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Title: Sometimes, like right now in the Western U.S., it�s too hot for airplanes to fly. Here�s why.
Category: Weather
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2018-07-30 05:54:19
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[BeaverFever]

Or as Fiddle calls it, “nice weather”

[BartSimpson]

I just call it "summer".

[rickc]

The link said that I had to pay a dollar to keep reading. I did see 90 degrees F mentioned in what little I could read. I pray for 90. My low temps for the day have been averaging 93 lately. 90 is a walk in the park compared to 113. Death valley hit 127 the other day.

[N_Fiddledog]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

Or as Fiddle calls it, “nice weather”

Ever since I can remember some place somewhere has been setting a heat record in the summer.

But now it's...

OMG! Global Warming. We're All Gonna Die!!!

What's Hilarious though is lately areas have been setting cold and snowy records in the winter. Doesn't matter.

Then it's...

OMG, Global Warming is making it cold now. We're All Gonna Die!!!







I'm not joking. Get Doc to tell you how global warming is creating record cold winters. He has studies.

[CharlesAnthony]

$1:

The science behind it is simple: As air warms up, it expands, becoming less dense and less supportive of an airplane moving through it.

Truth in plane site.

[DrCaleb]

How do you know it's the truth?

[N_Fiddledog]

Plane versus plain = obvious joke.

But here's a serious one. Why are we pretending to care about such spin on a minor worry like heat flight delay when the guys running the 'control-your-fuel-usage-and-save-the-climate' show obviously don't.

There are celebrity climate nags burning jet fuel flying about on global tours in private jets, climate conferences in exotic locales pretending to be about decarbonising the world while driving up a carbon footprint that would run a small city for a year.

And now there's 'Climate Barbie's' latest travesty in hypocrisy.



Warmageddon is a scam. Climate Barbie knows it. Why don't some of us?

[CharlesAnthony]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

Why are we pretending to care about such spin on a minor worry like heat flight delay when the guys running the 'control-your-fuel-usage-and-save-the-climate' show obviously don't.

--- because there is a shit-load of money to be made by grifting off of the gullible. The spin-offs are endless.

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

Why don't some of us?

People are crazy.
Well-meaning religious folk tend to go nuts at the altar, light candles, repeat the same old thing over and over again.
Evil demons need to wear a human costume. They have lots of LookAtMe!IAmSoAltruistic fakes from which to choose and the psychosis of glow-bull climb-it war-mongering changeology happens to be 1 of them.

[Freakinoldguy]

So if this heatwave is global warming what the hell was this record setting cold?


[quote]JESSE FERRELL
The winter that wouldn't end: cold continues, sets records
By Jesse Ferrell, AccuWeather meteorologist
4/10/2018, 12:40:27 PM
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UPDATE Tuesday 4/10/2018: We got snow again today in State College, PA. The irony is that flowers bloomed a month earlier in 2012 so I had trouble taking that flowers-with-snow photo this year (this photo was taken next to AccuWeather's warm building where flowers have started to bloom).

Flowers and Snow (State College, 4/10/18)

Here's a comparison of a spot in State College from three weeks earlier in 2012:

Spring 2012 vs. 2018 Comparison

We've only had an above-normal high temperature on three days since March 1st. Our March & April (so far) high temperatures have been 10-15 degrees below those in January & February.

State College 2018 Temperatures

That's about to change (for April anyway) when we spike into the 70s on Friday. However, it won't last, as the 6-10 day outlook shows temperatures below normal for much of the nation.


6-10 Day Forecast Week of 4/8
UPDATE Monday 4/9/2018: Up to 6 inches of snow has fallen today in West Virginia, with an inch or more as far south as Tennessee and North Carolina.,

ORIGINAL BLOG Sunday 4/8/2018:

If you haven't heard, this is the winter that won't end in the northern and eastern halves of the country. As we go into mid-April, much of the nation is still contending with record cold temperatures and snow. Even "The Onion" is thinking what we all are:[/quot

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news

I'm sorry folks but at this point in time both these events are still just "weather" no matter what people claim.

