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ASK A METEOROLOGIST: 'Age of extreme weather' started 20 years ago
Wisconsin Dells Events ^ | Jan 27, 2016 | Jeff Smith

Posted on 01/29/2016 8:06:33 AM PST by gorush

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To: gorush

About 20 years ago began the deluge of news detailing every event everywhere, giving the impression of an upsurge of extreme when it’s really just expanded awareness of normal event variations.


21 posted on 01/29/2016 8:27:42 AM PST by ctdonath2 (History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the week or the timid. - Ike)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
The most severe hurricane hit Galveston, Texas in 1900

The most deadly hurricane hit Galveston in 1900, but it was no where near being the most severe.

Most experts estimate the 1900 storm as a Cat 4 in current terms. Top winds ~ 145 mph.

The problem for Galveston was the lack of warning, low elevation, inability of people to leave the island, and the dead-on worst cases scenario hit that pushed a massive storm surge over the island.

22 posted on 01/29/2016 8:28:26 AM PST by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!)
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To: gorush

So... what is the weather supposed to be like then? What is “perfect weather” and can man control it? Hmmmmmm....


23 posted on 01/29/2016 8:29:00 AM PST by 3boysdad (The very elect.)
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To: greene66

I can’t believe in 2016 we are still dealing with the weather! Can’t someone do SOMETHING!? obama help us!


24 posted on 01/29/2016 8:29:22 AM PST by ConservativeDude
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To: ConservativeDude

it’s those damn Republicans always saying “no” which cause us to still have to deal with the weather.....


25 posted on 01/29/2016 8:29:55 AM PST by ConservativeDude
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To: gorush

How old is the meteorologist? For many people, history is what they have lived.


26 posted on 01/29/2016 8:30:20 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Dennis M.
I have been studying liberals for years and they are getting more extreme and delusional.

Boy... ain't THAT the truth!!

BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) drove many of them insane. Obama got the rest.

27 posted on 01/29/2016 8:30:23 AM PST by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!)
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To: gorush

So, who is your go-to weather guy...Joe Bastardi or Jeff Smith?


28 posted on 01/29/2016 8:32:23 AM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: gorush
Yeah, we never had bad east coast blizzards in the past.

Oops, the worst one of all in recent history was 1888.

Bad hurricanes? Oops, Hazel in the fifties.

Tornadoes?

Tri-state tornado in the twenties. Super outbreak in the seventies.

Heat waves and drought? The Dust Bowl in the thirties. More bad drought in the fifties.

These AGW morons play on ignorance as they call skeptics uninformed dolts.

29 posted on 01/29/2016 8:32:46 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Indeed, the global-warming crowd was going nuts in 2005-2007 after Katrina, Rita, Ike, and such, saying the spate of severe hurricanes was a direct result of ‘climate change’ and that this was going to be a constant of the future. And what do we actually get? Ten years of amazing calm on the hurricane scene.

Anyone that believes these phoney-baloney charletans and their idiotic blather is a fool. It’s just a blind front to promote global socialism.


30 posted on 01/29/2016 8:32:59 AM PST by greene66
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To: Nailbiter

Exactly. I remember being snowed in as a kid in the 70s. In the 80s, we had so much rain the lake between town and my house backed up into other creeks, flooded roadways.

In 88, it rained so much we couldn’t get down roads.

Since then, “weather” has been fairly mild, with a periodic snow or rain event worth mentioning.


31 posted on 01/29/2016 8:33:21 AM PST by ican'tbelieveit
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To: Battle Axe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoolhouse_Blizzard

January, 1888. My father said my grandfather remembered it vividly, a warm, springlike day that turned into a "white hell".

32 posted on 01/29/2016 8:34:30 AM PST by Campion (Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre!)
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To: Battle Axe

(My grandfather would have been about 130 miles south of DeSmet at the time.)


33 posted on 01/29/2016 8:35:23 AM PST by Campion (Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre!)
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To: gorush

Let us also not forget: six foot deep or more snows were the norm when the northeast portion of this country was colonized.
That’s why older buildings in the northeast from around that time have steep rooflines.


34 posted on 01/29/2016 8:35:39 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: gorush
When did the HAARP turn on then?

Dun Dun DUN....

35 posted on 01/29/2016 8:36:21 AM PST by GraceG (The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
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To: Campion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Snow_of_1717

Five foot deep snow there.


36 posted on 01/29/2016 8:38:09 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: gorush

Judging by the geological evidence, they seem to be off by thousands of years.


37 posted on 01/29/2016 8:38:53 AM PST by inpajamas (Texas Akbar!!!!!!!)
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To: gorush
Here's the problem....

No one knows what the "perfect temperature" of the earth should be at any point on the earth and at any point in time.

There's nothing scientific about climate change except the fact that it is constantly changing....and that's pure hindsight.

38 posted on 01/29/2016 8:39:31 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Darksheare

That was right at the tail end of the Maunder Minimum. The 1888 blizzards may have been influenced by the 1883 Krakatoa eruption.


39 posted on 01/29/2016 8:40:30 AM PST by Campion (Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre!)
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To: Campion

Yup.
But, it’s all man made doncha know.
/ snerk.
Gotta love the so called ‘scientists’ pushing the theory as if it were religion.


40 posted on 01/29/2016 8:42:27 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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