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The extra-tropical storm is still impacting areas of Alaska.
Ain't it foggy outside
All the planes have been grounded
Ain't the fire inside?
Let's all go stand around it
Funny, I've been there
And you've been here
And we ain't had no time to drink that beer
'Cause I understand you've been running from the man
That goes by the name of the Sandman
He flies the sky like an eagle in the eye
Of a hurricane that's abandoned
Ain't the years gone by fast
I suppose you have missed them
Oh, I almost forgot to ask
Did you hear of my enlistment?
Funny, I've been there
And you've been here
And we ain't had no time to drink that beer
'Cause I understand you've been running from the man
That goes by the name of the Sandman
He flies the sky like an eagle in the eye
Of a hurricane that's abandoned
I understand you've been running from the man
That goes by the name of the Sandman
He flies the sky like an eagle in the eye
Of a hurricane that's abandoned
I understand you've been running from the man
That goes by the name of the Sandman
He flies the sky like an eagle in the eye
Of a hurricane that's abandoned
I understand you've been running from the man
That goes by the name of the Sandman
He flies the sky like an eagle in the eye
Of a hurricane that's abandoned
“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the differance”
― Mark Twain
I'm not...
TANYA MUZUMDAR | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2011
Dr. Jeff Masters, co-founder and director of meteorology at Weather Underground, has built a site that wraps his mind around the tragicomedy of whatever the atmosphere throws at us. Masters co-founded the Internet's first weather site back in 1995, and today Wunderground.com is visited by 17 million people worldwide (13 million in the U.S.) each month, ranking second only to Weather.com in U.S. web traffic. It's the 77th-most visited site in the U.S., according to Quantcast, and depending on turns of the weather, has been ranked as high as 52nd, Masters says.
if it didn't change once in a while."
-Kin Hubbard
Don't know who that is, but it is nonsense. It is not speaking to Radin's numbers. Lookit the numbers. Some twirp pissing in the wind about them is irrelevant. Duh.
Robert Todd Carroll, Ph.D. (born 1945), is an American writer and academic. Carroll has written several books and skeptical essays but achieved notability by publishing the Skeptic's Dictionary online in 1994.
EDIT: For the sake of completeness...
Dean Radin (born February 29, 1952) is a researcher and author in the field of parapsychology. He has been Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), in Petaluma, California, USA, since 2001, and is on the Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Psychology at Sonoma State University, on the Distinguished Consulting Faculty at Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, and former President of the Parapsychological Association.
By Chris Francescani
NEW YORK | Fri Nov 23, 2012 8:42pm EST
(Reuters) - Superstorm Sandy caused at least $29.4 billion in overall damage in New Jersey, according to a preliminary analysis released by Governor Chris Christie's office Friday.
Details here.
: )
Lol, no, not that I know of, just a coincidence.
It never ceases to amaze me how people on this blog can argue endlessly about GW, for which there actually is some decent science, and then accept uncritically certain pseudo-scientific claptrap such as PSY, for which there is little, if any, credible scientific evidence.
BTW, back to post 49... My glasses are very thick, my lips are very thin, and my pocket protector and sliderule collection is in excellent condition, thank you for asking. ;)
Oh. And it's a good day when I get to quote from the Bible...
Matthew 23.24: You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel!
Told you I was bored silly. ;)
Yes, I took Radin's work to the next level and have attained pure truth and the godhead too.(turns out Buhdda was right). I have a card to donate my essence(which is very much like fog but not severe) to Tulane Medical school.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JUAN PR
1012 PM AST FRI NOV 23 2012
.SYNOPSIS...BROAD TROF PATTERN WILL REMAIN IN PLACE THROUGH SAT
WITH FLAT RIDGE EXPECTED TO BUILD SUN NIGHT. FRONT STRETCHING NE
TO SW INTO THE NRN DOM REP WILL BECOME STATIONARY NW OF AGUADILLA
SAT THEN DISSIPATE MON.
