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Post by missouriboy on Jul 16, 2021 5:20:10 GMT
With strong high pressure camped over the Pacific NW and over much of the East Coast my part of the world is experiencing the coolest summer in decades. With a lack of high pressure we have been much wetter and cooler. It's kind of nice for a change. Ditto here. Wet, wet, wetter. That's just to prepare you for round 2 ... winter 2021-22. |
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Post by phydeaux2363 on Jul 16, 2021 11:43:40 GMT
Same on the Mississippi Coast. And I spent the last two weeks in coastal Maine, where the locals have complained about how wet it's been. Cool, too. High temps have been in the low 20s C.
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Post by blustnmtn on Jul 16, 2021 11:47:07 GMT
It seems that summer is always the time of year when the Climate Change Mob has there moment to try to advance their cause. Based on polling data, they’re generally failing. They don’t and won’t give up though! Dr. Curry has just put an excellent essay up on her blog that sums up what’s going on very well: “Climate scientists are writing op-eds and spouting off on twitter, about AGW causing, or at least exacerbating, the heat wave. Scientists in this category are those who spout off on the topic, use heat waves to advocate for their preferred climate policies, without having done any actual work on the topic.” judithcurry.com/2021/07/15/heat-waves-and-hot-air/#more-27724 |
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Post by walnut on Jul 16, 2021 13:20:24 GMT
A cool and damp day in Tulsa. No real summer yet as I would recognize it.
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Post by missouriboy on Jul 16, 2021 16:45:51 GMT
Cooling and wetting of half a continent eastward from 100W to the Atlantic and south to the Gulf. Same thing across the other continents. The major flushing of northward flowing drainages off the Alps (and their relative rarity) together with "cool" suggest northern pressure systems moving south. Cool air holds less water and it seems to condense along edges.
Certain types of plants seem not to have flowered this year.
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Post by acidohm on Jul 16, 2021 17:24:33 GMT
Cooling and wetting of half a continent eastward from 100W to the Atlantic and south to the Gulf. Same thing across the other continents. The major flushing of northward flowing drainages off the Alps (and their relative rarity) together with "cool" suggest northern pressure systems moving south. Cool air holds less water and it seems to condense along edges. Certain types of plants seem not to have flowered this year. Our garden is underwhelming this year, lots of green but little colour. Last night as a BBC weather guy informed us the jet was loopy due to climate change I was a little annoyed. I know we've discussed this many times on the old board so I did a search, the first mention of loopy jet was 2013 by Naut.  |
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Post by parcherynut on Jul 16, 2021 17:24:49 GMT
In a potentially interesting correlation - the article below mentions current flooding passing severe flood levels attained in 93/95. Astro predicts this northern Hemisphere winter to be brutal, the flooding in the Netherlands of 93/95 would have presumably preceded harsh or severe Eastern U.S. winters (93/94 and 95/96). The late January 94 arctic airmass was the coldest of my lifetime in Pennsylvania, and the winter of 95/96 was the snowiest. "Where the Meuse and Rur rivers snake through the Netherlands, water levels reached record-high levels, passing heights that led to severe flooding in 1993 and 1995, Reuters reported." www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/death-toll-rises-in-germany-belgium-as-disastrous-flooding-continues/983425 |
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Post by acidohm on Jul 16, 2021 17:28:39 GMT
Recently many weather twitter types got excited as UK looked set to achieve 30°c for the first time this year, they've gone very quiet so I assume it won't.
June was the first summer month since 2018 to not hit 30.
If no summer month does it'll be the first time since 1993.
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Post by Sigurdur on Jul 16, 2021 19:22:10 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Jul 16, 2021 19:59:23 GMT
In a potentially interesting correlation - the article below mentions current flooding passing severe flood levels attained in 93/95. Astro predicts this northern Hemisphere winter to be brutal, the flooding in the Netherlands of 93/95 would have presumably preceded harsh or severe Eastern U.S. winters (93/94 and 95/96). The late January 94 arctic airmass was the coldest of my lifetime in Pennsylvania, and the winter of 95/96 was the snowiest. "Where the Meuse and Rur rivers snake through the Netherlands, water levels reached record-high levels, passing heights that led to severe flooding in 1993 and 1995, Reuters reported." www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/death-toll-rises-in-germany-belgium-as-disastrous-flooding-continues/983425 1993 was a record precipitation summer here in Middle Earth ... 25 inches (June-August). 17+ so far this summer, so we may make a run at it. Great Flood of 1993 The Great Flood of 1993 was a flood that occurred in the Midwestern United States, along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and their tributaries, from April to October 1993. The flood was among the most costly and devastating to ever occur in the United States, with $15 billion in damages. |
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Post by nonentropic on Jul 16, 2021 20:37:07 GMT
Think of the aquifers MB.
In all seriousness Australia had a massive recharge this last year the water needs to stand for a long time for it to work
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Post by duwayne on Jul 16, 2021 20:58:12 GMT
It's flooding around our Tucson desert home. The local fire department rescued 3 people from their vehicle which was swept down a normally dry river bed behind our house. This is the continuation of a very wet and unusually stormy period.
I can hardly wait until the July numbers are recorded so I can send them to my Professor friend at Arizona University who has predicted a super dry summer due to global warming. |
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Post by missouriboy on Jul 16, 2021 22:46:37 GMT
Think of the aquifers MB. In all seriousness Australia had a massive recharge this last year the water needs to stand for a long time for it to work We are in karst country here, so the aquifers are pretty deep. Clay and prairie soils on top. The caverns and spring systems in south MO are very large. More forest soils on top. There is an old farmers' saying around here that "you are only a week away from a drought" ... no matter how much rain you got last week. |
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Post by missouriboy on Jul 16, 2021 22:49:19 GMT
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Post by Sigurdur on Jul 16, 2021 23:41:08 GMT
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