In defense of a snowy day
"A lot of people like snow. I think it's unnecessary water freezing," comedian Carleena quipped. I can live without under 20, but I don't mind the snow. It is an insulator that protects plants from extreme cold. This is a water supply: the melting snow provides fuel for the miraculous rebirth of spring. You can play in the frozen water!
You cannot surf in a hurricane storm surge, or climb an active volcano (unwise) or enjoy a heat wave. Choose your poison-any day of the week, I will bring a bunch of white flake fun.
2015 is the last Thanksgiving Day in the MSP metropolitan area. There is snow (1.2 inches) on the ground. Although there is snow on Sunday, this Thanksgiving Day will bring a crisp green (ish) lawn. The temperature on Tuesday and Wednesday will cool down later in the next week after they are in their 40s. The weather is cold enough for it to snow, but lacks moisture, just like the rapid wind whizzing through Oregon. The water in the south has no chance to bubble to the north.
I will keep the Doppler idling and hope to find something soon. Now: Everything is quiet.
Beautify the lake effect. The Minnesota Arrowhead may be covered with a layer of snow, and by Saturday night, there will be a few inches of snow downwind from Lake Superior.
It could be worse. Considering that we can easily reach hip depth in the rafting, near-average highs and precious light snow are a very good time for Thanksgiving travelers.
Is the snow potential increasing in early December? The core of the rapids is expected to sink south of Minnesota and form a trough of low pressure in the western United States, a) possibility. Deep cold air in place and b). If you believe in the latest NOAA GFS solution above, tracking of humid storms south of Minnesota will increase. We will wait and see. We are due.
How the "Atmospheric River" flooded British Columbia and caused floods and mudslides. The dialogue explains what just happened; this is a clip: "...the duration and intensity of the weekend storm are worth noting. It rained continuously for more than 24 hours in most areas of the storm’s path, and it rained The rate is higher than normal autumn rainfall. In both cases, runoff quickly exceeds the carrying capacity of streams and rivers, causing them to overflow into floodplains. In addition, flat areas such as the Sumas Prairie area between Abbotsford and Chilliwack It was saturated by the rains in October and early November, unable to drain the water and was flooded as a result. In addition, the snow in high-altitude areas melted under warm rains, exacerbating the flooding. The rainfall on November 14 hit the Records in many places in the region..."
The death toll from flooding in British Columbia will rise, and the Canadian government has pledged to provide assistance. ABC News has been updated; the following is an excerpt: "...at least 3 people are missing. Canadian Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino said that about 18,000 people have been displaced in the Pacific Rim province. We hope to confirm more in the next few days. Death toll,” said John Horgan, the governor of British Columbia. The disaster was a once-in-500-year event. "We will implement travel restrictions and ensure that the transportation of essential goods and medical and emergency services can reach the communities that need them," He Jin added, urging people not to hoard supplies..."
The science behind the northern lights: from solar flares to the northern lights. KFYRTV.com in North Dakota has a good narrator; here is an excerpt: "...A common misconception about the Northern Lights is that they appear more frequently in winter, but this is not the case. It’s just that there are more in winter. The darkness allows longer time to see the aurora at night during this period. With the sun’s active cycle of 11 years, we are now entering a new solar maximum period, where solar flares can occur more frequently, thus bringing More opportunities to observe the northern lights. "We should have just begun to see that as we gradually enter the next solar maximum period, there will be more and more activities each year," Hargrove said. Therefore, the next time we observe the North Pole When the opportunity of light comes, remember to stay away from the city lights and look for the cloudless sky to look north! But be patient, because predictions can change quickly, because accurately predicting when the substance ejected from the sun will reach the earth is very tricky Every prediction has uncertainty because the space observation tools we use to determine the exact speed and arrival speed are very limited. The direction of the mass ejection from the sun is moving..."
