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Well I don't turn on the tv. Listening to them will just confuse you. I only look at the computer models. The NOAA projections always seemed to be extremely reliable. Sites I used this time to monitor it: https://www.cyclocane.com/spag... - Was excellent trying to predict slight changes. https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graph... - The official track. Very reliable https://www.wunderground.com/h... - Shows five of the most reliable computer models. Does not show ECMWF https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.g... - live satellite view of movement. http://www.intellicast.com/Loc... - for local radar Of course you got to know your area. Flood areas is extremely important to know. Know how much wind the structure you are staying in can handle, the side of the storm you are on is very important. South side is lot weaker. North side very powerful. Basically just use common sense.

Historic averages for Boston. No it is not record lows, but maybe close. The only facts in this article is three sharks froze to death after beaching themselves for still as yet undetermined reasons. All the rest is speculation, they couldn't even be bothered to specify if it was 6 Fahrenheit or Celsius, or what the water temps are vs normal.

The rest reads like a social media blog, news reporting is a lost art.

Pecos just was ignored, and was in a unique place geological being in a wide plane surrounded by mountain ranges and higher elevations, it created a type of hot-box effect. I was driving a 1983 GMC Sierra Classic at the time. The little orange needle that showed if you were in PRND1-2 melted in half and the spring pulled it to the left. My sisters walkman melted in it.

Ahhh. Didn't notice you'd mentioned your town name. Your official record high for Pecos, TX is 118 (from back in 1968).

So that really hot day you remember? Picture it being more than 10 degrees hotter than that.

Nope.

http://www.intellicast.com/Loc...

I've been going around to different climate sites looking for unaltered data on either temperature or sea level. so far it was all "corrected".

Then a light bulb went off in the back of my head, the weather sites.
It's not intuitive, but it was more straight forward than the climate sites.
I went to http://www.intellicast.com/Loc...
You can set it to any city by using the http://www.intellicast.com/Loc...

Then go to the Historic Averages. there is a link at both the top and bottom of the page.
The Historic averages will list record months highs and lows. you can also click on months to look at records for individual days.

So far the most recent record high I've found was in 8 May 2007 for L.A but the most recent monthly average that set a record for L.A. was February 1995.
For New York it's Feb 1997.
For Anchorage/Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, it was March 1995.
For Des Moines Iowa it was Jan 2003.

There are also record lows that fall in that same time frame.

I've been going around to different climate sites looking for unaltered data on either temperature or sea level. so far it was all "corrected".

Then a light bulb went off in the back of my head, the weather sites.
It's not intuitive, but it was more straight forward than the climate sites.
I went to http://www.intellicast.com/Loc...
You can set it to any city by using the http://www.intellicast.com/Loc...

Then go to the Historic Averages. there is a link at both the top and bottom of the page.
The Historic averages will list record months highs and lows. you can also click on months to look at records for individual days.

So far the most recent record high I've found was in 8 May 2007 for L.A but the most recent monthly average that set a record for L.A. was February 1995.
For New York it's Feb 1997.
For Anchorage/Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, it was March 1995.
For Des Moines Iowa it was Jan 2003.

There are also record lows that fall in that same time frame.

Fukushima, Japan: Wind: 2mph, Direction: NA NA, Light Rain Weather is pretty dead, any radiation isn't going too far today

He could just check a site that doesn't use unblockable advertising pop-ups, like Intellicast Local Weather or The Weather Underground. Indeed, I find Weather Underground to be much better than weather.com, with more realtime data options and user-customizable maps.

Chuckle, chuckle chuckle.

If any of you care to do any of the most basic research on the history of climate studies, you will find some very strong "opinions" with regards to human induced climate change.

I do not think, or at least I haven't found one scientist yet that doesn't think the climate is changing.

Everyone agrees on that.

The human part is the sticky issue. I don't believe for example burning fossil fuels is making the sort of climate changes I have witnessed.

