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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Dr. Jeff Masters & Weather Extremes |
| 2011-06-26 |
| Masters is not a nut-case. And there really isn't anything we are able to do to 'fix' it. But the weather IS becoming a problem for a lot of the world. Every year extraordinary weather events rock the Earth. Records that have stood centuries are broken. Great floods, droughts, and storms affect millions of people, and truly exceptional weather events unprecedented in human history may occur. But the wild roller-coaster ride of incredible weather events during 2010, in my mind, makes that year the planet's most extraordinary year for extreme weather since reliable global upper-air data began in the late 1940s. Never in my 30 years as a meteorologist have I witnessed a year like 2010--the astonishing number of weather disasters and unprecedented wild swings in Earth's atmospheric circulation were like nothing I've seen. The pace of incredible extreme weather events in the U.S. over the past few months have kept me so busy that I've been unable to write-up a retrospective look at the weather events of 2010. But I've finally managed to finish, so fasten your seat belts for a tour through the top twenty most remarkable weather events of 2010. At the end, I'll reflect on what the wild weather events of 2010 and 2011 imply for our future. Much follows. |
| Posted by:Glenmore |
| #3 Who knew that dem "Pirates' Crabs could get so - wel-l-l - CRABBY??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-06-26 22:44 |
| #2 IMO the "Globalists" + NASA, NWO Perts, etal. must surely recognize that, iff its NOT the Sun, the only other significant thingy would be NON-OIL/GAS "PEAK NATURAL RESOURCES", i.e. US-WORLD MINERAL RESERVES E.G. "RARE-EARTHS" [China = decline]??? As per 1990's = pre,post-911 Asteroids, + "Biotic Oil", etc. LOOKS LIKE AMERICA + AMERIKA WILL HAVE TO ASK, DEPEND ON THE RUSSIANS [again] TO GIVE US AN ANSWER, as per the Current + Future State of the World's Mineral Reserves = "Precious Commodities". ["PIRATES" PRECIOUS = PRECOCIOUS? SEA GODDESS-BABE CALYPSO here]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-06-26 22:43 |
| #1 The usual cherry picking of the data. And in several cases he can't find a record in datasets only going back 30 years. And then, the U.S.--NOAA's Climate Extremes Index (CEI), which looks at the percentage area of the contiguous U.S. experiencing top 10% or bottom 10% monthly maximum and minimum temperatures, monthly drought, and daily precipitation. The Climate Extremes Index rated 1998 as the most extreme year of the past century in the U.S. So the only objective measure he can come up with doesn't show 2010 as an extreme year. But will no doubt impress the anumerate punters. I also checked out the climate extremes index and the trend is dead flat for the last 100 years. 2010 wasn't even in the top 10 years. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2011-06-26 21:34 |