And speaking of interesting weather ...

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  1. HatterDon

    HatterDon Moderator

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    after getting almost 3 inches of much needed rain on Friday [we're about 2.5 years into a major drought in South Texas], the skies opened up this morning and dumped 9.5 inches of rain between 0300 and 1000 this [Saturday] morning. As near as we can tell, nobody has lost his life, although the flooding is immense.

    The strange thing is that this foot of rain over two days will not increase our local aquifer level enough to restrict water usage. Hopefully, though, it may allow some farmers to use irrigation for at least a week or two.

    What could be causing all the extreme weather over the last few years? Nah, couldn't be that.
     
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    HatterDon, May 25, 2013
  2. BarryWhite

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    That is a lot of rain. I hope everyone remains safe.
     
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    BarryWhite, May 25, 2013
  3. HatterDon

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    Here's some photographs of the results of the storm.
    http://www.weather.com/news/texas-flood ... tory_share


    One shows the water just below the 10' flood marker. Another shows an 8 lane freeway that is completely covered with water. There's either 1, 2, or 3, that died. We got very lucky. If the storm had hit at 3 in the afternoon rather than 3 in the morning, the casualties would have been huge.

    Still a lot of freeway underwater here, but if it doesn't rain anymore, it should be better tomorrow.
     
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    HatterDon, May 26, 2013
  4. pettyfog

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    Well, it IS Climate Change. 'Cuz, like weather, climate changes. Especially due to El Niño / La niña .. but those are weather. and Long term influences on the PDO
    The confluence, however, of the PDO and AMDO which are not always in sync, in the arctic region influences the Jet Stream, thus there is 'weird weather' {for those with short or selective memories,} much like we had in the early seventies. When we were warned there was an ice age coming.

    :banana-linedance:
    But it's not the FIRST time for your area and wont be the last, either. It has nothing much to do with carbon. BTW the OKie dust bowl of the thirties wasnt the first time for drought, there, either.

    Let's put it this way:
    Starting one end of your dining Room Table lay out 10,000 pennies. Take out two. That's just above the MINIMUM CO2 level required for life as we know it on this planet, to exist lower than that, crops fail to propagate, down around 1.5 pennies, the rain forests begin to die back.
    Take out one more penny.. now you have three. Crops including nitrogen fixing legumes begin to thrive. Now we are at 4 pennies out of the 10,000.

    Suddenly it's disaster? Do a search on how much CO2 actual greenhouse operators use, within.
    And no.. we don't live in a bell jar in some lab, we live in a complex ecosystem where the earth has evolved to maintain an equilibrium. Just imagine the howling of the warmists if people were FARMING on Greenland or raising Wine Grapes in England.
    :sad-roulette:
    Oh, wait....
    Warning: That particular smiley is NSFSk.. not safe for schoolkids!
    lol
     
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    pettyfog, Jun 6, 2013
  5. pettyfog

    pettyfog Well-Known Member

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    And it COULD be worse:
    Fake villages will greet President Obama and other G8 world leaders in Fermanagh

    Unfettered Free Market disaster? Or results of induced Crony-Keynsianism? You decide.
    I think it would be better for all of them to see it as it is.
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    Back on Topic:
    Florida is getting hit pretty hard
    and
    Doesnt look good for the East coast and Fla this year,
    WUWT: Joe Bastardi was Correct about Gulf of Mexico Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies
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    Moar ADDID

    Back off topic:
    FoxNews: Taco Licker Fired
    - cuz I couldn't post that on FB
    :cool:
     
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    pettyfog, Jun 6, 2013
  6. HatterDon

    HatterDon Moderator

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    well, you still can't tell the difference between weather and climate, but you haven't lost your ability to make sly references that most everyone on here can't figure out.

    Good to have you back, Jim. Don't stay away so long.
     
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    HatterDon, Jun 6, 2013
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