I DO know that when you follow THE MONEY on the issue here is what I come up with:

1) Hollywood has made millions off the idea.
2) Al Gore, has made a VERY comfortable living proclaiming it to be so, with a carbon "footprint" even George Bush would be impressed with, even though he has absolutely no expertise scientifically as a proponent of the idea.
3) Every major university institution is giving position and power to those who "TOW THE LINE" about human induced climate change based on Federal funding and NSF grants, which is very lucrative.
4) Every major prediction proclaimed since this idea has come about has been revised every year. Nobody it would seem can predict climatic change, even though, everyone working on the very lucrative professionally and financially idea of human induced climate change, has got the "research numbers down pat" they all assure us.

Contrast that sort of "fish bowl" science research with those in the astrophysics/solar weather fields that say our sun has/is going "berzerk" in the past 30 years.

http://www.intellicast.com/DrDewpoint/Library/1186 /
http://www.dxlc.com/solar/
http://physics.gmu.edu/~jevans/astr103/CourseNotes /sun_activity.html
http://www.spacew.com/astroalert.html

The solar cycles are completly out of "whack" right now.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/15sep_sola rminexplodes.htm

The suns behavior is anything but predictable and just this past January I was looking at beautiful aurora while I was visiting Chicago, IL.

Every major planet in the solars system is ALSO experiencing a warming trend.

http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/3 434

That could be due to all of the human colonies we have on mars for example as well as Jupitor's moons.

There is plenty of evidence for alternative explanations to climate change.

So why are we not hearing them?

ANSWER: No money to be made.

I mean look at some of the truly outrageous projects given considered SERIOUS thought by proponents of global warming:

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=8897

HOW MUCH do you think a project like that would cost and WHO DO you think is going to get the money for it?

It sure isn't the third world countries who are being asked to starve to death and endure this climate change.

There is no suggestion of planting more trees either as you can't make money off of planting trees. It costs too much.

I SEMLL A RAT.

-Hackus

-Hackus

"Ice cores don't actually indicate that, unless you mean the theory that perturbations in the Earth's orbit around the Sun affect the sunlight it receives.

Regardless, it's still a specious argument. There are many things that have had more influence on the climate than humans have. But that doesn't mean that the climate change caused by humans is of negligible impact on on human societies."

Wrong, flat wrong.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/icecores.html

There are tons of direct evidence to relate solar activity in deep time to climate change using ice core data....data which was collected before we got here.

I would also like to point out, that I do not think it is coincidence that the earth is warming during a time when scientists are describing some of the most intense flare ups of solar activity since indirect/direct measurement began of space weather in the past 80 years.

Point out just one study everyone agrees that man has changed the climate. You can't find one, in the scientific literature. All of the studies I have seen make extremely large assumptions about cause and effect, and no one has been able to model these effects to produce the changes we see in the earths climate at the moment.

Like I said before, these so called "scientists" advocating climate change by man, can't even design a weather model that predicts or acccurate describes any future weather pattern we see on a daily basis without weather sat info.

I would also like to point out, that we have very little understanding about ocean volcanic events. In the next couple of decades we will be deploying sats that will be able to monitor COMPLETE volcanic activity under the oceans. Which besides Solar activity I think there is plenty of evidence in the fossil record and today, to suggest volcanism is playing a role in the earths warming as well and is the second major factor in climate change.

Not running your car, or cows farting or Al Gore saying cows farting is an inconvienent truth.

For the record, Al Gore is an idiot and should stick to politics and leave science alone.

"That is, again, a specious argument; predicting the weather is a very different problem from predicting the climate. Furthermore, why do you bring up being unable to predict the weather without satellites and such? Of course you can't predict much if you have no data. But in the real world, we do have data.

You are also comparing apples and oranges; you point out observational evidence of species extinction, and then turn around and compare it to predictive power in the future. Of course prediction is harder than observation. Try comparing observational evidence of species extinction to observational evidence of man's past and present influence on the climate."

