The vicious confluence
of weather anomalies in recent years — and, even just this year we've seen a rash of devastating floods, tornadoes and droughts — suggest that shifting climate patterns are having adverse and wide - ranging effects on our ecosystem.
And common sense and high school physics dictate that the extra latent heat in the system has to manifest itself somewhere, and I say it does in the form
of the weather anomaly pendulum swinging ever wider.
Not exact matches
It is however important to note that size
of the depreciation hints at an
anomaly with investors blaming poor
weather, the closure
of LA and Long Beach sea ports for delays in capital and a stronger dollar for decline in demand for US exports.
We have just faced a year
of freak
weather conditions around the country with winter tornadic activity in the Deep South, floods in the Pacific Northwest and a number
of other
weather anomalies that took down power lines, leaving home security systems futile.
Another
anomaly concerned the jet stream — the high - altitude, west - to - east river
of air that drives
weather patterns across the globe.
Responding to the extreme
weather that gripped the eastern coast
of the US this winter, Yannick Peings continued: «Unlike the 2012/2013 winter, this winter had rather low values
of the AMO index and the pattern
of sea surface temperature
anomalies was not consistent with the typical positive AMO pattern.
This phenomenon may have important implications for space
weather and may play an important role in the acceleration and scattering
of electrons and ions by these waves that can cause problems ranging from minor
anomalies to the complete failure
of critical satellites.
Annual fire
weather season length
anomaly maps for a subset
of known severe fire years are presented in Fig. 4 and
anomalies for all years are presented in Supplementary Figs 1 — 4 and annual ensemble - mean
anomaly data are available as Supplementary Data 1.
b, d, f and h show the change in frequency
of the number
of years with anomalous mean annual
weather conditions (> 1σ above historical mean) from 1996 to 2013 compared with the number
of anomalies observed from 1979 to 1996.
Last week there was a paper by Smith and colleagues in Science that tried to fill in those early years, using a model that initialises the heat content from the upper ocean — with the idea that the structure
of those
anomalies control the «
weather» progression over the next few years.
However, when a pattern
of extreme
weather persists for some time, it may be classed as an extreme climate event, perhaps associated with
anomalies in SSTs (such as El Niño).
I think Chicago is a bit
of an
anomaly with our
weather though, so hopefully I can continue to provide some winter outfit inspiration for some
of you!
Poor L.A., always getting beaten up either by
weather anomalies (Day After Tomorrow), giant meteors (Deep Impact), the Mayan doomsday calendar (2012)-- and yes, many alien invasions staking their claim on the City
of Angels.
«If you can eat or wear it, invest in it»... Long term 3 factors might drive food prices up instead: 1) Global warming and
weather anomalies; 2) 9 billion people in the planet by 2050 (and then more); 3) Increasing role
of biomasses in the renewable energy sector.
Some dogs adjust well to being on the road but changes in water, altitude,
weather, and surroundings, and the stress
of being crated can bring on physical and psychological
anomalies.
For example, Fear
of the Wolves players will have to contend with «deadly
anomalies and dynamically - changing
weather» alongside a day - night cycle.
«Some organizations, like Climate Central and extremists like Bill McGibben, hype every major
weather anomaly as proof
of the profound effects
of human - induced global warming.»
[Response: Hansen's analysis was for seasonal
anomalies — which are still averaging over a lot
of weather.
Today's extreme
anomalies occur as a result
of simultaneous contributions
of specific
weather patterns and global warming.»
Doesn't using a «baseline for
anomaly calculation» «equal to the time span being analyzed» decrease REAL extreme
weather event probabilities much the same way as using a sliding baseline minimizes the slope
of temperature increase?
Certainly the locations
of extreme
anomalies in any given case depend on specific
weather patterns.
All siding with its infinite growth paradigm, so I'm not surprised to see you writing counter-pieces to the harsh truth, which, as it stands, is that we have a pretty much dead and severely warming ocean, daily record - breaking jet - stream related
weather incidents, which in turn are caused by polar temperature
anomalies of +20 C as
of late.
What we exprience directly as
weather is also now a direct experience
of climate change when we undergo heat
anomalies.
@ 72 Kevin, To continue the anthropomorphism: My view
of the consensus is that the 2007 extent
anomaly was where «both the
weather and the climate wanted it to be».
All projections I've seen (e.g., UW CIG) indicate this region will remain pleasantly habitable for people for longer than other areas (think Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona) under the pressure
of increasing numbers and extremes
of weather «
anomalies.»