&&
.DISCUSSION...LIGHT NRLY FLOW WILL RESULT IN A STRATUS DECK NORTH
OF THE CORDILLERA WITH AREAS OF LIGHT RAIN OR DRIZZLE OVERNIGHT.
STRATUS WILL BEGIN TO MIX OUT LATE IN THE MORNING WITH CONVECTION
FIRING AGAIN OVR THE CORDILLERA. STEERING FLOW WILL BE VERY WEAK
WITH A SLIGHT NORTHWARD DRIFT EXPECTED. THIS PATTERN WILL REPEAT
ITSELF AGAIN SAT NIGHT AND SUN. HEIGHTS BEGIN TO RISE QUICKLY SUN
NIGHT WITH FRONT FCST TO DISSIPATE. H85 DEWPOINT DEPRESSIONS ARE
FCST TO BECOME QUITE LARGE SUN NIGHT AND MON AND DOUBT THAT ANY
CONVECTION WILL DEVELOP. HIGH PRES BUILDING TO THE NORTH WILL
TIGHTEN THE PRES GRADIENT MON-TUE WHICH SHOULD ALSO INHIBIT SEA
BREEZE CYCLE.
REST OF NEXT WEEK WILL BE DOMINATED BY STRONG HIGH PRES TO THE
NORTH WITH BREEZY CONDITIONS AND DEEP LAYER OF DRY AIR. TURNING
COOLER NEXT THU AS HEIGHTS ALOFT AND LOW LEVEL THICKNESSES DROP
AS RIDGE GETS SHUNTED SWD AND POLAR TROF PATTERN DEEPENS ACROSS
THE ATLC INTO THE NRN CARIBBEAN. WILL LIKELY SEE A RETURN OF EARLY
MORNING SHALLOW CONVECTION ACROSS NORTHEAST PR TYPICAL OF WINTER
AND PLEASANT AFTERNOONS.
&&
.AVIATION...BKN TO OVC SKIES EXPECTED ACROSS THE PR TERMINALS AS
WELL AS TIST WITH LIGHT RAIN SHOWERS OVERNIGHT. CIGS EXPECTED TO BE
MAINLY BETWEEN 4-7K FT WITH OCNL PERIODS OF AROUND 3K FT. WINDS WILL
BE FROM LIGHT AND VRB TO NORTHERLY AT 10 KTS OR LESS ACROSS PR AND
USVI. TNCM AND TKPK CAN EXPECT WINDS FROM THE WEST LATE
TONIGHT...SHIFTING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST EARLY TOMORROW MORNING.
AFTER 24/16Z...SHRA/TSRA DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED ACROSS THE INTERIOR OF
PR...DUE TO UNCERTAINTY IN STEERING WINDS...VCTS WAS LEFT OUT OF
TAF.
&&
.MARINE...SEAS 4-6 FT IN NORTH SWELLS. WILL CHECK BUOYS AGAIN TO
SEE IF SMALL CRAFT ADVZY IS NEEDED.
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
SJU 77 87 77 86 / 80 40 70 70
STT 80 87 80 87 / 80 40 30 30
<--- Lives near Broad and Orleans ave.
: )
who Dat.
Department of Defense
Office of Civil Defense
Motion Picture Service
A Hurricane Called Betsy
AVA16542VNB1 - 1966
Recounts Hurricane Betsy's 3,000-mile trip from the Caribbean through the Bahamas, Miami, the Florida Keys, and along the Gulf Coast to New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle
November 22, 2012
OSLO (Reuters) - Fifteen years ago, fears about man-made climate change were enough to bind most of the industrialized world into a treaty that was flawed but at least seemed to cement the principle that greenhouse gases must be cut.
Yet now - with levels of those gases much higher and climate change more evident in extreme weather - economic slowdown and arguments over who should pay have all but killed any chance of a meaningful extension to the expiring Kyoto Protocol.
Story continues here.
Chasing Ice
The movie
Why are you fascinated by ice?
