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Post by flearider on May 3, 2018 19:22:20 GMT
Us middle-earth continentals are just beginning to see the "regular" moist GOM air masses overcoming the dry, cold northern flow. We only got 0.5 inches of rain in April .. 3 inches below normal. Gives meaning to how a colder climate might be a dryer climate at important times ... like spring. Don't think I like the implications. Followup. It's official. April 2018 for central Missouri is the driest April in our 127 year recorded record. That with the greatest number of April days with a minimum below 32 F. Cold and dry do seem to go together in our portion of the Midwest, as has been suggested for previous cold periods. Is it a weaker tropical-subtropical flow ... together with a stronger Arctic "push"? The orchard is filing a grievance, but maintaining a quiet English desperation. start setting up the green houses .. at least you will be able to grow something ..
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Post by Ratty on May 3, 2018 22:45:10 GMT
[ Snip ] Correlation is not causation Now where have I heard that before ...... ??
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Post by missouriboy on May 3, 2018 23:45:55 GMT
Not convinced. Cart before the horse theories. The sunspot count appears to reflect the energy of these combined processes at around 20 and 23.6 years, which necessarily has apparent periods of 0.5*T1, 0.5*T2, T1*T2/(T2+T1), and T1*T2/(T2-T1) years, or 10 years, 11.8 years, 10.8 years, and 131 years. The 11.8 year period is very close to 11.86 years, the orbital period of Jupiter. Correlation is not causation Correlation for a cause has its own set of rules.
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Post by Ratty on May 3, 2018 23:54:09 GMT
Somewhat related (I think I pinched this from someone here ..... where do I send the royalty payment?):
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Post by missouriboy on May 3, 2018 23:58:43 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on May 7, 2018 11:49:56 GMT
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Post by Ratty on May 7, 2018 12:04:26 GMT
Further down the exchange:
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Post by glennkoks on May 7, 2018 12:38:44 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on May 7, 2018 13:27:21 GMT
Your "one of the most pleasant springs on record…" is turning into Our "one of the driest springs on record". There are two types of luck. I'd love to see a quantification of moist air mass penetration across N America for this year. Haven't noticed any obvious persistent ridges (comparable to mid-2012), but the GOM gyre appears to have stayed largely south of us. So far, it's a "cool" drought.
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Post by nautonnier on May 7, 2018 16:18:29 GMT
Of course what is really meant is triple digit temperatures. With the low humidity less 'heat' is needed to raise atmospheric temperatures. Glen with high humidity and temperatures in the mid-80's is probably experiencing more 'heat' People should really learn about enthalpy
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Post by douglavers on May 7, 2018 21:00:32 GMT
We have had a really mild Autumn so far [Melbourne].
This is about to change. I anticipate the ski season is about to be launched with about a meter of fresh snow in the mountains over the back end of this week.
We are lighting up our wood fire on Thursday!
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Post by missouriboy on May 8, 2018 0:17:28 GMT
We have had a really mild Autumn so far [Melbourne]. This is about to change. I anticipate the ski season is about to be launched with about a meter of fresh snow in the mountains over the back end of this week. We are lighting up our wood fire on Thursday! They still allow those things over there?
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Post by Ratty on May 8, 2018 0:52:15 GMT
We have had a really mild Autumn so far [Melbourne]. This is about to change. I anticipate the ski season is about to be launched with about a meter of fresh snow in the mountains over the back end of this week. We are lighting up our wood fire on Thursday! They still allow those things over there? ... as long as we burn carbon neutral wood pellets from felled American forests.
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Post by missouriboy on May 8, 2018 2:54:08 GMT
They still allow those things over there? ... as long as we burn carbon neutral wood pellets from felled American forests. That's really green of y'all. Bull pies might be better. Between all of us we've probably got at least a decade worth of dried sh_t stacked up around our administrative centers.
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Post by douglavers on May 8, 2018 6:21:33 GMT
I think the reference is to the Drax Power Sation, UK's largest.
3 of 6 boilers have been converted to use woodships/sawdust, imported from N America.
A tree is felled, and moved to processing area Chipped, or saw dust utilised [call these biomass] Load biomass onto railway, transport to port. Make sure biomass is dry. Load onto ship, move ship across Atlantic Unload biomass onto train. Transport to Drax Dry before use [again] Burn
A Martian might wonder how much energy was used in delivering wood from tree to input at furnace. Wood is a much less energy dense fuel than coal. Was this accounted for in "CO2 Saving" calculation?!
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