Posted on 07/23/2019 11:28:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: I don’t know how many of you people noticed this, but this is another great opportunity to illustrate how the weather has become so corrupt politicized in order to push this silly man-made global warming narrative.
This is Tuesday. On Sunday, we started getting warnings here in south Florida. “Major tropical depression developing off the coast of Florida.” I started getting alerts on my phone from all of my weather apps. I said, “What the hell is this?” So I went and looked at it. And sure enough, it was a thunderstorm with 30-mile-an-hour winds. And the National Weather Service had plotted it as a developing tropical system.
It had an L with a circle around it. You know what that means? Low-pressure area. There were thunderstorms that went to the Midwest yesterday that were worse than what we faced off the coast of Florida the past two days. It was an absolute joke!
So last night the cone for this thing had this tropical storm going right by my house. I mean, skirting my beach, upsetting the turtles and anything that might have been out there. So I made it a point to look. There was enough rain to fill a thimble. There was about a 10-minute lightning storm. It was never even completely fully overcast.
I went to the radar. I went to the cloud satellite. There was nothing there. It was a passing — it wasn’t even a solid block of green on the radar, and green is the lightest rain. When you get into the yellows and reds, that’s when it gets heavy. There wasn’t any red. There wasn’t any yellow. It was just green, and it was spotty. There was no tropical depression. There was no developing tropical depression.
Now, there might have been a low-pressure area, and in any low-pressure area, the wind circulation is the same direction as in a hurricane. A hurricane is just a massive low-pressure area. They want to be able to say that there were all of these numbers of systems this year, these numbers of tropical depressions, tropical storms, hurricanes, because the numbers add up, and then they can more easily claim man-made climate change is responsible.
The National Hurricane Center even had a cone graphic track map for this thunderstorm. And by now, it was going to be “threatening,” quote, unquote, the Georgia, South Carolina coast. Well, I looked at it today, and it’s died. They’ve got an X off the coast of Cape Canaveral. They’ve got an X in a white circle and 11 a.m. Tuesday. They’re putting a date and a marker on something that isn’t!
It’s an X. You look here for X current information, X, what does X mean? Can’t find what X means. What’s the wind? Maximum sustained winds 35 miles an hour. That’s what the winds were at the golf tournament in Ireland on Sunday. We got a tropical storm — they didn’t issue official warnings, but the Drive-By Media people went nuts with this.
Folks, I’m telling you, I went out there and looked at it last night. It was zooing right by the house. It skirted the ocean, this forecast map. There weren’t any waves. There was nothing out there. The lightning was way offshore. It was a great lightning show for 10 minutes, but it was never even fully overcast. And I remember I had to get the dogs out. You don’t want to take the dogs out when it’s raining. I take ’em out at 11 o’clock, so I looked at this thing, “Okay, I’m gonna get them out there at 10:45.” The rain never even happened, nothing happened.
Now, I don’t think a whole lot of people were revved up for it anyway. I don’t think that the efforts here to promote this thing got to the point where there were mad dashes on grocery stores picking up all the bottled water and all the batteries, you know, people hoarding things, the things that usually happen, because this thing was actually undersold.
I think they just created a nothing out of a thunderstorm system that was over the ocean so they can add it as a stat so they can say that we’ve had two tropical storms to date or three, because the more, the better, the more, the easier it is to say that the man-made climate change circumstances are creating more of these storms. But they have to manufacture the storm.
This was a joke. I’m gonna hold this up. We coulda shot a screenshot of this baby. No, no, I don’t know where — I can’t zoom in. I don’t have the zoom control in here. I wasn’t thinking. I should have taken a screenshot of this ’cause it’s funny, this little X off the coast of Cape Canaveral.
Next, the criminal left will politicize the rising of the sun. Man-made....
His basic overall point of this story was to show that by hyping this squall shower, it now gets added to the weather events statistics for 2019. Stat-padding.
These weather forecasters are practically orgasmic when talking about any storm. It’s like watching the national enquirer in action.
Why do they insist on crying wolf at every opportunity and try to scare the uninformed. Are they just trying to get us to stay tuned in after this commercial break?
Has to be. They don't believe in God!
Speaking of 30 MPH winds...
There is a company advertising flag poles on Facebook
Their ad looked interesting so I inquired if they could standup to the winds we have here on the plains.
The response was that if winds reach or exceed 30 MPH then I shouldn’t fly the flag as it may damage the pole.
30 MPH is a breeze out here. Besides, my flag is lighted and I fly my flag 24 hours a day in all weather and my flag pole is secured to a 15 foot building.
I wouldn’t buy anything from someone that advertises on Facebook
Surprising that Herr Honecker did not have the Sun arrested for setting.
“Screw you, I’m in the West “.
That’s because Utah blows and Nebraska sucks... which explains why Wyoming has the worst winds! ;p
The few times I was in Wyoming it was very pleasant!
Beautiful country, good people!
Rush: On weather girls with big bosums.
I gotta tell you when I first noticed this. A weather girl was standing on the east coast facing west and the first state you saw was Missouri.....
Yanet Garcia.
Suddenly here in Colorado, every time we have a beautiful day, there is an ‘Ozone Action Day’ alert on the weather app, suggesting sensitive types stay indoors and that we all reduce driving. WTH? I suspect it’s because beautiful days have to be made into sinister events that still harbor the threat of “climate change” or whatever the hell they’re calling it this month. God forbid we should enjoy the weather! We should all huddle inside and cry about it instead because we’re doomed, dontcha know?
That is a great example of the “Zooming Butt!”
30 degrees more and it is a “shelf butt!”
Rest your beer on that and get slapped, for sure.
(30 years from now and it will look very different.)
It's no different than the weather service naming winter "snowstorms."
It's frickin' weather people...it snows in the winter. In the summer, the midwest gets thunderstorms and occasional tornadoes, just as we've had for hundreds or thousands of years. Also in the summer, low-pressure systems that originate in the tropics sometimes turn into larger and powerful hurricanes. Just as they have for hundreds and thousands of years, those hurricanes make landfall in the United States.
In the past hundred years (due in part to the capitalist economic system we practice in the United States), many people desire to live near the ocean. Most of the time, the climate near the oceans is beautiful--sleepy little seaside towns or larger fishing, boating or beach towns are very desirable.
Naturally, many people want to live near the oceans. If they can't live directly on the ocean, they want to live near it. This has led to lots of residential and commercial development. It's led to higher populations near the water.
Unfortunately, when the same hurricanes hit those areas, the damage is much greater. More lives are potentially at risk. More property can be damaged. Re-building after a large storm can incur larger costs.
All of this additional risk to life and costs to property are being used as a data point by the climate change crowd. It's a bait-and-switch, and they're comparing apples and oranges.
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