I was inspired by a book I saw in graduate school that had black and white photos shot by Austin Post, a research scientist for the United States Geological Survey at that time. The guy had an understanding of glaciers that was as sensitive and intimate as people are to their spouses. In my head, I can still see these glittering icy peaks with gigantic glaciers pouring down and big black pieces of ice separating the ice streams in extraordinary shapes—otherworldly places that were far outside of the reality we live in.
Why would people want to see melting ice?
It’s an adventure film that unravels the secrets of the ice. It takes place in these extraordinary wilderness settings and beyond that, the glaciers give you a three-dimensional visual of how climate change reshapes the world. You can see and hear and touch climate change in action when you see the images—a relatively abstract concept is brought to life.
Was there a moment when you went from being a climate change skeptic to a believer?
Once I learned that the core of climate change was not about computer models but about empirical evidence from Iceland and Antarctica. Once I understood that the evidence was tangible. Then I thought, “This is real.”
No I don't "got it". I totally disagree. The sun isn't weather but fog is. I've never heard of a airport being closed due to sun or light rain so hour analogy is immature. Got it. Thanks.
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/11/2 0/chasing-ice-photographer-james-balog-on-a-glacia l-adventure/
YouTube Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIZTMVNBjc4&featur e=youtube_gdata_player
One more thing...
Meta-analysis is a statistical procedure designed to extract a weak signal from a collection of otherwise well-designed and well-executed scientific studies. It was never intended to be used process poorly-designed and poorly-executed studies, such as most of those published by parapsychologists. In fact, one of the first steps is to get rid of the poorest studies, before running the statistical procedure on the remainder.
Piling 1000 more bad studies on top of an existing pile of 1000 bad studies won't get you anywhere you want to be, just as adding up zero a million times will only get you... ZERO.
As we say in statistics... Garbage in, Garbage out.
Drought strengthens
Posted: Nov 16, 2012 8:32 PM CST Updated: Nov 22, 2012 8:59 PM CST
By Patrick Vaughn
Severe Drought conditions across Southeast Texas
The drought across Southeast Texas has strengthened over the past week and we are now in Severe Drought conditions which is the second level of drought classification.
Since September 1st, Southeast Texas has only received 8.21 inches of rainfall which is only 56% of normal. Normally, we should have picked up 14.78 inches during the same time period.
Since the beginning of this year, we are still 3.22 inches above normal.
The long-term forecast from the Climate Prediction Center shows this latest drought persisting.
Thanks for the video. Was in Baton Rouge, a junior in high school when she hit. Eye was enough open to see stars when it passed over. An awesome experience. We had 17 pines trees go down and that kept me busy for quite a while.
Who dat back at ya. Couple of tough ones coming up. Brees on CBS at 9pm.
Ted Gregory | Chicago Tribune 11.22.12
Excerpt: CHICAGO — Reed Scherer has heard the question: Why in the world does he devote his career to studying Antarctica, the coldest, windiest place on earth, a place that is 98 percent solid ice? Even his wife jokes that he could pursue his research in the Caribbean.
The Northern Illinois University professor's answer is simple. Almost imperceptible geographic and climate blips over the rest of the globe are exaggerated in Antarctica. It's a phenomenon known as polar amplification.
"The reason is obvious to me, anyway," Scherer said one sunny afternoon in his third-floor office in DeKalb, Ill., outside Chicago. "If you want to know how the world is changing on a global basis ... you go to the end member."
That's where he'll be Friday, at the end member that, in a way, also is a place of origins. He and NIU colleague Ross Powell, another distinguished Polar scientist, will meet in the Antarctic. Joining them are a Ph.D. student and a senior geology major from NIU, a research associate in the university's computer science department and a fourth-grade teacher from Crystal Lake.
For almost a month, the group will sleep in tents and toil for up to 15 hours a day in converted shipping containers. Temperatures hover around 5 degrees Fahrenheit and 90 mph winds create massive snowdrifts and whiteouts. The reason for enduring that misery would seem to be a contradiction. Their work will provide crucial insight into global warming.
