Posted on 01/30/2019 10:38:49 AM PST by MplsSteve
In case you were interested in current temps in the upper Midwest, here are a few to consider...
Pembina ND (on the Canadian border) -25 air temp/-25 wind chill
Minneapolis MN -18 air temp/-38 wind chill
Sioux Falls SD -12 air temp/-27 wind chill
Mason City IA -19 air temp/-44 wind chill
Solon Springs WI (northwest WI) -17 air temp/-32 wind chill
Wind chill is mostly hype.
Perform an experiment under these conditions: ambient temp 34, wind chill 28. Set a glass of water out there. Hint: it won’t freeze.
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Perform this experiment.....Work outside for 40 years and then tell me wind chill is hype.
For those of us who are outside dogs it matters a lot.
It took 45 minutes to warm up the truck this morning. -27 all the way in to work. (Minneapolis)
Things are looking up though it’s warmed to -19
It was 29 below when I dropped the wife off at the bus stop in Minneapolis this morning.
It is supposed to be 42 above and raining this weekend.
It causes numerous wardrobe decisions.
Windchill alerts are based on damage to exposed skin. That’s not hype, although it’s misunderstood. In northern climes, there are less cloudy days, so sunburn combined with windchill is very real on cheeks, ears, and nose. Cover up!
Tonight is supposedly going to see -30.
“This is climate change in the midwest, and I suspect what it is, is quite possibly the opening shots on the New Little Ice Age. “
The guy who invented the whole Climate Science discipline back in the 1960s was Hubert Lamb, over at the University of East Anglia in England.
He believed that we were headed for another ice age. All the magazine covers around 1970 predicting a coming ice age were from his work.
Hubert Lamb lived until 1997 and from what I’ve seen he never wavered from his opinion that an ice age was the threat. He conceded that there could be a warming period first, but he was never one of the ‘Anthropogenic’ Global Warming alarmists.
Lamb became intrigued with climate change while trying to figure out what could have caused the Medieval Warming Period and the following Little Ice Age. There still doesn’t appear to be any consensus on what caused the warming period.
40 years minutes
Our balmy wind chill of -13 tonight will leave the average clueless nitwit half dead by then.
Rare day that Des Moines matches Sioux Falls; -12 and -33 wind chill. Des Moines averages around freezing, so they count on melting for snow removal. Big mistake a lot of years!
Just north of Pittsburgh here and its 8 degree’s minus the windchill. Not sure what the “real feel” is and I’m not interested in finding out.
And, after 8 years in West Texas, experience tells me that just about every body you see today will have a bubble coat on.
AMIRYT?
-3 here in Omaha heading to a high of +2. Looks like there is a band of light snow moving in according to the radar. It’s winter in Nebraska. It’s cold, meh. Sunday is supposed to be 55 or better so this is short lived.
In 1983-84 the temperature got above 0 degrees once in a 22 day stretch in the small town where I went to college. It snowed everyday for almost a month and the windchills during that 22 day time frame were typically in the -20 to -50 range. That there was some winter.
Not me. I didn’t even wear a jacket today.
“But you are living in a Red Fascist dictatorship, and we are not.”
We prefer to think of it as a La Raza/3rd World People’s Democratic Republic, thank you very much.
All hail President for Life Kamala Harris of Jamaica, Ceylon, and the USA, our 2020 gift to the country. Sort of.
Being North of you by 150 miles... I went out on errands this morning when it was minus 63.
Now it’s a balmy minus 32 @ 1:16 pm!
A somewhat distinguished university prof of mine back in the late 1970s was almost unhinged by the thought of a new ice age being upon us, and he insisted it was caused by... "air pollution." One of the regional rags interviewed him about 20 years later and he waxed apocalyptic about global warming, caused by... "air pollution."
I think he'd be in his 80's now, and I have a mild curiosity about whether he is worried about global heating or global cooling, but I am pretty certain what he'd blame for either contingency.
That is a different thing. This only goes back maybe one decade and is directly related to sunspots and real historical correlations. The East Anglia crap was not based on much of anything except hoped for public gullibility. East Anglia did not refer to a little ice age but to a speculated major millennia long phenomenon. Look up the Little Ice Age and the Maunder Minimum. You will see that history has seen an oscillation of sorts between warm periods and cold periods in at least the northern hemisphere. These have been documented since sunspots began to be observed and commented on. The correlation is direct.
There is some speculation that the French Revolution was attributable to the last Little Ice Age because of cold climate caused famine in Europe. The poor really did not have enough to eat.
Coastal Oregon, 48 and sunny. I noticed some plum buds are starting to open. King Alfred’s in bloom.
The old AF refrain: “Why not Minot? Freezin’s the reason.”
It would if you were in Denver.One would think that a "Colorado Tanker" would know that! ;-)
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