BS: Climate change and TV weathermen

22 Jun 05 - 11:18 AM (#1506986)
Subject: BS: Climate change and TV weathermen
From: Donuel

Todays forcast was for the high 80's. It is only the low 60's today at noon.

It seems that forcasts now are becoming more divergent from the weather. They are not just wrong but are wrong by huge magnitudes.

I listened to a weatherman on the Coast to Coast radio show who despite going to all the national TV weathermman propganda conventions chose to believe his own eyes. After studying the weather photos from space for over 15 years he sees an artificiality to cloud formations that appear even to the untrained eye to seem unnatural and virtually impossible. Right angle cloud formations, jet trails that remain for 8 or more hours etc.

* "Climate change" is the new politically acceptable phrase for what was formerly known as run away global warming.

On thing about the weather is that it keeps changing but what is it doing in your neck of the woods?

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22 Jun 05 - 11:33 AM (#1507007)
Subject: RE: BS: Climate change and TV weathermen
From: Bill D

I see it now...those "cloud dissolvers" are working backwards. It's all done with smoke & mirrors and a suggestible populace.
Where is he seeing those right angle clouds?
(My weather program, WeatherPulse, is usually pretty good...it gets its forecasts from weather.com)

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22 Jun 05 - 11:35 AM (#1507010)
Subject: RE: BS: Climate change and TV weathermen
From: Rapparee

It just kinda sits here on top of us.

I use wunderground.com myself....

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22 Jun 05 - 11:44 AM (#1507020)
Subject: RE: BS: Climate change and TV weathermen
From: Peace

Climate's what ya expect; weather's what ya get.

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22 Jun 05 - 01:48 PM (#1507123)
Subject: RE: BS: Climate change and TV weathermen
From: Donuel

Said with the sound of of a Guru.

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22 Jun 05 - 02:19 PM (#1507159)
Subject: RE: BS: Climate change and TV weathermen
From: Mooh

All in all it's a fine day for weather. Mooh.

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22 Jun 05 - 02:42 PM (#1507174)
Subject: RE: BS: Climate change and TV weathermen
From: GUEST

It's all relative ...

The standard keeps changing. When the typical pollution index for a given day is above what's considered 'safe', then that pollution index becomes the standard and anything above that becomes unsafe. Same with average temperature.

Where I am, winter has taken on a whole new perspective. When I was a kid, you could count on enough snow to make it worthwhile to buy a sled for funtime activities. Now, we're "lucky" if we get any accumulations over an inch. And in January, you could bet you'd be freezing your gonads off if you spent any considerable amount of time outside on any given day. Now, we get maybe a cold snap below freezing that lasts for a few days, then it's back to rollercoaster temperature changes.

The weather is all screwed up.

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22 Jun 05 - 04:57 PM (#1507289)
Subject: RE: BS: Climate change and TV weathermen
From: Donuel

Breaking news: Today in Denver Colorado 1 foot of hail fell. Many people there are being treated for hypothermia in the midst of their current heat wave.

That is one heck of a changed standard.

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22 Jun 05 - 05:09 PM (#1507299)
Subject: RE: BS: Climate change and TV weathermen
From: gnu

Yeees bye. Be da look 'a dat sky, I'd say we're in fer some wedder.

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22 Jun 05 - 05:34 PM (#1507318)
Subject: RE: BS: Climate change and TV weathermen
From: Shanghaiceltic

At this time of the year we get a period which the Chinese call the 'Plum rains' It should last for about 3-4 weeks.

When I came over to live here in 1999 the Plum Rains were often very heavy and regular every day. In the last three years we have hardly had any Plum Rains.

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22 Jun 05 - 05:47 PM (#1507333)
Subject: RE: BS: Climate change and TV weathermen
From: gnu

Any plums?

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22 Jun 05 - 10:29 PM (#1507630)
Subject: RE: BS: Climate change and TV weathermen
From: Mooh

I prefer weatherwomen, weatherchicks, weatherbroads, weatherbabes, weatherhotties...oops, I spoke my mind again, I should know better. I just looked outside and it's still doin' the same weather it was doin' an hour ago when I came home from band practice. It's always doin' weather out there.

Peace, Mooh.

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23 Jun 05 - 08:48 PM (#1508468)
Subject: RE: BS: Climate change and TV weathermen
From: The Fooles Troupe

Garg,

if anyone modified the weather, the USA is the most likely culprit!

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24 Jun 05 - 07:36 PM (#1509085)
Subject: RE: BS: Climate change and TV weathermen
From: Rumncoke

We have had some really scorching weather for a little while - here on the South coast of England, so everyone going to the Glastonbery festival took sun screen and expected glorious sun and blue skies - then when most of the people had arrived and set up their tents - WHAM - thunder, lightning and torrential rain, flash floods, several feet of water, mud -

If there is someone in charge of the weather they have a sense of humour that is rather worrying.

We must have got too used to the idea that EVERY bank holiday was going to be wet so we might as well stay at home, so now this is a new ploy to tempt us out so we get either heat stroke or hypothermia, or better still - both.

Anne

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24 Jun 05 - 09:20 PM (#1509136)
Subject: RE: BS: Climate change and TV weathermen
From: Donuel

gargoyle has something there. Afterall, Russia did offer Australia assistence with what they called climate control technology when Australia had terrible fires and dust storms about 10? years ago.

Oz said thanks but no thanks.

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24 Jun 05 - 10:14 PM (#1509176)
Subject: RE: BS: Climate change and TV weathermen
From: SINSULL

http://ccc.atmos.colostate.edu/~hail/pdfs/Hail%20_Hazard.pdf

Everything you ever wanted to know (?????) about hail in Colorado. Interesting point made by researcher: with the proliferation of cell phones and population growth, hail storms - which are usually localized (less than 1 mile wide) and generally short-lived (less than 15 minutes) are now reported more frequently giving the impression of a significant increase in occurrences.

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