Let me get this straight. You are claiming that predicting small weather patterns, or localized weather phenomina, has no correlation and is of no help in predicting large scale climate change?

You must have studied logic at a American Univerisity.

I am not comparing Apples to Oranges. There is a clear solar cycle pattern, every 10-12 years that directly corresponds with climate change.

http://www.intellicast.com/DrDewpoint/Library/1186 /

If you think human civilization can match the power output of a star to change a planets surface temp your just as brain dead as our "pretend to be climate advocate" Al Gore.
(Did I mention the guy is a moron and could care less about the environment? Check out the car he drives and the 12,000 square foot mansion he lives in! Just the plane trips he takes to his book signings is probably killing all of us.)

"The fact that the Earth has been warmer and colder in the past has nothing to do with whether climate change is good for us as a species.

All that being said, I agree that biodiversity and other envir

... in my web browser using Forecast Fox.

And I wouldn't exactly say that weather.com is "useless". I can visit the site and it tells me what the forecast for taday, tonight, and tomorrow is. For me, that is typically enough. (And a weekend or 10-day forecast is one-click away too.)

Of course, if I am feeling frisky and want to look at nifty Java apps for radar data, I'll visit IntelliCast or some other site.

Again, for me, seeing the weather for today and tomorrow in my status bar is all the functionality I typically require.

"Day After Tomorrow"

Tornado Warning in Los Angeles today

Snow advisory in Southern California today

Let me propose another very important thing or two

The assumption that the CO2 levels measured at the ML observatory are representative of the "Cleanest air" or most un affected by local emissions is flawed. Air travel and in particular air freight which was insignificant only a few years ago has become dominant and Hi is a definitely affected and decending planes going into the airports in the islands would affect the sensors significantly. This is a matter of distrobution. It makes the entire supposition questionable.

I have not been of any doubt that global warming was occuring. I have been severely in doubt of why. There is a lot of data to indicate that the issue is more "Asphault effect" and the location of sensors than acutual warming. link to info

There are a lot of things going on. We would be wise not to be so fast as to think that everything is mankind's fault. I do think that pollution is a serious problem. I sincerely suspect that we should look somewhere else besides the USA for most of those problems though. The KYOTO process was screwed up because it left India/China et al out of the restriction and was essentially an anti USA document. If you want to reduce pollution everyone should be subject to the rules.

Well, I am in Hurricane Warning, and the storm is going to hit us. My shutters are up and all. At least this time, NASA didn't have a shuttle on dock. With past hurricanes, they always had to move those. NASA is already ready, but I don't think they will have much damage. They put the sattelites in plastic bags and it's original packing *insert joke here*

See http://www.intellicast.com/Local/USNationalWide.as p?loc=usa&seg=StormCenter&prodgrp=TrackingCharts&p roduct=HurTrack1&prodnav=none&pid=none for a Hurricane map, path, etc.

Actually, there are plenty of ski resorts in NM. Even places like Santa Fe may sound warm to you, but it'll be below freezing there tonight.

Yeah, -10 is probably an exaggeration, but there's pleny of high elevation in NM that can make for high winds and cold temps.

It takes TIME to develop fuel cells, fusion, hydrogen, or pig-shit based energy sources.

When the time comes the time will be taken. It is human nature to not be forward thinking. I didn't say that we shouldn't be looking at alternative energy sources. I said that no critical mass will form behind the research until everybody involved is convinced that we're going to meet some catastrophe if we don't. There is absolutely no agreement with respect to how much oil/coal/gas remains in the ground, and that is why there hasn't been much time spent on alternative energy. Again, I'm not saying it's right, but rather that that's the way it is.

