Killer tornadoes should start spinning up for their annual bout of destruction tomorrow, after an unusually pokey start of so-called “preliminary tornadoes”:
“This is the slowest start certainly since 2000. 2010 had a count of 65 through March.”
There were just 35 preliminary tornadoes in March this year.
Via Joe D’Aleo at WeatherBell.
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Mrs. Charm and I were complaining today about how cold this winter has been in Central Texas and how it seems to be continuing with more forecast this week. It could be worse, as this photo off Massachusetts shows:
“The waves captured by photographer Jonathan Nimerfroh are so thick with ice that they’ve drawn comparisons to ‘Slurpees’ and other frozen beverages, but the texture and shape of the wave also suggest a giant, grey tongue, licking the shores of Nantucket.
“Here’s what the photographer had to say about his images: ‘When I pulled up to the beach I could see the horizon just look strange. When I got to the top off the dunes I saw that beginning about 300 yards away from the shoreline the ocean was starting to freeze.
“‘The high temp that day was around 19 degrees. The wind was howling from the southwest which would typically make rough or choppy conditions not so good for surfing, but since the surface of the sea was frozen slush the wind did not change the shape. What resulted was perfect, dreamy, slush waves. Most waves were around 2 feet with some larger sets slushing through around 3 foot or waist high. What an experience to be absolutely freezing on the beach watching these roll in while I mind-surfed them! I wonder if a shaper can make me a special designed slurfboard?
“‘The next day I drove up to see if they melted but beginning that same 300 yards away from shore the water had frozen solid and there were no waves at all. I’ve been asking all the fishermen and surfers I know if they have ever seen such a thing and they have all reported that this is a first, a result of it being the coldest winter we’ve had in 81 years. I guess the people I asked weren’t old enough to remember a colder winter than this!”
Still worried about your carbon footprint and the government’s illusory global warming?
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NOAA and NASA say yes. NASA satellite data says no, the peak was actually in 1998. The agencies are part of you-know-who’s administration. The satellite data isn’t political. Not yet, anyhow. Adds so-called “flat-earther” Dr. Roy Spencer:
“The fortuitous revelation of record warm sea surface temperatures in August, only days before Climate Summit 2014, begs the question — why? Why were SSTs so warm? (Not “Why announce it just before Leonardo DiCaprio’s coronation?”)” The timing is obvious.
The Dictator’s Club (aka the UN), hosting Obozo’s climate summit on Tuesday (which will excuse our soon-to-be record-setting, further economy-killing electricity hikes), appointed the Hollyweird actor as its climate spokesfolk. Isn’t that special? And the federal lying, backing a president who can’t ever seem to tell, much less reveal, the truth, is no surprise. Adds Steve Goddard:
“Contrary to the spectacular ‘hottest August ever’ lies being propagated by NASA GISS and NOAA ahead of Obama’s climate conference – August was the coldest in five years and the second coldest in 10 years, according to far more accurate NASA satellite data.” It was, indeed, an unusually cool summer and a very wet August here in Central Texas.
Quick, one of you Democrat bureaucrats round up a tech to rejigger the sat sensors. The boss ain’t gonna like being contradicted by science.
UPDATE: All those federal lies have produced a following, of course. The usual crowd of Marxists and assorted loons. DiCaprio wasn’t pleased when PJTV asked about his carbon footprint from his multiple private yachts and jets. He scurried away without answering.
Of course. He and Al Bore want the rest of us to do without electricity and cars while their lives stay the same. It therefore should be no surprise that the climate warriors also were as trash-can challenged as any other group of adolescents.
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I was joking to Mrs. Charm the other day about the front page story in the daily on the severity of our drought (thanks to an increased population demanding more water) that whenever they highlight a weather problem, the solution is almost at hand.
Well, maybe not the whole solution, but a good wetting, according to WeatherBell’s Joe D’Aleo:
“This time of year is when rain com[e]s to the high plains as moisture gets drawn northwest upslope. They have a second peak in the fall with the early fall storms fed by the seasonal moisture that come[s] into the desert southwest.”
