It was 104 today
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Re: It was 104 today
It was 82 at the boathouse in New Hampshire today. Killer day!!
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Ok thats enough Don't Come back till its 70 here and below freezing in New Hampshire. 
I'm just goin on with ya
but I am jealous
I'm just goin on with ya
but I am jealous
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It stormed for 20 minutes here today without as much as a 5 minute warning.
Was 103 before the rain. Right after that it was 107 plus 1000% humidity.. and then the breeze stopped.
Seriously. When the rain doesn't cool anything down, that was some shitty rain. This rain was broken. Hot sticky rain.. yuck. It's just now starting to seep into the ground after 4 hours. WTH? Broken rain!
Was 103 before the rain. Right after that it was 107 plus 1000% humidity.. and then the breeze stopped.
Seriously. When the rain doesn't cool anything down, that was some shitty rain. This rain was broken. Hot sticky rain.. yuck. It's just now starting to seep into the ground after 4 hours. WTH? Broken rain!
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Broken Rain -- that could be a band name!
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Sounds like a cuffed euphamism for when a whore goes into labor.
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ROFL! Where has your mind been that it comes up with these metaphors? Do I even want to know?
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I probably get all this from wishing someone else was in charge.
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Reel, it it wasn't for folks like you I would know I'm completely insane.
And the new SteveH...
Same thing happened here in Irmo, SC.
Par for the course.
Hot rain sucks the worst when you're in a car with no A/C.
Don't want to drench the interior, and can't quite roll the windows down enough to keep the "55 Air Conditioner" pumping.
And the new SteveH...
Same thing happened here in Irmo, SC.
Par for the course.
Hot rain sucks the worst when you're in a car with no A/C.
Don't want to drench the interior, and can't quite roll the windows down enough to keep the "55 Air Conditioner" pumping.
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We are all insane, but I know you guys would turn me in like chewing a leg off to get out of trap.
Yep. I am a bloody discarded appendage.
Irmo.. welp!
Yep. I am a bloody discarded appendage.
Irmo.. welp!
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I've always been crazy.........
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The CO2 imbalance is starting to fuck up the planet. And its a delicate tipping point. Its happening all around the world.
These are averaged annual PPM (parts per million) atmospheric CO2 measurements taken in Hawaii from 1960 til the present
[img:350:225]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... en.svg.png[/img]
similar story here (NZ from 1970 til the present)
[img:413:314]http://www.mfe.govt.nz/environmental-re ... baring.jpg[/img]
These measuring places were picked because of their relative isolation from human settlements, so its a fairly sobering picture.
The nuts and bolts are that as long as we keep producing CO2 faster than the planet's plants and phytoplankton can recycle it into oxygen, then the increasing levels of CO2 will gradually warm the atmosphere. (CO2 molecules are like insulation - they retain infra-red wavelengths and dissipate heat by convection, so the more CO2 there is, the warmer the atmosphere gets). A warmer atmosphere will have different impacts depending on where you are. Might be more rain and snow in cooler areas (due to higher atmospheric humidity), or might be desertification. So there's likely to be more extremes either way.
Here in NZ its been a lot wetter and on average cooler in recent years. I remember (as a kid in the '60s) that our summers used to be a lot hotter and drier. Last year we had snow down to sea level in mid August (which is usually the end of winter here), and summers are now usually wet weather and cooler with more flash-flooding and weird things like tornados etc (which we never used to see)
These are averaged annual PPM (parts per million) atmospheric CO2 measurements taken in Hawaii from 1960 til the present
[img:350:225]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... en.svg.png[/img]
similar story here (NZ from 1970 til the present)
[img:413:314]http://www.mfe.govt.nz/environmental-re ... baring.jpg[/img]
These measuring places were picked because of their relative isolation from human settlements, so its a fairly sobering picture.
