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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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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.
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.
So... what is the weather supposed to be like then? What is “perfect weather” and can man control it? Hmmmmmm....
I can’t believe in 2016 we are still dealing with the weather! Can’t someone do SOMETHING!? obama help us!
it’s those damn Republicans always saying “no” which cause us to still have to deal with the weather.....
How old is the meteorologist? For many people, history is what they have lived.
Boy... ain't THAT the truth!!
BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) drove many of them insane. Obama got the rest.
So, who is your go-to weather guy...Joe Bastardi or Jeff Smith?
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.
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.
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.
January, 1888. My father said my grandfather remembered it vividly, a warm, springlike day that turned into a "white hell".
(My grandfather would have been about 130 miles south of DeSmet at the time.)
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.
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Judging by the geological evidence, they seem to be off by thousands of years.
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.
That was right at the tail end of the Maunder Minimum. The 1888 blizzards may have been influenced by the 1883 Krakatoa eruption.
Yup.
But, it’s all man made doncha know.
/ snerk.
Gotta love the so called ‘scientists’ pushing the theory as if it were religion.
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