Posted on 09/11/2014 8:58:45 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
The odds are just as likely that they will all be wrong because we do not really understand how the climate works.
...and I like Joe Bastardi!
To all you scoffers who think weather can’t be forecast beyond a day or two, the Weather Channel has already begun releasing forecasts for 2050:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65ScX7kNR_g
I'm in the dark blue zone where "incredibly cold" isn't as cold as the Upstate NY winters I went through growing up.
Readying my snowboard, my snowblower, my snowshoes, and shaking my Al Gore snowglobe.
It is one of the paradoxes of all the fear and panic mongering over supposed warming of the climate that life in fact does best in warmer climes. It’s far more likely that “We’re all gonna die!” if the climate turns colder than if it warms on average by a few degrees. Throw in the geologic record showing that we’re probably nearing or at the end of an inter-glacial warm up and the claims of morons like Gore and his idiot sycophants (yes, I mean you Leo) in the entertainment industry become truly albeit infuriatingly laughable.
The local suppliers rationed propane in our part of the country (southern Ohio) last year... 100 gal. was all you could at one time... The whole uncertainty of the situation was very troublesome...
Wow, thank God for glo-bull warming, otherwise it might *really* get cold!
Looking good for Arizona, then.
It will be OK during the winter (unless you ski) but not good in next fire season.
I like the warmer winters we have experienced the last couple of years, but we also had above average snow pack throughout most of the state. This year it looks like we may have a drought. I sure hope that part of the forecast is wrong!
If local old time Appalachian winter predictors are correct we are in for at least 10 measurable snow falls this winter.
My great-great grandmother counted each heavy fogs in August as a measurable snow fall for coming winter. If she is correct 10 measurable snow falls. Her other prognostications were length of orange on wooly worms, the shorter the orange sections on the wooly the worse the winter and so far I am seeing very little orange on the critters. Lastly was her hornets nest test, the high the nest off the ground the worse the winter. Haven’t seen any this summer so no-go on this old timers prognostication method.
I am more inclined to think that with the continued fall off in sunspot activity we are going to get another nasty winter myself.
I’ll tell you how bad it’s going to be this winter...the ice is going to have ice on it...
Nope, we're still in a solar minimum, which makes things cooler, all over, summer or winter.
So just keep the kids at home on days when you know the snow is going to pile up; problem solved. Their learning won’t be damaged by not showing up a day or two.
Sunspots are currently plentiful, although relatively well below average over this and the previous 11 year Solar Cycle.
Whether or not that really will translate into another brutal Winter is debatable, but when the sunspots do disappear for multiple cycles, I will agree that we are in for some harsh winters.
Hey I’m in the green zone, above average woo woo. We haven’t had an 80 degree Christmas in a long time, I looooove Christmas swims.
Even the peaks we've had have been minimal. There were several years in the early 'aughts' when there were few or NO sunspots; the sun was a bare as a baby's bum! NASA, in line with their push for 'Global Warming' kept predicting that the new cycle would be extremely active, but for several years, had to push their predictions out for the next year, because that cycle change just didn't happen. And when it DID happen, it was short, and again, with very FEW sunspots.
Then there is my mother, may she rest in peace.
She was a child of the depression and WWII. Her parents were both country folk that came to the city. She carefully repeated all her father taught her especially “the signs” those would be both the almanac zodiac and the natural plant and animal and weather indicators.
One such was fogs in August mean bad winter.
My interpretation is that cool weather in humid August produces fog. The cooling is normal but somewhat early and will become more pronounced as winter comes.
This August in East Tennessee it was foggy nearly every day.
Look out..... it’s going to be bad
I live in South Jersey and we had so many snow days we were in school until June 24th.
I retired from teaching in June, and so look forward to NOT getting those 4AM phone calls or shoveling snow to get out of my drive way.
Yes, of COURSE. What you say is just common sense. You're not driven by a Commie agenda, that the school system is mainly for child care and not for education at all. The main reason they kept the schools open on that terrible blizzard day was to provide "hot meals to those children who might only have this hot meal that whole day." Well tuff noogies. If you, as a parent, can't manage to heat up a can of soup or otherwise provide a hot meal on a cold day, you are not fit to be a parent. Even a cat will tend to their babies and keep them warm and fed.
So all the teachers, staff, and kids had to endanger their very lives traveling under horrific conditions where I saw school buses slip-sliding away and where people waiting for buses had to stand out for over an hour for each bus. If you had to take 3 different buses to get where you had to go, that meant a 3 hour journey each way, waiting out in the cold, ice, and snow.
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