January's answer to Groundhog Day is Anthony Watts» annual attempt to equate the first cold
weather anomaly of the new year with the onset
of a new Ice Age.
In order to estimate the UHI effect I also looked up the relevant temperatures for HohenPeissenberg a nearby rural
weather station: 2.4 °C for the base period 1951 - 1980 and 6.4 °C for Nov 2014, i.e. a temperature
anomaly of 4.0 °C.
[Response: Estimates
of the error due to sampling are available from the very high resolution
weather models and from considerations
of the number
of degrees
of freedom in the annual surface temperature
anomaly (it's less than you think).
Each
of these is dependent on
weather, but
weather will result in larger temperature
anomalies as summer ends.
Sea ice
anomalies at the springtime maximum probably have more to do with what is happening to
weather over subarctic seas rather than what is happening to preconditioning
of sea ice in the Arctic Basin proper.
An
anomaly in global temperature maps - a possible sign
of climate change in Scandinavia - is due to a quirk
of weather and not a change in sea currents as previously thought, says a Danish researcher.
For example, some «skeptics» who don't understand
anomalies are worried that the dropout
of lots
of cold
weather stations in Siberia over the last few decades has biased the record warm.
Certainly many
of these are honest (albeit, stupid) attempts to get to the bottom
of what's driving
weather anomalies.
This article, for all apparent purposes, is an honest attempt to get to the heart
of the nationwide
weather anomalies and offer to a mystified public a possible explanation.
Second, recent
weather and temperature
anomalies have not been unusual and are not evidence
of a human effect on climate.
I mean, we have IPCC saying that the latest AGW predictions
of increased
weather anomalies due to climate change is hogwash.
This is part
of the problem, every bit
of weather is scrutinized, every multi yearly
weather anomaly, like Paris flooding has 10 %
of the manifested effects as «man made».
The majority
of storm or
anomalies of weather occur with the movement
of heat and cold to different areas which then generate events either not seen before or more violent.
I have been keeping notes on significant cold
weather anomalies since appox 2014 and I will paste them below, obviously the low solar activity is the principle cause
of these
anomalies but does human activity such as pollution - aerosals that humans emit make the conditions worse — that can not be proven but it's obvious that most
of the climate change, whether it's cooling or warming is natural not»cause d' by human activity.
But a new report by the Union
of Concerned Scientists shows our hot
weather isn't an
anomaly — things have been heating up across the Midwest for the past six decades.
And just as heating
anomalies in the tropics can influence
weather around the globe, large heating
anomalies in the Arctic basin may have ripple effects at lower latitudes, especially across the industrialized countries and population centers
of the Northern Hemisphere.
Though the ongoing climate engineering insanity can and does create short term highly toxic cool - doens, these
weather anomalies come at the cost
of an even worse overall planetary meltdown.
[The] popular belief that the world is cooling is reinforced by cold
weather anomalies in the United States in the summer
of 2009 and cold
anomalies in much
of the Northern Hemisphere in December 2009.
For example, the TV
weather announcer would provide the following style
of summation: «tomorrow will range from a cool
of 45 degrees in the morning to a high
of 73 degrees by late afternoon» - they don't state that tomorrow's temperatures will have an
anomaly of +0.03 degree over the average baseline by late afternoon.
Other types
of natural
anomalies include solar variability and
weather patterns such as the El Niño southern oscillation.
This wasn't a «
weather anomaly» but a result
of increasingly hot
weather.
Hidden within annual averages and expected variability are startling instances
of new temperature and rainfall records in many parts
of the world —
weather extremes that would once be considered
anomalies but that now risk becoming the new norm as the Earth heats up.
It included an animation
of the HADSST2 SST
anomalies for 1939 through 1947, using maps
of 12 - month average data to reduce the seasonal component and
weather noise.
Based on extensive Siberian snow cover during the fall, the researchers correctly forecasted cold
weather for much
of the U.S., while most other forecasters predicted warm
weather for the U.S.. For a comparison between predicted and observed temperature
anomalies, please see the following images: forecast temperature
anomaly Jan - Feb - Mar 2013 and observed temperature
anomaly Jan - Feb - Mar 2013, U.S. only.
The book presents the strong arguments over a wide range
of climate related issues — from energy, to natural climate factors, to
weather anomalies, to sea level rise, etc. — in an easy to understand manner.