[Vision2020] Thunderstorm

[Art Deco]

During the last forty years I've lived in Idaho, I've seem on occasion
thunder and lightning in every month of the year.

Global warming hypothesis is supported by the global average of various
factors, not just what happens around Moscow, Idaho.

w.


On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Craine Kit <kcraine at frontier.com> wrote:

> Thanks Paul. Sounds reasonable to me, although I associate thunder with
> much warmer air meeting a cold front with a larger drop in temperature.
>
> Kit
>
> On Dec 8, 2012, at 12:13 PM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > It could just be, you know, weather.
> >
> > The jet stream happens to be flowing right over the top of us right now,
> pretty much north to south.  We've had warmer air around us (relatively
> speaking) for a while now.  Maybe that caused it?  We're on the edge of a
> huge cold front that is hitting (or is about to hit) the Midwest.
> >
> > I'm sure the climate scientists have attributed this to global warming
> somewhere along the line, and by assumption excess CO2.
> >
> > Personally, looking back on all the winters I've spent here, the only
> trend I see is unpredictability.  We get bad winters, mild winters, winters
> where it gets really cold around the holidays but not much snow, winters
> where it's OK in December but a snowy mess in February, winters where not
> much happens, etc.  I haven't found an easy way to predict them, especially
> in ENSO-neutral winters like this one.
> >
> > Does anyone else see a trend I'm missing?
> >
> > Joe: am I allowed to repeat what I've seen on the weather channel and
> reminisce about past winters, or do I need to be a bonafide climate
> scientist for that?  I'm still trying to figure out the rules.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > On 12/07/2012 09:23 PM, Craine Kit wrote:
> >> I'm looking for some thoughts on tonight's thunderstorm.
> >>
> >> I've lived in Moscow all of my life. A thunderstorm in December is
> beyond my experience.  I also have a bit  of educational background on
> climate, meteorology, and thunderstorms. Having a thunderstorm in the
> middle of a snowstorm is really weird.
> >>
> >> So what do all of you out there (especially Ted) think of tonight's
> storm. Is this global warming, the gods upset over the atheist sign south
> of town, or what?
> >>
> >> Kit Craine
> >>
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