What's the fucking weather?

[msslave]

Sunny today, but high temp only 2 above.

Tomorrow starts out at 10 below zero F.  But...big change for later in the afternoon.  Around 3 PM the temp will soar up to near 90!!!  A 100 degree change.

Oh, did I forget to mention that I'll be stepping of the plane in Zihuatanejo, Mexico.  See you guys again in a week!  Take care all.

[joan1984]

Bad news for warmists: Sun has entered 'weakest solar cycle in a century'
By Thomas Lifson

The conceit that human production of carbon dioxide is capable of driving the earth’s climate is running smack into the sun. CO2 accounts for a mere 0.039% of the atmosphere, while the sun accounts for 99.86% of all of the mass in our entire solar system. And Ol’ Sol is not taking the insult lightly. Vencore Weather reports:

    For the past 5 days, solar activity has been very low and one measure of solar activity – its X-ray output – has basically flatlined in recent days (plot below courtesy NOAA/Space Weather Prediction Center). Not since cycle 14 peaked in February 1906 has there been a solar cycle with fewer sunspots.

    We are currently more than six years into Solar Cycle 24 and today the sun is virtually spotless despite the fact that we are still in what is considered to be its solar maximum phase. Solar cycle 24 began after an unusually deep solar minimum that lasted from 2007 to 2009 which included more spotless days on the sun compared to any minimum in almost a century.

There are several possible consequences to the solar quiet. The first is counterintuitive:

    By all Earth-based measures of geomagnetic and geoeffective solar activity, this cycle has been extremely quiet. However, while a weak solar cycle does suggest strong solar storms will occur less often than during stronger and more active cycles, it does not rule them out entirely. In fact, the famous Carrington Event of 1859 occurred during a weak solar cycle (#10) [http://thesiweather.com/2014/09/02/300-pm-the-carrington-event-of-1859-a-solar-superstorm-that-took-places-155-years-ago/]. In addition, there is some evidence that most large events such as strong solar flares and significant geomagnetic storms tend to occur in the declining phase of the solar cycle. In other words, there is still a chance for significant solar activity in the months and years ahead.

Our dependence on electronic devices is such that extreme solar events could have serious consequences.  However, it is the likely impact on atmospheric temperatures that threatens the “consensus” on global warming:

    …if history is a guide, it is safe to say that weak solar activity for a prolonged period of time can have a negative impact on global temperatures in the troposphere which is the bottom-most layer of Earth’s atmosphere - and where we all live. There have been two notable historical periods with decades-long episodes of low solar activity. The first period is known as the “Maunder Minimum”, named after the solar astronomer Edward Maunder, and it lasted from around 1645 to 1715. The second one is referred to as the “Dalton Minimum”, named for the English meteorologist John Dalton, and it lasted from about 1790 to 1830. Both of these historical periods coincided with below-normal global temperatures in an era now referred to by many as the “Little Ice Age”. In addition, research studies in just the past couple of decades have found a complicated relationship between solar activity, cosmic rays, and clouds on Earth. This research suggests that in times of low solar activity where solar winds are typically weak; more cosmic rays reach the Earth’s atmosphere which, in turn, has been found to lead to an increase in certain types of clouds that can act to cool the Earth.

It is common sense to believe that the sun has more influence on global temperatures than a trace gas. With a 17 year “pause” in the predicted outcomes of an increase in atmospheric CO2, warmists face more and more awkward questions. If temperatures actually decline as a result of an expected decrease in solar activity, at some point the game will be up, and the billions of dollars a year squandered on climate modeling that doesn’t predict what happens will have to dry up.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/02/bad_news_for_warmists_sun_has_entered_weakest_solar_cycle_in_a_century.html#ixzz3S8TaMfQ0
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[Katiebee]

Fails to take into affect that the computer model that was used to test the volcano theory for the little ice age was run a constant solar output to test the effect of the two minimums of solar activity, and showed that they had little effect on the cooling.

Don't put all of your eggs in one blog when preaching gloom and doom.

[watcher1]

Sunny today, but high temp only 2 above.

Tomorrow starts out at 10 below zero F.  But...big change for later in the afternoon.  Around 3 PM the temp will soar up to near 90!!!  A 100 degree change.

