[Vision2020] Thunderstorm

[Paul Rumelhart]

It could just be, you know, weather.

The jet stream happens to be flowing right over the top of us right now, 
pretty much north to south.  We've had warmer air around us (relatively 
speaking) for a while now.  Maybe that caused it?  We're on the edge of 
a huge cold front that is hitting (or is about to hit) the Midwest.

I'm sure the climate scientists have attributed this to global warming 
somewhere along the line, and by assumption excess CO2.

Personally, looking back on all the winters I've spent here, the only 
trend I see is unpredictability.  We get bad winters, mild winters, 
winters where it gets really cold around the holidays but not much snow, 
winters where it's OK in December but a snowy mess in February, winters 
where not much happens, etc.  I haven't found an easy way to predict 
them, especially in ENSO-neutral winters like this one.

Does anyone else see a trend I'm missing?

Joe: am I allowed to repeat what I've seen on the weather channel and 
reminisce about past winters, or do I need to be a bonafide climate 
scientist for that?  I'm still trying to figure out the rules.

Paul

On 12/07/2012 09:23 PM, Craine Kit wrote:
> I'm looking for some thoughts on tonight's thunderstorm.
>
> I've lived in Moscow all of my life. A thunderstorm in December is beyond my experience.  I also have a bit  of educational background on climate, meteorology, and thunderstorms. Having a thunderstorm in the middle of a snowstorm is really weird.
>
> So what do all of you out there (especially Ted) think of tonight's storm. Is this global warming, the gods upset over the atheist sign south of town, or what?
>
> Kit Craine
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