Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog

No one is a failure who has friends.

Quoting Grothar:


Listen to you, 70's modern? How you doing, pot?

Doing good!
Well, it's more current than the 40's, where Geof and them seem stuck.
LOL

Quoting hydrus:
darn.

Just get out your sleeping bag and lay on the

Quoting Grothar:


Thanks, mossy. Actually, astronomy has been a hobby of mine since I was a kid (and no wise-cracks, hydrus) I still get a kick looking at the skies. Bad thing is, at my age and can't pull my head far enough back anymore.

Just lay on the ground (snow?) in your sleeping bag!

Quoting Ossqss:


Interestingly, I have watched T-storms form in close proximity to the interstate in my neck of the woods. Old timers tell you that did not happen there prior. I can only imagine how paving, net net, has impacted weather. Let alone the unimaginable things that all of the wireless communications/energy emissions that did not exist way back when, provide. Think about the Satellite, cell towers/phones, microwaves, radar and on and on.

Just sayin, there is much more to the story that has not been evaluated, understood, or modeled in depth, but its still cold in Florida, in my garage, as I type, so Gnight :)

Yeah, good point!
I think that we all agree, that Climate is changing.
The reasons for that, are what gets us all flummoxed!

Quoting GeoffreyWPB:
No one is a failure who has friends.

Word!!! Nuff said.

Quoting PSLFLCaneVet:



LOL. Here's yer 70's:

That's more like it...
seems like just yesterday.................

Quoting DoverWxwatchter:
Maine milder than central Florida.

Baffin/Newfoundland Bay & Hudson bay aren't near as froze as they should be. It shows in last weeks SST anomolies.. It sets up a high that usually isn't there.

Freeze already so I can get my winter back from Maine!

Quoting flsky:

Just get out your sleeping bag and lay on the
Just lay on the ground (snow?) in your sleeping bag!

Sure, easy for you to say. They will find my body frozen in the morning.

Quoting Jeff9641:
AGW is a Democratic scar tactic. Yeah we have some warming but not to the degree as some on here insist with their jam it down your throat tactic.

"Some warming"?

Just three days ago NASA reported that the "meteorological year" spanning from December 2009 to November 2010 was the warmest in that agency's 131 years of record keeping. This in light of A) the current minimum of solar irradiance, the deepest in a century, which is having its maximum cooling effect, and B) the strong La Nina which got underway last summer, and has helped to hold temperatures down.

Get that? NASA says that, in spite of two major cooling motivators, the planet has just gone through its warmest 12-month period in the past 1,572. As the NASA report states: "Contrary to frequent assertions that global warming slowed in the past decade... global warming has proceeded in the current decade just as fast as in the prior two decades."

While I'm at it and before I go, I wanted to add a piece of data someone asked me for the other day: US record daily highs outnumbered record daily lows for the first 11 months of the year 11,337 to 3,436, or roughly 3.29 to 1. By comparison, here are the ratios of record highs to record lows over the past five decades:

1960s - 0.77:1
1970s - 0.78:1
1980s - 1.14:1
1990s - 1.36:1
2000s - 2.04:1
2010s - 3.29:1 (to date)

Notice any trends?

So, no throat-jamming. Just facts. Feel free to use them--or ignore them--as you will...

Quoting GeoffreyWPB:
No one is a failure who has friends.

+1

Dang it, I seem to post right when the page changes.

Quoting Grothar:


I don't think a 15 watt bulb puts out much heat.

Yes, but there are a total of 19 7 watts in the ceiling fans + a whole bunch of other little ones (there was a payout in going from the 13 watt to the 7 watt... could even quantify it with the smart meter data... instead of relying on the bills).

Really, even last year when it was in the 20's, my temperature went up about 2 degrees until lights out. And then plunged from 72 to 66 overnight without heat (hint... if moving to a system that uses water for heating make sure you can isolate it in the deep south!).

Quoting Grothar:


Sure, easy for you to say. They will find my body frozen in the morning.

Not if you quaff some anti-freeze first....

Quoting pottery:

Doing good!
Well, it's more current than the 40's, where Geof and them seem stuck.
LOL

You know the old saying, pot. "It is OK to look back; just don't stare." I am sure GeoffWPB remembers the 30's and 40's better than I, but they were nice times. Those songs bring back many fond memories of nices days.

Quoting DoverWxwatchter:
Paint the asphalt white and use black lines might help.

Actually Doc has a blog entry on the topic of the bad measurements

Watt's up Doc

Quoting DoverWxwatchter:
Some record highs were set in Maine today.

Not totally unexpected, with that big low blowing in warm air off the Gulf Stream. NB and NS in Canada are getting a taste of it now.

Quoting Neapolitan:

"Some warming"?

Just three days ago NASA reported that the "meteorological year" spanning from December 2009 to November 2010 was the warmest in that agency's 131 years of record keeping. This in light of A) the current minimum of solar irradiance, the deepest in a century, which is having its maximum cooling effect, and B) the strong La Nina which got underway last summer, and has helped to hold temperatures down.

Get that? NASA says that, in spite of two major cooling motivators, the planet has just gone through its warmest 12-month period in the past 1,572. As the NASA report states: "Contrary to frequent assertions that global warming slowed in the past decade... global warming has proceeded in the current decade just as fast as in the prior two decades."

While I'm at it and before I go, I wanted to add a piece of data someone asked me for the other day: US record daily highs outnumbered record daily lows for the first 11 months of the year 11,337 to 3,436, or roughly 3.29 to 1. By comparison, here are the ratios of record highs to record lows over the past five decades:

1960s - 0.77:1
1970s - 0.78:1
1980s - 1.14:1
1990s - 1.36:1
2000s - 2.04:1
2010s - 3.29:1 (to date)

Notice any trends?