The nuts and bolts are that as long as we keep producing CO2 faster than the planet's plants and phytoplankton can recycle it into oxygen, then the increasing levels of CO2 will gradually warm the atmosphere. (CO2 molecules are like insulation - they retain infra-red wavelengths and dissipate heat by convection, so the more CO2 there is, the warmer the atmosphere gets). A warmer atmosphere will have different impacts depending on where you are. Might be more rain and snow in cooler areas (due to higher atmospheric humidity), or might be desertification. So there's likely to be more extremes either way.
Here in NZ its been a lot wetter and on average cooler in recent years. I remember (as a kid in the '60s) that our summers used to be a lot hotter and drier. Last year we had snow down to sea level in mid August (which is usually the end of winter here), and summers are now usually wet weather and cooler with more flash-flooding and weird things like tornados etc (which we never used to see)
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Our temps have finally moderated a bit (into the 90's) with the arrival of the "monsoon season".
The monsoon concept was new to me when we moved to NM from the Pacific NW. The weather goes from hot and dry to hot and humid with thunderstorms every day. We actually got some rain out of the deal, which is really badly needed this year.
Most folks here use evaporative coolers instead of refrigerated A/C. The swamp coolers work great when it's dry, but they are inefficient when the humidity goes up.
Anyway, it's nice to have a break from the 100 degree temps.
The monsoon concept was new to me when we moved to NM from the Pacific NW. The weather goes from hot and dry to hot and humid with thunderstorms every day. We actually got some rain out of the deal, which is really badly needed this year.
Most folks here use evaporative coolers instead of refrigerated A/C. The swamp coolers work great when it's dry, but they are inefficient when the humidity goes up.
Anyway, it's nice to have a break from the 100 degree temps.
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Its only 98 and cloudy today but the humidity has increaeasd so i feels even hotter than 104.Sun supposed to pop out this afternoon and temps soar
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Yes, but...tubeswell wrote:The CO2 imbalance is starting to fuck up the planet. And its a delicate tipping point. Its happening all around the world.
These are averaged annual PPM (parts per million) atmospheric CO2 measurements taken in Hawaii from 1960 til the present
[img:350:225]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... en.svg.png[/img]
similar story here (NZ from 1970 til the present)
[img:413:314]http://www.mfe.govt.nz/environmental-re ... baring.jpg[/img]
These measuring places were picked because of their relative isolation from human settlements, so its a fairly sobering picture.
The nuts and bolts are that as long as we keep producing CO2 faster than the planet's plants and phytoplankton can recycle it into oxygen, then the increasing levels of CO2 will gradually warm the atmosphere. (CO2 molecules are like insulation - they retain infra-red wavelengths and dissipate heat by convection, so the more CO2 there is, the warmer the atmosphere gets). A warmer atmosphere will have different impacts depending on where you are. Might be more rain and snow in cooler areas (due to higher atmospheric humidity), or might be desertification. So there's likely to be more extremes either way.
Here in NZ its been a lot wetter and on average cooler in recent years. I remember (as a kid in the '60s) that our summers used to be a lot hotter and drier. Last year we had snow down to sea level in mid August (which is usually the end of winter here), and summers are now usually wet weather and cooler with more flash-flooding and weird things like tornados etc (which we never used to see)
The thermal capacity of the atmosphere is only 1/1000 that of the ocean. Because the ocean is very deep, there is thermal exhange only from the very top of it. Most models therefore assume atmospheric thermal capacity that is 0.1 that of the top ocean layer.
Even at nearly 400 ppm, CO2 represents only 1/400 of all greenhouse gases present in the atmosphere. This means that even if CO2 were completely efficient at absorbing infrared photons (it isn't, of course), for every measured degree of warming, CO2 could at most contribute only 0.025 percent of it (the rest being stored by the ocean and the other greenhouse gases).
So although levels of CO2 are impressive (thanks China), climate sensitivity to CO2 is actually very, very small.
Good luck with that carbon tax down there.
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yet the glaciers keep melting.Thats what will change the ocean currents and have the biggests impact on weather and life as we know it