Oh, did I forget to mention that I'll be stepping of the plane in Zihuatanejo, Mexico.  See you guys again in a week!  Take care all.

Zihuatanejo?  Shawshank Redemption?  You going to meet Andy Dufresne? 

[msslave]

Looks like the boat has sailed.  This is the beach (Playa Larga) all the cab drivers will take you to, if you ask about "Shawshank Redemption".  Looks good, but checking IMDB you'll find the final scene was filmed in the U.S. Virgin Islands.  Still, if you wanna say I've been to "The Beach" this looks a lot like the movie.

[joe_and_michelle]

-11 when I came into work.  -6 now.   Thought I'd go back and read some posts from summer of '14

95° today.  Dog days of summer, but absolutely doable...

100 today, 101 tomorrow, 102 Saturday, etc...

97°, 99°, 97°, 97°, 97° ...

104°?!
IT'S FUCKING HOT...
Tucson, Arizona

[Elizabeth]

It's cold here...........
So cold that the horses don't want to leave the barn.
However on the flip side, it's suppose to get up to 50 degrees on Sunday.
(how that's gonna happen is beyond me).

Love,
Liz

[Katiebee]

I don't know what they're bellyaching about. We have it tough here, it's only getting to 66, and monday it will be around 34.

[Katiebee]

Oh nice!

Taking phone pics while driving under icy, snowy, and low visibility conditions.

[NaughtyNicole]

It's cold here...........
So cold that the horses don't want to leave the barn.
However on the flip side, it's suppose to get up to 50 degrees on Sunday.
(how that's gonna happen is beyond me).

Love,
Liz

It's finally above Zero after -12 this morning. They are saying 40 on Sunday here but that will be after the next snow storm ends............then back down to zero again Monday night I think!

Think I am about 100 miles or so north of you!

[watcher1]

At 0 now.

Want to add, for East side members.

I drove to Chicago yesterday for work, one day road trip. I was looking at a 4 1/2 hour ride each way. Most of my ride is going thru Michigan. I got about Kalamazoo area and almost total white out on the way there. Crazy snow and wind for the rest of Michigan and a good part of my 45 miles in Indiana. Chicago was fine with no issues.

The ride home:
I got about 40 miles thru Indiana when I again hit the wall of snow. And again it lasted at least thru Kalamazoo. The ride home took about 7 1/2 hours. Got to love that lake effect snow.

Geez, you going to Chicago yesterday was like going from the freezer into the deep freeze.  We set a record yesterday for the coldest February 19th ever.  But no one can beat Chicago in the summer time. 

[watcher1]

Never nice to piss off Katie.   

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[brody]

Never nice to piss off Katie.  

Sounds like there's LOTS of folk that are gettin' ticked and pissed at ol' man winter.  Even issued an arrest warrant for Elsa of "Frozen".

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/02/20/frozen-character-wanted-by-kentucky-police/23731973/

[Elizabeth]

Think I am about 100 miles or so north of you!
[/quote]

NW New Jersey where Route 80 cuts through the Delaware Water Gap going into Pennsy...Thats Home.
 
Love,
Liz

[NaughtyNicole]

Think I am about 100 miles or so north of you!

NW New Jersey where Route 80 cuts through the Delaware Water Gap going into Pennsy...Thats Home.
 
Love,
Liz

[/quote]

I remembered that you said Northern NJ. I am in the Mid Hudson Valley in NY North of Route 84.

[Elizabeth]

73° and sunny, with blue skies, here in the Texas Hill Country.  Popping open a Shiner Bock.  TGIF.

"Fuck You".....
It's just barely 3 degrees here..!!!!!
Love Ya.....
Liz

[aaron23062]

Indiana. The winter storm warning claims 4 to 8 inches of snow are coming. At least it's no longer a negative temperature! Look on the sunny side of life.

[anvil]

yaaa a heavy wet spring snow in Colorado!

wtf? its still February!  we will take what we can get!

[Katiebee]

Up to 1.4 inches of sleet in the DFW area last night with possibly more tonight.

[joe_and_michelle]

And the fine people of DFW are saying, "FTS!"
My cousin in Austin isn't very happy with conditions there either.