Posted on 01/29/2016 8:06:33 AM PST by gorush
After last weekendâs East Coast blizzard, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said âweâre in an age of extreme weather.â Iâve 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.
Iâll add to de Blasioâs comment that not only do I think weâre in an age of extreme weather, but I think that âageâ started more than 20 years ago when Hurricane Andrew hit south Florida in 1992, followed by the âstorm of the centuryâ 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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He was 12 in the mid ‘70s, so 53ish. So ya, definitely old enough to have seen all of earths weather patterns through history...
They've already got the 2016 hottest year on record stories edited
Meteorologists refer to that as “The Children’s Blizzard”.
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The Superstorm of March 1993 pretty much outdid anything Jonas did.
Isn’t a meteorologist kinda like a chiropractor? You know, an Alan Harper type?
Regarding the "warmest year on record" claims, here is a link describing the nature of the instruments gathering the data. These revelations will only be surprising to a weather-reader who is too frightened to disagree with popular hysteria. But considering "records" go back only a hundred, plus years - and accurate ones only about twenty, to be impressed by new claims about trends within the last 20 years regarding an ever evolving environment that dates back several billion years is the height of intellect entertained by shiny trinkets rather than meaningful information.
I live right in the middle of the quad cities...equidistant from Hillsboro, Kendall, Union Center and Elroy. You must not be too far away.
I live in Holmen. I grew up in La Crosse and lived there for about fifty years.
Ah yes...I’ve been to your community pool on numerous occasions in my pre-retirement service guy roll.
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