So, no throat-jamming. Just facts. Feel free to use them--or ignore them--as you will...

Trends ??
Nah!
Those aren't trends, those are somehow erroneous numbers.
Everyone knows that.
NASA works for Big Business....

Quoting Grothar:


You know the old saying, pot. "It is OK to look back; just don't stare." I am sure GeoffWPB remembers the 30's and 40's better than I, but they were nice times. Those songs bring back many fond memories of nices days.

I'm not that old. I like history, old songs...long before I was around.

1970's , I think I remember that :) out

Quoting PSLFLCaneVet:



LOL. Here's yer 70's:

Thanks for the Billy Joel. A musical genius, in my humble opinion.

Quoting GeoffreyWPB:


I'm not that old. I like history, old songs...long before I was around.

Me too!
"they dont do them like that, anymore" is true. Especially music.

Quoting DoverWxwatchter:
A few places in Greenland are warmer than Central Florida right now.  As in this location.

I'm surprised that this airmass is as cold as it is without Hudson's Bay properly frozen.

Wow 39º in Greenland. I'm at 35.6º in East Central FL.

Quoting Skyepony:


Wow 39º in Greenland. I'm at 35.6º in East Central FL.

LOL that's incredible!!

Quoting pottery:

Me too!
"they dont do them like that, anymore" is true. Especially music.

Like this?

Strangely enough, I am at 24 degrees.

But then, that's Celcius (74F)
Very nice!

Grothar:

Actually, at 71 degrees right now in the house... 70 when I got home and no heating runs.

In addition to the lights

1) 1 daughter took a shower
2) opening and closing refrigerator (which generates overall heat since the heat must be removed from the frig at less than 100% efficiency... think about it)
3) 0.12 kwH of microwave activity (I am kill-a-watting owing to the stupidity of lack of Texas net metering and have to figure out a way to use power during peak).
4) computers.

No ceiling fans on I hope.

All that stuff added energy, enough to heat the house by 1 F.

It was 2 F before I downsized to the 7 and 10 watt bulbs though.

7.8 C right now

Quoting Skyepony:


Wow 39º in Greenland. I'm at 35.6º in East Central FL.

OK - that's it. I'm moving to Maine or Greenland. (I live in the central FL Keys).

Regarding all the music links lately - anyone got the "Girl from Ipanema goes to Greenland".
8>)

- thanks Sky

Quoting flsky:

Thanks for the Billy Joel. A musical genius, in my humble opinion.

Thank you sky. I'm glad you liked it.

Quoting Grothar:


Like this?

Nice!
Brenda Lee, Connie Francis, and a whole lot of them that I cant remember the names of.
Broke my heart, all of them......

Quoting EnergyMoron:
Grothar:

Actually, at 71 degrees right now in the house... 70 when I got home and no heating runs.

In addition to the lights

1) 1 daughter took a shower
2) opening and closing refrigerator (which generates overall heat since the heat must be removed from the frig at less than 100% efficiency... think about it)
3) 0.12 kwH of microwave activity (I am kill-a-watting owing to the stupidity of lack of Texas net metering and have to figure out a way to use power during peak).
4) computers.

No ceiling fans on I hope.

All that stuff added energy, enough to heat the house by 1 F.

It was 2 F before I downsized to the 7 and 10 watt bulbs though.

7.8 C right now

All I can say is, I am glad you were not my science teacher. Got this thing down to the Celsius, eh? Impressive.

Negative NAO

It's going to get warmer this winter folks... wouldn't be surprised if this ain't the coldest it gets down south....

But wouldn't be surprised if the above is erroneous either...

but la nina is la nina and the NAO is the NAO.

37.8. It's a mite chilly.

Quoting DoverWxwatchter:
A few places in Greenland are warmer than Central Florida right now.  As in this location.

I'm surprised that this airmass is as cold as it is without Hudson's Bay properly frozen.

I've spoken to a few visitors from IL, IN, ME recently in ECF and they're VERY pissed off w/our weather.

Quoting Grothar:


All I can say is, I am glad you were not my science teacher. Got this thing down to the Celsius, eh? Impressive.

Yes, I am ruthless against all violators of the first and second laws (especially when it involves commercial grade software, but I cannot go there).

Quoting Grothar:


All I can say is, I am glad you were not my science teacher. Got this thing down to the Celsius, eh? Impressive.

Howdy Grothar:

Let's talk summer cooking (I know, not seasonal) since much more important on bills.

Obviously I do a lot of pre-calculation and was surprised that my improvements to AC were not doing as well as expected when I first did them.

Okay, I should have dropped to 1,200 kWH per summer for AC and was about at 2,200 kWH. Watt happened? (pun intended).

Well, energy for cooking is about 900 kWH for the summer months.

That darn first law... U = q + w

Built and outdoor kitchen.

AC is working like planned now and quality of life is also better with the man cave.

Of course, folks back in the 1800's had enough sense not to cook indoors in the deep south US.

Nice here in the blog tonight. Seems like everyone's getting along talking about cold weather and good music.

Quoting flsky:
Nice here in the blog tonight. Seems like everyone's getting along talking about cold weather and good music.

Seconded!

Quoting DoverWxwatchter:
There was a time this afternoon when Great Falls, Montana was 8 degrees warmer than Orlando at the same time.

Northerners generally are surprised at just how cold our ~25 feels down here. To a yankee, (due to what humidity there is?) it just feels colder than the same temp back home.

My NWS forecast is for a 20 F low. Would not surprise me if we dip a little below that given this: