vauss
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Post by vauss on Sept 11, 2008 22:01:51 GMT
Twawki, I would say no, not yet. Since we arrived in 1990, the retreat of the Worthington glacier is quite noticeable. At least a couple of hundred feet, if not more. I usually take my son up there to go hiking every year, but didn't make it this year. I will check it out on my trip to Anchorage in early October. Unless things get _really_ chilly, I think glacier advances will take several years to notice. Vauss Hey Vauss if the snow is now staying through summer then are you getting much glacial growth there?
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Post by twawki on Sept 11, 2008 23:33:17 GMT
Thanks Vauss much appreciated Twawki
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Post by Ole Doc Sief on Sept 16, 2008 2:09:24 GMT
More evidence of Northern Hemisphere cooling, from KSTP News As of yesterday, 81 percent of corn was in the dent stage, compared with 61 percent last week, 99 percent last year at this time and an 87 percent average. Corn was 6 percent mature, compared with 2 percent last week, 61 percent last year and a 31 percent average. Soybeans were 70 percent turning yellow, compared with 41 percent last week, 94 percent last year and an 83 percent average. Eighteen percent of soybeans were dropping leaves, compared with 5 percent last week, 71 percent last year and a 49 percent average. kstp.com/article/stories/S580601.shtml?cat=206This is abysmal! Winter wheat did ok, but that's not what most farmers planted. That Average quoted is a fifty year average. Luckily we have a forecast of highs in mid-seventies this week but with lows in 50's there is not a lot of hope for anywhere near last year's yields.
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Post by pidgey on Sept 16, 2008 2:51:23 GMT
We're looking at dropping into the upper 40s (F) here in Tulsa tonight. It's been pretty doggone cool here, too--far cooler than it has in years.
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Post by tacoman25 on Sept 16, 2008 4:34:34 GMT
Here along the Front Range of Colorado, it's been a very cool September so far. DIA (Denver International Airport) is running about -6.5 below normal so far.
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Post by bluebristolian on Sept 16, 2008 11:54:00 GMT
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Post by peakoil on Sept 16, 2008 12:07:06 GMT
that article doesn't say anything about cold winter on the way.
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Post by txwxchx on Sept 16, 2008 12:32:05 GMT
I observed parhelia (sun dogs) at my location yesterday at approximately 6:30 pm - in North Central Texas. A matched set, without tails, evincing a beautiful rainbow... hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/atmos/halo22.htmlwww.islandnet.com/~see/weather/elements/sundog.htmI considered it to be significant to see them when summer is not yet over, and I actually pointed them out to my husband as a indicator of diffuse ice in the upper atmosphere. I'm not sure how rare it is to see them at this latitude at this time of year, but I do know it that this particular phenomenon is not usually experienced until winter in my location.
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Post by twawki on Sept 17, 2008 10:11:01 GMT
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Post by twawki on Sept 17, 2008 11:35:38 GMT
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Post by twawki on Sept 19, 2008 8:55:27 GMT
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Post by pidgey on Sept 19, 2008 14:56:35 GMT
We're probably going to get hammered this winter. And it's sure looking like we could end up with a La Nina again: weatherclimatelink.blogspot.com/(Read The Great Wall has Risen)
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Post by Belushi TD on Sept 19, 2008 19:16:04 GMT
Termination dust all over the Chugach Mountains. Down below the 4,000 foot level, I think. At this rate, we might have snow by the begining of October.
Belushi TD
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Post by ron on Sept 19, 2008 20:06:18 GMT
OK, I surrender. What's "termination dust?"
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vauss
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Post by vauss on Sept 19, 2008 20:38:38 GMT
Ron, Snow line in the mountains around you. Summer is being "terminated" by the "dust" (snow) on the mountains. Same thing happening in Valdez, although we may be a bit lower than 4,000 now. Hard to tell with all the fog and low clouds. Snow tires went on my car on Monday. I'm ready! :-) OK, I surrender. What's "termination dust?"
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