So, while it may not be a repeat of the Memorial Day floods of 1981, the forecast rain of two inches or more over the next ten days, following by a cooler-than-usual (less evaporation) summer and, thanks to El Nino, a wetter-than-normal fall, our long-awaited drought-buster may be almost at hand.
After all, we got three and half inches of rain in an hour at the rancho about this time last year. So it’s only wise to get ready for a real frog-strangler.
UPDATE: Alas, no frogs were killed in the making of this Memorial Day weekend. We got only 2.5 inches at the rancho—much of it coming on Tuesday— but it was better than none.
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“Stay safe in the central [U.S.]- the next few day[s] will be brutal.”
That’s Joe D’Aleo at Weatherbell, adding to the warnings of regional meteorologists forecasting fourteen hours of below freezing temps for us, starting sometime later this evening. Which we call a hard freeze because we don’t get many of them this far south.
Tonight’s low is forecast to be 23 degrees and Monday night’s just 19 degrees. Hopefully, the air will warm up in between those lows.
Goodbye to the elephant ears in the rancho’s front beds. But they’ll bounce back from the roots in the spring I expect. And as long as the power stays on, we’ll be fine. We could rely on the gas log in the fireplace, if necessary, but we’d rather not.
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Tagged Central Texas, hard freeze, Joe D'Aleo, Weatherbell
We’ve had four severe winters in the past decade in North America and this one is shaping up as a repeat performance. Not that you’d know that from paying attention to the Non-Fox news media or reading the dictator’s club’s annual crock on global warming.
But the good Joe D’Aleo at Weather Bell Analytics has a interesting take on those winters that began in 2002/03: “Most of the media seem to be obsessed with extremes of heat, completely ignoring cold weather extremes, despite these apparently being on the rise and despite the IPCC’s science failing to offer an explanation for them. In fact, the IPCC extreme weather events table projects ‘fewer cold days and frost in future’.”
I remember 2002/03 because we lived in a drafty old shiplap house on a ridgeline in Travis Heights where the windows rattled when the wind blew. And it blew hard that winter. This year, our tenth in the stone-and-siding rancho in a small valley in Northwest Hills, is starting out to be just as frigid and windy. Unusually cold for this time of year, but it was last year and the year before also.
Purely anecdotally, our Central Tejas winters do seem to be getting colder. Used to be November and December were mild with only the occasional cold front passage of a few days. January was our only killer cold month and February was the warmup. I’m getting nostalgic just writing that.
Let’s all hope the future is nothing like Larry Niven’s Fallen Angels. We don’t need a glacier whose leading edge is 400-feet high and moving, well, glacially, through what was once called Missouri.
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“…temperatures have stopped warming in all the data bases going back as far as 1997. All are showing a cooling since 2002 even as CO2 continues to rise.”
So reminds Weather Bell meterologist Joe D’Aleo, as he dissects the Weather Channel’s and NBC’s determination to continue propagandizing global warming in the face of polls showing fewer and fewer Americans believe in it. As well they shouldn’t.
Meanwhile, it’s coming clear that those climate models the “scientist” hoaxers have relied on to forecast future doom for the planet are failing to accurately predict five years into the future, never mind a century.
I still wonder if we aren’t in danger of an imminent Ice Age, re scifi author Larry Niven’s Fallen Angels, now that the Greens he imagined forcing huge reductions in CO2 (bringing on the Glaciers moving south) are actually in power. And their servant Wormtongue is flirting with our economic disaster in his zeal to reduce CO2.
But I’m probably just infected with the gloom-and-doom we’re all been hammered with for the last decade. Pols need distractions to facilitate their ongoing thefts and bribes and this end-of-the-world stuff works nicely.
UPDATE: The hoaxers and their media cronies have the proof! Proof, they tell you. That’s because they’ve manipulated the numbers, cooling the past, so they can keep claiming “this year” is the hottest ever, etc.
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