The NIU professors are researchers in a key part of a $10 million National Science Foundation project known as WISSARD, for Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling. It's a long-winded phrase for an effort aimed at studying ice sheet stability and subglacial life in West Antarctica.
That's an important region for climate change. Scientific evidence indicates that relatively recent instability in the Antarctic ice sheet, which covers the land, is raising sea levels.
The NIU crew, among other tasks, is gathering data from subglacial Lake Whillans that will help understand the ice sheet's instability and lead to forecasting Antarctic ice activity. Those are fundamental factors in climate change.
It starts at McMurdo Station, the logistics hub of the National Science Foundation Antarctic Program.
Established in 1955 on bare volcanic rock at the spot that is farthest south and still reachable by ship, McMurdo consists of about 85 structures, including dormitories, administrative buildings, power and water distillation plants, stores and a laboratory. Scherer likens it to a polar version of a 19th-century mining town.
While the researchers undergo survival training - known in the vernacular as "Happy Camper School" - and perform other preliminaries, a crew using giant Caterpillar tractors will haul equipment and supplies 570 miles to a site on the Ross ice shelf.
Researchers will arrive at camp via airplane about the first of the year and begin work. NIU, which has been sending scholars to the Antarctic since the early 1960s, is one of 10 universities in the project. In all, about 40 people are in the current group.
More details about the expedition here.
Snowicane of October 1804
Gale of 1878
Hi Allen. I'm doing fine. Hope you are as well. :) Just been keeping crazy hours lately. Not a lot going on here weather-wise. It has been beautiful here for the most part. As long as we don't slip too far into the drought again.
Yeah, that's what I thought... ;-)
Cause it's hi in the middle?
HGX issued a "Dense Fog Advisory" at 1:11 AM Thursday morning which included Chambers County. The advisory was issued under the "NPW" (Non-Precipitation Weather) header.
No Dense Fog Advisories were issued by NWS LCH but the possibility of fog was mentioned in several Area Forecast Discussions prior to the accident(s)
Some of the more notable types of "weather" in addition to Dense Fog/Smoke Watches, Warnings, and Advisories using this header:
High Wind Watch
High Wind Warning
Freeze Watch
Freeze Warning
Excessive Heat Watch
Excessive Heat Warning
Heat Advisory
Convective, Flooding, Winter Precip events usually fall under different parts of the hierarchy for NWS text products.
Carl Sandburg's poem "Fog" was written in 1919 before 70mph Interstate highways were around. As a landlubber, I don't think he was too afraid of the fog. Unlike tornadoes, floods, lightning, etc., "Progress" has made fog "severe".
The following should probably not be read by the weak-of-heart...
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
~ Carl Sandburg
Because Ohio has Ohio State(college) and I hate Ohio State with a passion since I'm a Michigan fan.
To some here it may not be, but at sea or on the road it can be a severe visibility hazard to travellers.
We seen the after effects of what dense fog can cause, car accidents, boat accidents.
I once was driving in my car in dense fog and I could only see about 1-2ft in front. I drove by the cat's eyes on the road and the lane markings I could see. It was very scary. So would I call that severe weather. Yes, Yes I would. Cause personally it was severe enough that I felt like stopping but I didn't as I was afraid of being rear-ended.
Isn't Fog actually classified as Low cloud?
Simma down dude. You win. Ripping up the petition to the NWS now. And never implied meteorologists are stupid. Woulda been one myself but didn't want to get that black smug crap that comes off those coins on my hands.
Go take a walk in the fog, Gro. It's very soothing.
i likes da fog.
Don't worry about him, He thinks he's all high and mighty and above all of us minions. I noticed he doesn't reply to me as I don't take being bullied.
I have a headache, but its due to the low pressure.
I don't take his bullying either. He brings no value or credibility to this blog. Just his own shallow opinions.
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Lake Effect Snow advisories issued for many areas surrounding Lakes Ontario and Erie
click for larger image
Will TWC name it? or since it's occurring on a weekend they won't.
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