Produced by heat, and perhaps accelerated by climate change, a broad, straight line and potentially-dangerous thunderstorm system could spend time in Wisconsin tonight:
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Meteorologists are tracking a so-called derecho weather pattern in the Midwest that could spawn severe windstorms in several major metropolitan areas, with gusts as strong as 100 mph.
The National Weather Service says derechoes occur once or twice a year in the central U.S. with winds of at least 75 mph. The storms maintain their intensity for hours as they sweep across vast distances, and can trigger tornadoes and large hail.
Meteorologists say the windstorms could hit from South Dakota to Pennsylvania over the next two days, including the Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and Pittsburgh metro areas.
The East Coast got smashed by one
last summer.
Produced by heat, having nothing to do with climate change, a storm might, possibly, happen. Wow! I need a job where I can be wrong more than half the time an not get my ass fired!
ReplyDelete^well lets hope that job has absolutely nothing to do with grammar.
ReplyDeleteWhy, Ronnypoo, you're doing just fine unemployed.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, Ron. Heat has nothing to do with climate change.
ReplyDeleteMeteorologist speaking... without even getting into climate change, derechos are not at all uncommon. I'm thinking the writer of the piece garbled something the NWS said.
ReplyDeleteWhen it gets warmer, climate change.
ReplyDeleteWhen it gets colder, climate change.
When it rains more, climate change.
When it rains less, climate change.
When it gets windy, climate change.
When it stays calm, climate change.
Heavy snow, climate change.
No snow, climate change.
The only winning move is not to play - Joshua, 1983.
How about a nice game of chess?
Climate change is all about the substitution of extremes for norms, or becoming the new norm.
ReplyDeleteThe only winning move is not to play
ReplyDeleteGood advice, that.
RD, whenever something involves big words and long sentences, we can always count on you to pretend to feign stupidity.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, thanks to the Greenhouse Effect, Wisconsin no longer gets the farmer's rains the state is accustomed to. Instead we're seeing a brutal cycle of drought and deluge. We're losing the shipping capacity of the Great lakes. And the Mississippi. Our lakes are filling with organisms once known only in Florida. And storms that were once rare are no longer so rare.
I know, that's more detail than your feeble mind can handle. So clearly since the Greenhouse Effect can't be explained to a 4 year old, it must be nonsense.
... and we are just guessing that these perceived extremes are caused by man, or that they even are extremes at all?
ReplyDeleteIn one sentence you say that I feign stupidity, yet in the last sentence, you claim I am feeble minded.
Like most of your comments on this issue, this also makes little sense.
Just try to figure out your theory and then do your best to stick to it.
"... and we are just guessing that these perceived extremes are caused by man, or that they even are extremes at all?"
ReplyDeleteThis is not guesswork. It's been known that in a greenhouse effect driven atmosphere, more heat circulation is driven by evaporation and reprecipitation of water from the surface to higher in the atmosphere. Ergo, more intense rain events, coupled with more dry spells. This has been known for several decades now.
And it's been studied intensely because engineers like to have reliable estimates of where the 100 year flood line is before they build anything.
And that is why whern it rains more (floods), we can attribute it to climate change, and when it rains less (drought), we can attribute iot to climate change, and when it affects a major source of Wisconsin's wealth, we talk about more than you would like.
So when you post moronic things like your comment above, pretending not to understand the issue here, we have to wonder whether you are feigning stupidity or whether you really are stupid.
It is guesswork. You can't predict the weather for next weekend, yet you think you can tell us the temperatures 10, 25 or 50 years out.
ReplyDeleteNote: We are at the lowest carbon emissions in the last 20 years and Earth has been getting warmer since we were covered by a glacier.
No feigning stupid on your part, that's for sure.
"It is guesswork. "
ReplyDeleteNo, it is science. Over 20 ears ago they predicted precisely this: a switch from a good climate for farming in the Midwest, to one where drought punctuated by deluge would prevail. And now it's happening.
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Note: We are at the lowest carbon emissions in the last 20 years"
Attempt at a diversion. Kindly stop. You're only embarassing yourself.
"and Earth has been getting warmer since we were covered by a glacier.
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The earth would be heading towards the next ice age right now if it weren't for the greenhouse effect.
That is where we are in the Milankovich cycle.
No, it is science. Over 20 ears ago they predicted precisely this: a switch from a good climate for farming in the Midwest, to one where drought punctuated by deluge would prevail. And now it's happening.
ReplyDeleteSorry, over 20 years ago they were predicting global cooling and the pending ice age. Then it was global warming. Now it is climate change.
Furthermore, if running a gas engine is helping to hold off a looming ice age, I'm going home to run my lawn tractor again today.
Finally, you make the point yourself that earth goes into and out of warming/cooling cycles by itself. Nobody was here during the ice age nor the warming period that followed.
Again, try to stick to one theory, you'll make more sense too those who actually try to follow you garbage.
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ReplyDeleteSorry, over 20 years ago they were predicting global cooling and the pending ice age. "
20 years ago was 1993. Long before that was 1975. But even in 1975, the only "they" who were talking abotu global cooling were two scientists and one reporter. Nobody else.
Not that you care, as you're a casual BSer, and you don't care if what you say is true or false.
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Furthermore, if running a gas engine is helping to hold off a looming ice age, I'm going home to run my lawn tractor again today."
And that shows exactly what kind of person you are. You have no idea what it takes to provide you with the comfort you are accustomed to; you're just adamant on it never changing. In the meantime, the economic base whihc with WI keeps you comfortable is eroding all around you.
You're like a trust funded ski bum who insists on withdrawing from the principal of Daddy's account when the dividends get low.