A few roads are closed in the winter time. They are usually opened again in April or May with snow plowers.We get it here from time to time. Usually not wks but several days isn't uncommon. 40"+ of snow is a show stopper.
Didn't we have 'the beast from the east' this time last year?
Even weirder, snow in WA on the same weekend. The Stirling Range hasn't seen snow for 50 years. This is the earliest snow ever in that part of the world.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-20/snow-in-albany-western-australia-record/11032616
For the first time in history of weather forecasts in Norway: Tornado warning for Southern Norway, tomorrow June 6th.
That's good. I suspect some of these 'unprecedented weather conditions' reported in the past few years will be remembered quite clearly to have happened similarly in 1978 or 1991 by those same old timers. The reporting and forecasting of weather has become very statistic-heavy since the digital revolution, and it certainly makes for a lot of overblown dramatic response across social media and the like. Human perception of what weather even is has altered greatly in that time. I'm much more in tune with seasonal change having been outdoors at night as often as possible over the past 7 or so years. I've become far more cognisant of the planetary context this way, and weather cycles become fairly routine when you get that cosmic perspective in mind. Rare events are interesting but in no way worrying, to me anyway.a specialist who is historically familiar with the region is interpreting weather patterns
The Stirling Range is south of Perth, Western Australia. It is beautiful. I am very keen to camp out there for a week or two.Beautiful pictures in that link. I heard about the early snowfall on ABC Sydney, and I have to admit to being initially surprised at the concept of snow in Australia :sorry: (I learn new stuff every day ), and they were talking about the skiing. Also; I think they referred to them as "the Snowy Mountains" a lot, as opposed to the Stirling Range - is this the same set of mountains they would have been talking about?
Wow... did the tornado materialise?
Aldiss wrote that.edit; Asimov's Heliconia trilogy, part 3...
That's good. I suspect some of these 'unprecedented weather conditions' reported in the past few years will be remembered quite clearly to have happened similarly in 1978 or 1991 by those same old timers. The reporting and forecasting of weather has become very statistic-heavy since the digital revolution, and it certainly makes for a lot of overblown dramatic response across social media and the like. Human perception of what weather even is has altered greatly in that time. I'm much more in tune with seasonal change having been outdoors at night as often as possible over the past 7 or so years. I've become far more cognisant of the planetary context this way, and weather cycles become fairly routine when you get that cosmic perspective in mind. Rare events are interesting but in no way worrying, to me anyway.
I do wonder at times what the warming trend is doing to general human physiology, if anything. The perceived increase in flu virus casualties this year locally has the chicken littles scurrying about claiming we're more at risk of a disease apocalypse any day now - usually the same people who refuse to immunise their children. Go figure.
edit; Asimov's Heliconia trilogy, part 3, has a team of earth scientists stationed in orbit above a primitive society on a distant planet observing their rapid physiological alteration as their binary solar seasons clunk over. In that third story, the inhabitants who are rich, wealthy and fat succumb inevitably to The Fat Death, whereby most perish, but the few who survive are so physically diminished that they remain gaunt for the remainder of their lives, initiating a return to the dark age story one (Helliconia Spring) emerges out of. Fantastic story of cyclic generational change and adaptation of both physiology and mythology. Might be relevant to our current concerns about the warming trend.
Helliconia: Fall
I suspect some of these 'unprecedented weather conditions' reported in the past few years will be remembered quite clearly to have happened similarly in 1978 or 1991 by those same old timers. The reporting and forecasting of weather has become very statistic-heavy since the digital revolution, and it certainly makes for a lot of overblown dramatic response across social media and the like. Human perception of what weather even is has altered greatly in that time. I'm much more in tune with seasonal change having been outdoors at night as often as possible over the past 7 or so years. I've become far more cognisant of the planetary context this way, and weather cycles become fairly routine when you get that cosmic perspective in mind. Rare events are interesting but in no way worrying, to me anyway.
Yes. Carbon trading seems to have been invented as yet another money market. Someone is doing nicely out of it.A lot of people have experienced various magnitudes and types of weather over their allotted time on this Planet INT21, and some people have sat down and questioned this insistence on anthropological origins.
To lay the blame on humanity, rather than industry, indicates to me a type of Stockholm syndrome that a large number of our populace has welcomed. We have had, until now, little choice in what is used in construction of homes, highways, factories, Highway systems, transport, and the fuels that have been required for this outcome.
We all agree that among other things, CO2 is a byproduct of all these products processes.
I'd like to point out the obvious and indicate that CO2 is 0.0412% of the atmosphere, and that it isn't any toxicity or harmful effect of CO2 that is altering our climate.
It is what it, and the effect that many other compounds have on normal radiation from our Star that is causing the problem.
This effect is causing our oceans and atmosphere to heat up. Luckily, our atmosphere can rid itself of 52% of that ambient heat, but, our oceans can't - It can only rid itself of 12% of Its ambient heat, and our oceans are responsible for our weather/climate.
Now, having come this far, I would like to indicate that I do acknowledge that the climate is changing, But I cannot accept that CO2 is the boogieman that some organisations and some people would have us believe.
I know that over the last century, our oceans have been progressively warming, that we have been tipping uncountable types of shite into them, and that because our oceans are vast, we don't see the effect that our rubbish has.
Our Governments are a little vague with that...
While our governments have been dedicated to CO2, and have been levying and taxing us, because industry will pass that sort of thing on...the oceans, which supply us with 75% of our renewable oxygen have been warming, have been dying, have been retaining heat which has reached our poles, which has altered our climate and weather, and which has been expanding due to waters penchant for that sort of thing and flooding low lying areas, causing biggest mobs of people to seek refuge elsewhere.
I, rather cynically believe that CO2, for certain people, is a nice little earner, and that is why the focus on CO2, rather than a dire need to focus on our Magnificent Oceans and Seas.
Your opinion may vary.