phoenix is annual. It comes with the monsoon rains which come every summer.

Yesterday, it was sunny and dry as I sat at the computer looking out the window, but in the back of my small cabin, it was raining. If I hadn't gotten up and gone back there I wouldn't have even known it was raining.

 

[cheesehead2]

This global warming worries me. We're back in central Illinois and it was 54 degrees this morning in August. Colder than Wisconsin. I sure hope this global warming doesn't get too hot.
They are getting lots of rain and wind in Chicago, the windy city. That could be Obama's fault.

I blame Aliens or Trump. Or maybe it's just Mother Nature doing her thing.

Neither. Illinois just has no money to buy warm weather. Saving to build the Little Kings Library.

 

[Hypoxia]

This global warming worries me. We're back in central Illinois and it was 54 degrees this morning in August. Colder than Wisconsin. I sure hope this global warming doesn't get too hot.

[sigh] Global warming doesn't mean hotter temperatures. It means more energetic weather: hotter heat waves, stormier storms, drenching rains and floods, drier droughts, badder blizzards, and shifting patterns. Portland OR hit around 108F a couple days ago. Hot enough for you?

 

[phrodeau]

Al Gore was recently on Real Time with Bill Maher, but because he rode an airplane to get there, we can safely ignore everything he had to say.

 

[JackLuis]

Al Gore on surge in climate disasters: TV News has become ‘a nature hike through the Book of Revelation’

Al's getting all New Testament!

Al Gore believes the apocalypse is upon us.

The former vice president sat down with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria and explained how TV news these days is like a “nature hike through the Book of Revelation.”

The creator of new documentary, “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,” alluded to reports of extreme weather, saying the US has been hit with “11 once-in-a-thousand-year events” in just the past 7 years.

“Though the scientists have long connected the dots, the carbon polluters have mounted this lavishly funded, rear-guard action to pretend there’s still a debate,” Gore said.

“But again, Mother Nature is piercing that veil and convincing people that, whether they want to use the terms ‘global warming’ or ‘climate crisis’ or not, they can see for themselves with the evidence of their own senses that things are really changing for the worse.”

 

[Hypoxia]

the solution

Big fucking orbital mirrors, cheap and easy (big metalized bubbles cut just right by little workbots) to deflect sunlight away from Earth, thus allowing Earthlings to continue farting greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere without melting-down the biosphere.

For our next trick, we'll bio-engineer bacteria to eat oceanic plastics and petroleum waste and fart-out oxygen and water vapor. Just hope they can't be trained to eat political dissidents.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Summer storms drench Kansas City with nearly 3 times the normal rainfall

Flooding made many roads impassable, trapping people at homes and businesses along the Blue River and Indian Creek, which set a new record of 28.22 feet overnight and topped its banks after record flooding last month. Water spilling out of Indian Creek inundated bridges, businesses, apartments and houses.

For just the second time ever, the National Weather Service issued a flash flood emergency alert for the entire Kansas City area. The first time was last August.

http://www.kansascity.com/weather/article168573032.html

The latest rounds of storms caused historic flooding in south Kansas City along Indian Creek at State Line where the water crested at 28.22, breaking a record set last month.

The torrential rains from the storms Monday prompted the National Weather Service to issue a flash flood emergency alert for the entire Kansas City area.

This was just the second time that the National Weather issued a flash flood emergency alert for the Kansas City area — the last time was a year ago, for Aug. 26 and 27, Welsh said.


http://www.kansascity.com/weather/article168678627.html