I did not invoke Adam Smith at any point in my post. I'm not talking about invisible hands, I'm talking about something akin to not taking the time to figure out how to prevent an asteroid from hitting us until there's one that's going to hit us. It's not wise, but people don't deal in preparing for eventualities that are uncertain to ever even happen. We're all much better at figuring out how to fix things on the fly when they become a problem. Again, that's just the way it is.

Check out this site for an alternative view of Global Warming. Essentially, the idea is that the "warming" that we've seen is due to short term (decadal) trends, not long term ones. In the 70's people were talking about another ice age. Now people are talking about global warming. There's always a lot of talk, but we don't really understand our climate. Live with it.

I'm not a libertarian. I'm a centrist. I'm a realist. The government has been trying to help out alternative energy for years, and we're not all driving electric cars recharged off the solar panels on our houses are we? It hasn't worked so far and throwing more green at it ain't going to change that.

Indeed, there are many other theories to explain the apparent rise in global temperatures over the last years. For a good read about alternatives to the widely held the-oceans-will-rise-and-the-sky-will-fall belief, see Intellicast's Climate Watch/GW

I think he is talking about the interference pattern that is commonly seen in NEXRAD weather imagery. The NEXRAD sends out a very powerful signal that has the ability to bounce off of small objects in the atmosphere (such as raindrops or a flock of birds). Depending on what mode the NEXRAD is in, it has the ability to bounce off of even smaller objects in the atmosphere, very close to the NEXRAD site. This leaves a false image of what looks like rain when it is really not raining, in unedited NEXRAD images. To see NEXRAD images, go to www.intellicast.com and look for an area where there is no rain, then compare the standard RADAR with the NEXRAD images. It will appear to be raining near the NEXRAD location. There is also more info about NEXRAD at intellicast.com.

Not to be pedantic, but the Jet Stream generally flows under the US on the west coast, so his best bet would be to traverse over Mexico.

The main problem I have with this report is that the scientists (term loosely applied) that produced it arrogantly say that their data shows results that are independent from influence of solar activity and other natural forces. How did they do this? Did they build a working model of our planet and then switch off the sun, volcanoes, ocean currents, atmospheric currents, etc... It is a report that was prepared solely to support the conclusion that was already established; i.e. the horse being pushed by the buggy. The timing of release should make that abundantly clear. It is sad that scientists are willing to whore themselves and their integrity for political purposes. Here is an interesting article from Intellicast: Recent Changes In The Sun Signal Climate Shift

Save your eyes. Here is a nice picture of our Sun at Intellicast.

I don't know how to interpret the bright spot which can be seen towards the centre of The Sun, but I suspect that is the sunspot based on the picture in the article attached to this story.

Save your eyes. Here is a nice picture of our Sun at Intellicast.

I don't know how to interpret the bright spot which can be seen towards the centre of The Sun, but I suspect that is the sunspot based on the picture in the article attached to this story.

Save your eyes. Here is a nice picture of our Sun at Intellicast.

I don't know how to interpret the bright spot which can be seen towards the centre of The Sun, but I suspect that is the sunspot based on the picture in the article attached to this story.

Save your eyes. Here is a nice picture of our Sun at Intellicast.

I don't know how to interpret the bright spot which can be seen towards the centre of The Sun, but I suspect that is the sunspot based on the picture in the article attached to this story.

Intellicast.com is the best online source for weather information, especially stuff like the lunar eclipse. The storm will not let up until tomorrow.
On the StarCast page they list the viewing conditions for tonight's lunar eclipse.

--Ivan, weenie NT4 user: bite me!

Intellicast.com is the best online source for weather information, especially stuff like the lunar eclipse. The storm will not let up until tomorrow.
On the StarCast page they list the viewing conditions for tonight's lunar eclipse.

--Ivan, weenie NT4 user: bite me!

Intellicast.com is the best online source for weather information, especially stuff like the lunar eclipse. The storm will not let up until tomorrow.
On the StarCast page they list the viewing conditions for tonight's lunar eclipse.

--Ivan, weenie NT4 user: bite me!