The team found that the September ozone hole has shrunk by more than 4 million square kilometers — about half the area of the contiguous United States — since 2000, when ozone depletion was at its peak.
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The team found that the September ozone hole has shrunk by more than 4 million square kilometers — about half the area of the contiguous United States — since 2000, when ozone depletion was at its peak.
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Would you mind barreling some of it and shipping it to me in California?Ann wrote:Lovely day today. Sunny, warm, 21C. We haven't had many of those days in August. The Malmö Festival is in progress, so people are filling the downtown streets and squares, mingling about, buying snacks, listening to music and watching performances. The picture at left is from 2009, and today was sunnier.The Malmö festival. Photo: Stefan Stenudd.
Tomorrow temperatures are going to plunge, and we will have more and more rain.
Ann
I wasn't really listening to what you were saying here, BMAONE, but now I think I understand that you were talking about the forest fires of California, plus perhaps a general possibly state-wide drought.BMAONE23 wrote:Would you mind barreling some of it and shipping it to me in California?Ann wrote:Lovely day today. Sunny, warm, 21C. We haven't had many of those days in August. The Malmö Festival is in progress, so people are filling the downtown streets and squares, mingling about, buying snacks, listening to music and watching performances. The picture at left is from 2009, and today was sunnier.The Malmö festival. Photo: Stefan Stenudd.
Tomorrow temperatures are going to plunge, and we will have more and more rain.
Ann
We could use some of those Martian Canals
Not the same storm. This happened 600 km away from Malmö. If the timing is right, it might be part of the same broad storm system or weather pattern, but lightning like that occurs in rather small cells. Certainly, the clouds that Ann saw weren't producing lightning that was striking that far away. Indeed, asperitas clouds like those shown don't typically produce storms or lightning at all.Fred the Cat wrote:I hate to post this but it makes me wonder if the storm Ann was describing could have been responsible.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/world ... share&_r=0 :(
That's nearly half the year you don't look forward to. Sad and horrible. Maybe you should move.Ann wrote:After a moderately cool July and August, September has been really warm. It's been quite lovely, actually.
I'm not looking forward to October, November and December. Above all, I'm not looking forward to January and February!
Yeah, well... the weather and the climate is not much better anywhere else in Sweden. So, should I emigrate? Can't say I want to do that.Chris Peterson wrote:That's nearly half the year you don't look forward to. Sad and horrible. Maybe you should move.Ann wrote:After a moderately cool July and August, September has been really warm. It's been quite lovely, actually.
I'm not looking forward to October, November and December. Above all, I'm not looking forward to January and February!
It is practically impossible to relate a handful of extreme weather events in a single location, to global warming. One must look at many locations over a sufficient period of time and analyze the data against older records. The probability of extreme rainfall/flood events like these in any one location is typically measured in long time scales like 1 in 10 years, 1 in 50 years, 1 in 100 years, etc. Of course, extreme rainfall events occur somewhere on the surface of Earth at all times. And at any single location, it is not uncommon to observe clusters of extreme rainfall events in a relatively short period. Such is probability.Ann wrote:Two years ago, on August 31, 2014, Malmö was flooded. The picture at left is from Malmö. Passengers on a bus caught in the flood leave the bus on a ladder. Malmö is a quite flat city on the coast of Öresund, and much of the city was actually flooded. In the condominium house where I live, we had water in the basement, and extensive repairs have been made. But many people were hit much worse than us. (No one was killed or severely hurt, though.)
Exactly two years later, we had the kind of temperature contrasts in Europe that you can see in the image at right. I think it is these temperature contrasts that cause the extreme weather conditions that my city has experienced a few times in later years. I think it has to do with global warming, because we certainly didn't have any flooding in Malmö between 1964 and, say, 2010 or so.
This picture is from a winter storm in December 2012. The central, downtown part of Malmö so nearly got flooded.
Ann
https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=3464 wrote:
Hurricane Matthew Reorganizing Over The Bahamas; Major Shift in Long-Range Track
By: Jeff Masters , 3:40 PM GMT on October 05, 2016
<<Thanks to my advancing years and a low-stress lifestyle that features daily meditation, there’s not much that can move me to profanity—except the occasional low-skill driver who endangers my life on the road. But this morning while looking at the latest weather model runs, multiple very bad words escaped my lips. I’ve been a meteorologist for 35 years, and am not easily startled by a fresh set of model results: situations in 2005 and 1992 are the only ones that come to mind. However, this morning’s depiction by our top models—the GFS, European, and UKMET—of Matthew missing getting picked up by the trough to its north this weekend and looping back to potentially punish The Bahamas and Florida next week was worthy of profuse profanity. While a loop back towards Florida and The Bahamas next week is not yet a sure thing, the increasing trend of our top models in that direction is a strong indication that Matthew will be around for a very long time. Long-range forecasts of wind shear are not very reliable, but this morning’s wind shear forecast from the 00Z run of the European model does show a low to moderate shear environment over the Bahamas and waters surrounding South Florida late next week, potentially supportive of a hurricane--if Matthew survives the high wind shear of 50+ knots expected to affect the storm early next week. The bottom line is that it currently appears that Matthew will not recurve out to sea early next week, and The Bahamas and Florida may have to deal with the storm again next week.>>
- [b]Track forecasts from the five European model ensemble members [gray lines] that most closely match the operational run [red line] during the first 72 hours, starting at 00Z Wednesday, October 5, 2016. The red line is a version of the 00Z Wednesday operational model track that has been adjusted and calibrated using a proprietary technique to account for systemic model errors. Five out of six of these forecasts show Matthew barely missing landfall along the Southeast U.S. coast, and all of them show Matthew failing to recurve out to sea to the northeast. Disturbingly, two of the tracks show Matthew looping back to punish The Bahamas and crossing South Florida to enter the Gulf of Mexico. The high-probability cluster (grey lines) perform better than other ensemble members at forecast times of five days and beyond. Image credit: Climate Forecast Applications Network (CFAN).[/b]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Assembly_Building wrote: <<The Vehicle (originally Vertical) Assembly Building, or VAB, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is a [526 feet tall, 716 feet long & 518 feet wide] building designed to assemble large space vehicles, such as the massive Saturn V and the Space Shuttle. Future Space Launch System (SLS) will also be assembled there. The most extensive exterior hurricane damage occurred to VAB during the storm season of 2004, when [a Category 1-2] Hurricane Frances blew off 850 14 × 6 foot aluminum panels from the building, resulting in about 40,000 square feet of new openings in the sides. Twenty five additional panels were blown off the east side by the winds from Hurricane Jeanne just three weeks later. The total damage to space and military facilities around Cape Canaveral, Florida was reported at about $100 million. Damage caused by these hurricanes was still visible in 2007. Some of these panels are "punch-outs", designed to detach from the VAB when a large pressure differential is created on the outside vs. the inside. This allows for equalization, and helps protect the structural integrity of the building during rapid changes in pressure such as in tropical cyclones.>>