[DrCaleb]

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

I'm sorry folks but at this point in time both these events are still just "weather" no matter what people claim.

In case you haven't been following along, we've been saying that for years. Decades, even. Just like you can't tell how a baseball player's season will be from 2 weeks of play, we can't tell if these things are climate related or just random anomalies with just a few years of data.

But when you get months, and years, and decades of above average weather - then it's 'climate'. And these events are becoming more common, leading us from 'weather events' to a changing 'climate'.

More frequent and stronger hurricanes, earlier hurricane season, unstable jet stream . . . these are all things we see recently. But they can't be attributed to a changing climate without longer study and more data points.

As I always say, the problem is that projections are by the time we get that many data points, the weather will have changed where we can't change it back without some pretty high costs and a big about face in the way we live, if it can be changed back at all. Starting 20 years ago, it would have been cheaper than it will be in another 20 years. Sort of a climate based 'compound interest'.

[uwish]

but that isn't what we see, hurricanes are fewer than before and there is no evidence the jet stream is 'unstable'

[DrCaleb]

uwish uwish:

but that isn't what we see, hurricanes are fewer than before and there is no evidence the jet stream is 'unstable'

'Unstable' may have been the wrong word. 'Unusual' fits better, as it has been quite stable where it hasn't been before.

$1:

This heatwave across much of the northern hemisphere could continue for weeks, and possibly even months. And accelerated warming in the Arctic compared to the rest of the planet could be a key contributor.

The heatwaves have killed dozens in Japan and Korea, triggered wildfires in California and Sweden, and led to prolonged dry weather in the UK and across northern Europe, raising temperatures beyond 30°C in Scandinavian sectors of the Arctic Circle. In Greece, the deadliest wildfires in more than a decade have claimed at least 74 lives.

“It could persist for weeks, potentially for months,” a spokesperson for the UK Meteorological Office told New Scientist.

The outlook was echoed by the German Weather Service, DWD, which warned this week of “a continuation of the drought situation and above-normal temperatures for at least the next two weeks for Northern Europe, from Ireland to the Baltic States and southern Scandinavia”.

. . .

One reason is that the jet stream—a fast-flowing river of air snaking continually round the northern hemisphere at altitudes of around 6 kilometres—has stalled over Europe since May, and could continue to do so, trapping regions of high pressure that are cloudless, windless and extremely hot.

“It’s been a key player in the astounding heatwaves across the UK and Scandinavia this summer,” says Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University in New Jersey.

She says evidence is mounting that accelerated warming of the Arctic is a major reason why the jet stream keeps getting stalled. The stream is driven by collisions between cold air descending southward from the Arctic and warm air pushing northward from the equator.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 ... emisphere/

$1:

Wagstaffe said Harvey dropped as much rain as it did in Texas because it stalled in place, blocked by a high-pressure system in the western U.S. (which has brought heat to Western Canada) and a low-pressure system to the east (which has brought stormy weather to southern Ontario).

"These two systems were blocked in place, not allowing Harvey to move northward, and recent studies show these blocking patterns are a direct result of a warming climate.

"The jet stream isn't as strong, it meanders more, it gets stuck in place. That's something we're worried about when it comes to climate change, these stalled-out systems."

Another connection to climate change, Wagstaffe said, is that a warmer atmosphere can generally hold more moisture than a cooler one.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/harvey-hu ... -1.4269399

$1:

The 2017 North Atlantic hurricane season had 17 named storms, 10 hurricanes, and six major hurricanes. This is well above the 1981-2010 average of 12.1 named storms, 6.4 hurricanes, and 2.7 major hurricanes. The number of named storms ranked as the ninth most on record, the number of hurricanes ranked as the eighth most, and the number of major hurricanes ranked as the third most. The lack of El Nino conditions in the equatorial Pacific, with La Nina conditions developing near the end of the season, likely helped to boost the seasonal numbers.

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/tropical-cyclones/201713

[Thanos]

It's fucked when they have to worry about forest fires in places like Scotland. But whatever. Soros. Soros! SOROS!

[DrCaleb]

I can't wait to grow citrus trees!