And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Is the interglacial warming period over? Maybe! I pine for the return of the wooly mammoth!
NOAA ice cover data from the Great Lakes Ice Tracker shows that Lake Erie's current ice coverage is 80%, well above the 50-year trend of 46% for this time of year.
Meanwhile at my home in Copper Basin Alaska a couple weeks ago we went from -37 to +37 in under 48 hours, had two weekend ice storms and it hasn’t been below about +15 since. Forecast says temperatures above freezing from tomorrow through Monday! -30 would be more normal! The arctic air moving south in the lower 48 allows warm Pacific air to move in over Alaska to replace it!
Looking at the bar graph at the bottom, it doesn't appear to be unusual for this time of year. It's often worse, and sometimes near 0%. 80% is well within the range of expected values, so nothing unusual happening here.
According to Milankavitch cycle graphs, we just passed the zero line of positive/negative temperature increase decrease on the way down in the current cycle.
Grandfather described driving across Lake Michigan from Milwaukee area to Muskegon to go hunting in the 20's or 30's. Not really new to the area, just puts our shortish lives in perspective.
get use to it, we are headed towards a period of cooling, little age similar to 1650-1715...50 plus/minus years coming. by the way, FL has had snow before...
Ship captains who've regularly transited the northwest passage say summer 2024 is the most ice they've seen in fifty years.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile at my home in Copper Basin Alaska a couple weeks ago we went from -37 to +37 in under 48 hours, had two weekend ice storms and it hasn’t been below about +15 since. Forecast says temperatures above freezing from tomorrow through Monday! -30 would be more normal! The arctic air moving south in the lower 48 allows warm Pacific air to move in over Alaska to replace it!
ReplyDeleteGlobal Warming alert..It's always coldest before the warm!
ReplyDeletebut Al Gore said by 2000 there would be no more winters
ReplyDeletebet Al Gore has his thermostat at 80F today
ReplyDeleteLooking at the bar graph at the bottom, it doesn't appear to be unusual for this time of year. It's often worse, and sometimes near 0%. 80% is well within the range of expected values, so nothing unusual happening here.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Milankavitch cycle graphs, we just passed the zero line of positive/negative temperature increase decrease on the way down in the current cycle.
ReplyDeleteNemo
All down to Global Warming, I'm sure.
ReplyDeleteGrandfather described driving across Lake Michigan from Milwaukee area to Muskegon to go hunting in the 20's or 30's. Not really new to the area, just puts our shortish lives in perspective.
ReplyDeleteThank God for globull warming! Otherwise everyone would literally freeze to death.
ReplyDeleteget use to it, we are headed towards a period of cooling, little age similar to 1650-1715...50 plus/minus years coming. by the way, FL has had snow before...
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