A few weeks ago, the government’s top experts told us that the drought was just going to get worse.
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This morning the Weather Channel was whining about low water levels for the Great Lakes. I find that hard to believe with the past winter and spring being quite snowy in that region.
I have seen three of them this week and they look like they are full to the brim
That would make them below normal to the Weather Channel! They were hoping the lakes would be overflowing so they could claim CAGW was causing drastic flooding!
TWC only reports the extremes, no matter what reality shows!
I found a hazardous weather advisory from the NWS that contained this:
A TYPICAL SUMMER PATTERN WILL LINGER OVER THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN
REGION THROUGH NEXT WEEK…WITH ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
DEVELOPING EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW OF THESE STORMS EACH
DAY MAY BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE…BRINGING THE POSSIBILITY OF
DAMAGING WINDS…CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING…AND LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL.
Typical weather patterns are now considered hazardous!
This June so far has been frighteningly normal. Normal weather spells the end! We are all going to die!
Look into the effects Ice Age rebound has on low water levels on the North shores of the Great Lakes and at the same time study the equal but opposite effect that the same Ice Age rebound has on water levels on the Southern shores of the Great Lakes. Don’t let the warmest scam you.
The western side of Lake Superior is lifting and causing the lake to drain out. There has been a reduction in moisture over the last decade, the Army Corps of Engineers deepened a trench in the Detroit River so deeper draft ships could sail in it which causes more water to drain out, and this is not new it has been low before.
I found this at Bishop Hill and thought it does a good job of explaining the working of UEA and MET:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/seanthomas/100222487/when-it-comes-to-climate-change-we-have-to-trust-our-scientists-because-they-know-lots-of-big-scary-words/
Folks … for your amusement. Note the table at the bottom with high / low and long term average.
Enjoy.
Click to access GLWL-CurrentMonth-Meters.pdf
Most meteorologists tend to be skeptical of AGW theories, based on their own understanding of weather. However here’s a very interesting statement from the American Meteorological Society on the subject:
http://www.ametsoc.org/policy/2012climatechange.html
This would probably be a good time to point out that there’s a difference between next week’s weather predictions and projections of long-term climate change. In the American West we’ve been in a pattern of long-term drought for a good number of years now. Yet last week, Denver had floods in the streets.
All weather is idiosyncratic. Overall patterns can’t be illustrated in a given week’s weather events. And I would offer the sweeping generalization that what we’re likely to be seeing in the coming years, in the American West as well as in the temperate world at large, is an emerging pattern of increasing drought punctuated by occasional dramatic heavy rains and flood events.
Ask your local weather person whether they agree. It would be interesting to find out, wouldn’t it? (They do usually respond to email queries.)