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Post by Ratty on Jan 16, 2018 0:25:48 GMT
Anecdote: In about 1976. we had a fireplace installed. IN SOUTH-EAST QUEENSLAND !!!! Do most homes in SE Queensland even have backup heating? Reverse-cycle airconditioning in my immediate area. "South-East Queensland" is difficult to define. This map helps a little but I think most people would visualise a much broader area when they hear the name. In some parts, slow combustion wood fires would be popular. One place we lived (in Brisbane), we had an oil heater. I cleaned ice off a windscreen occasionally in Winter. Brrrrr ..... The BoM seems to regard this as SEQ; it's the map I look at for rainfall:
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Post by glennkoks on Jan 16, 2018 1:55:01 GMT
Winter storm warning in effect for Houston? Schools all canceled. Complete and utter madness!
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Post by glennkoks on Jan 16, 2018 1:56:43 GMT
Currently the NWS has us under a Winter Weather Advisory for possible freezing rain/sleet/snow. If it materializes it will be the third time Southeast Texas has received frozen precipitation this year. Probably not "unprecedented" but a very, very rare occurrence in my region. After over estimating the low temperatures several nights in a row by two degrees each night the NWS missed the low temperature last night by a full 7 degrees. Forecast was for a low of 43 and it got down to 36. The winter of 2017-2018 has been very similar to what we experienced in the 1970's. Anecdote: In about 1976. we had a fireplace installed. IN SOUTH-EAST QUEENSLAND !!!! Rather odd that the coldest winter on record for Southeast Texas was 1976!
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 16, 2018 9:22:28 GMT
Winter storm warning in effect for Houston? Schools all canceled. Complete and utter madness! Possibly of more interest is the cold sea warnings all along the North Gulf coast and more interestingly around the southern tip of Florida and along the East coast of Florida. The colder ocean temps can be seen here. These temperatures will not augur well for NW Europe as the Gulf Stream/North Atlantic Drift will be a lot cooler for Europe than normal in Spring.
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Post by Ratty on Jan 16, 2018 9:30:33 GMT
I might use that projection to show some of my doubters that there still IS ice in the Arctic. After all, it is NOAA, right?
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Post by nautonnier on Jan 16, 2018 9:55:17 GMT
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Post by blustnmtn on Jan 16, 2018 11:28:48 GMT
To paraphrase “The Gipper”: The trouble with our CAGW friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so. ...
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Post by Ratty on Jan 16, 2018 12:10:55 GMT
A comparison I used on a site from which I have been banned. I spent some time looking for a few countries that I could add together to equal Arctic ice; it didn't go down well. I have more time now to annoy others ...... ( not here though!)
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 16, 2018 16:35:47 GMT
I might use that projection to show some of my doubters that there still IS ice in the Arctic. After all, it is NOAA, right? They use "masks" I hear.
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 16, 2018 16:47:06 GMT
Winter storm warning in effect for Houston? Schools all canceled. Complete and utter madness! Welcome to the new southern boundaries of the Mid-West.
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Post by sigurdur on Jan 17, 2018 2:43:23 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Jan 17, 2018 3:48:39 GMT
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Post by glennkoks on Jan 17, 2018 4:33:55 GMT
The coldest of the winter so far for my part of the world. We had a mixture of freezing rain, sleet and snow all day. Houston was pretty much closed down and school has been canceled for the second day in a row due to icy roads. Currently 26F.
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Post by missouriboy on Jan 17, 2018 4:47:43 GMT
Dhaka is located at 23.8 N latitude and recorded 2,6 C. Houston is at 29.7 N latitude and recorded -3.3 C. Opposite sides of the globe. They closed schools here too today (39 N latitude). Our low was -18 C. Wussies!
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Post by sigurdur on Jan 17, 2018 5:22:30 GMT
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