[Vision2020] Thunderstorm

[Craine Kit]

Thanks Paul. Sounds reasonable to me, although I associate thunder with much warmer air meeting a cold front with a larger drop in temperature. 

Kit 

On Dec 8, 2012, at 12:13 PM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> It could just be, you know, weather.
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> 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.
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> I'm sure the climate scientists have attributed this to global warming somewhere along the line, and by assumption excess CO2.
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> 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.
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> Does anyone else see a trend I'm missing?
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> 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.
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> Paul
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> 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.
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>> 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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