Weather, or Not category archive
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
Get ready for Exodus 2.0.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
Storm clouds on the horizon . . . .
The Climates They are a-Changing 0
It’s February.
I’m running the air conditioning to dehumidify the joint.
Don’t you dare tell me that it’s a fluke of weather and not somehow related to climate.
Hey! Rubio! 0
After I went for a bike ride wearing gym shorts and a light sweatshirt yesterday, I drove to the recycling center with my windows down.
In February.
Not in SoCal.
And it’s not just one fluke of a day. It’s a pattern.
Even granting that weather is not climate, the two are intimately intertwined.
Stray Thought 0
The buffoons on the Weather Channel seem perpetually surprised that, in a snowstorm, snow that falls from the sky lands on the ground.
“What’s Christmas without Air Conditioning?” 0
That was my brother’s reply when I texted him that it was so hot and humid here that I had turned on the A/C.
Meanwhile, the NOAA tells me that the temperature in Lost Wages, Nevada, is 50 Fahrenheits.
Occluded Front 0
I’ve been for several bicycle rides wearing gym shorts and a tee shirt in the last week. When I was growing up in these parts about 40 miles north of here, I’d have been wearing hooded parkas and fur-lined gloves while waiting for the school bus by this time of year.
Don’t try to tell me that there isn’t something strange going on.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Glenn “Hurricane” Schwartz, TV weatherperson, marvels at the hate mail directed towards persons who discuss without dismissing the existence of climate change.
The hatred and vitriol takes one aback.
Dealing with Climate Change 0
Reg Henry considers a new strategy for coping.
What a bore! I don’t want to hear any climate change doom from reality-respecting scientific know-it-alls. I want to enjoy the luxury of blissful denial in the face of the facts. In short, I want to become a conservative.
More at the link.
Chris-Crossed 0
Dick Polman catalogs Chris Christie’s climate change contortions.
Grab a frosty beverage of your choice and enjoy the show.
Hypercane 0
The resident curmudgeon at my local rag gets one right. Weather channels and websites (whether they have the word “weather” in their name or not) pine for disaster, as their coverage of the recent storm indicated. No one pays attention to them otherwise.
By mid-morning Thursday, though, the forecasting mood began to change. I turned on The Weather Channel and was greeted by long faces. Anchors there and elsewhere were barely able to disguise their disappointment at the new projection for the storm:
Joaquin was predicted to take his fury out to sea.
Water, Water, Everywhere . . . . 0
My local rag has pictures.
When I emptied my rain gauge this afternoon, we had gotten about 7 1/2 inches in two and a half days, and it’s raining again.
It’s not affecting us directly. We’re at about 25 feet above sea level and we don’t try to drive through ponds. We went out this afternoon and did not see anything like what the pictures show on our drive to the local drug store.
My brother has not gotten nearly so much rain in Virginia’s Northern Neck, but he has high tides, as witnessed by this picture he sent me of his dock about two hours before high tide this afternoon. I haven’t heard whether high tide floated his boat.
Addendum:
Another inch over night, but the skies seem to be clearing.