Posted on 01/29/2016 8:06:33 AM PST by gorush
After last weekend’s East Coast blizzard, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said “we’re in an age of extreme weather.†I’ve been studying and forecasting the weather since I was 12 years old in the mid 1970s and have come to the conclusion that I agree with de Blasio.
I’ll add to de Blasio’s comment that not only do I think we’re in an age of extreme weather, but I think that “age†started more than 20 years ago when Hurricane Andrew hit south Florida in 1992, followed by the “storm of the century†in 1993. Perhaps some could counter with stories of bigger storms prior to 1964 when I was born, but most meteorologists concur that that the last 20 years or so has brought an unusual number of devastating weather phenomenon compared to years prior.
The last several months have been a good example of wild weather that has hit the U.S. October brought historic flooding to South Carolina while record high temperatures hit the northern part of the country in December, including a spring-like 58 degree record in the Dells on Dec. 14. Tornadoes in Texas in December claimed nearly a dozen lives, followed by more deadly tornadoes in Florida recently. California was then inundated with record rainfall breaking an historic drought, and of course the super storm that slammed the mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Saturday and Sunday.
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Nonsense.
call it extreme weather or vortex but it’s still weather
I’ve read that there were more frequent and more severe hurricanes in the 1920s and 1930s.
The hottest summers on record were in the late 1930’s.
The most severe hurricane hit Galveston, Texas in 1900.
I seem to remember some pretty severe weather extremes in the 60’s,70’s and 80’s. Then tapered off thru 90’s and early 00’s.
So now we are just making up for lost weather etremes
Forgot about the Blizzard of 88, and I don’t mean 1988.
I always wondered if this was the recollection of a half starved, sleepy child.
And the beat goes on...
That sure explains the East Coast Blizzard of 1888...as well as the great Ice Age, when glaciers a mile thick in some spots came as far south as present day northern tier states...
According to NOAA & NASA, however, the satellites (which have no agenda) dispute both of them, as well as, you Mr. Weatherman Forecaster. Neither of them were the warmest on record.
:: Perhaps some could counter with stories of bigger storms prior to 1964 when I was born ::
More proof that socialists consider the “start” of history on their, specific birthday.
Greek Republic? Roman tyranny?
Didn’t happen.
Because...1964
what are you going to believe, our doctored numbers or data from multi-million dollar satellites we put up there to prove global warming. . . .
So how do they explain the dearth of hurricanes to hit the US in the past 10 years?
The last storm that was worst than Jonas was in January 1996. And it was a lot worse than this.
Weather and climate are not the same thing. A “weatherman” knows nothing about climate. Heck, most of them can’t even get the weather right.
Blizzard of 1888.
I have been studying liberals for years and they are getting more extreme and delusional.
Ludicrous. One of the things I loathe most about people who fall for this climate-change idiocy is their idiotic, self-absorbed mindset that they are the first to ever experience ‘weather.’ It’s a crazy, self-serving mindset and perspective that blankets so many issues. That all the various historical and cultural markers somehow began with their own individual entries. There’s something so pathetic and distasteful about it, and it just feeds various degrees of liberalism and relativism.
The hurricane that destroy Galveston in 1900 was pretty extreme.
The Great Blizzard of 1899.
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