Climatology for Thanksgiving in Twin Cities. DNR in Minnesota has some interesting information about what is considered "average weather" in the Thanksgiving metropolitan area; the excerpt is as follows: "...The average temperature on Thanksgiving is just around freezing point. What about the extremely cold Thanksgiving? Looking back at the past 148 In 2016, the probability of the lowest temperature being zero or below zero on Thanksgiving Day is about the same, because its highest temperature is 50 degrees or above. In the past 148 years, there have been 10 times of sub-zero temperature. The coldest lowest temperature on Thanksgiving Day It was 18 degrees below zero on November 25, 1880. The coldest high temperature was below zero on November 28, 1872. The last Thanksgiving morning was below zero in 2014, and there were four times below zero. 2014 was since 1930 The coldest Thanksgiving is hot, with temperatures as high as 10 degrees. Measurable snow has fallen for the past 29 days. Thanksgiving returns to 1884, about once every five years or so. The most snowfall on Thanksgiving is 5 inches in 1970. On One time there was measurable snowfall on Thanksgiving Day in 2015, and the amount of snowfall was 1.3 inches. Historically, about one-third of Tha nksgivings had at least 1 inch of snow on the ground..."
Bill Gates' TerraPower will build the first nuclear reactor in Coaltown, Wyoming. Is there a smarter and safer (much cheaper) way to benefit from carbon dioxide-free nuclear power? A post on CNBC.com caught my attention: “TerraPower is a startup company co-founded by Bill Gates that aims to revolutionize nuclear reactor design. It chose Kemmler, Wyoming as its The preferred location for the first demonstration reactor. It aims to build TerraPower CEO Chris Levesque in a video call with reporters on Tuesday, said that by 2028, this factory located in the coal city of Border Age will become Kemmerer’s working wealth. There are 2,000 workers at the peak. It will also provide new clean energy jobs in areas dominated by coal and natural gas industries. Today, local power plants, coal mines and natural gas processing plants provide a total of more than 400 jobs- For an area with only about 3,000 inhabitants, this is a considerable number..."
As energy costs soar, Biden promotes electric car chargers. The Associated Press News has such a story: "President Joe Biden highlighted billions of dollars in his huge bipartisan infrastructure agreement to pay for the installation of electric car chargers across the country. He Says that this investment will greatly help curb global warming carbon emissions while creating high-paying jobs. Biden will visit a GM plant in Detroit on Wednesday that produces electric cars. He will use this opportunity to prove new electric car chargers The US$7.5 billion in the Infrastructure Act will help the United States obtain green energy manufacturing "off-site." At present, the market share of plug-in electric vehicle sales in the United States is one-third of the size of China's electric vehicle market..."
Those decorating for the holidays are considered more friendly. who knows? Mental Floss delves deeper: "If your family complains that you hung up Christmas lights before Thanksgiving, please know that your behavior is based on science. A study in 1989 found that people decorating houses for the holidays tend to be more friendly. ABC 27 According to the report, the study was published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology and asked participants to rate the friendliness of strangers based on photos of their homes. Homeowners assess their social skills by reporting their social contacts with neighbors or Low or high..."
32 F. The twin cities are hot on Thursday.
41 F. Average high on November 18.
53 F. MSP high on November 18, 2020.
November 19, 1981: Heavy snow close to a blizzard was observed in parts of the state. Minneapolis received 10.4 inches of snow in two days, causing the Metrodome’s inflatable structure to collapse and tear.
November 19, 1957: Snowstorm in southeastern Minnesota. One foot was thrown on Winona. The loss of crops is serious.
Friday: Partly sunny, breezy. Wind: S 15-30. Height: 40
Saturday: The sun is shining and the outside is pretty good. Wind: 8-13 northwest. Wake up: 32. Height: 42
Sunday: Gust, PM light snow coating. Wind: 20-40 northwest. Wake up: 30. Height: 35
Monday: The sun is shining. Nippi. Wind: 10-20 northwest. Wake up: 17. Height: 29
Tuesday: The sun is shining and the breeze is blowing. Wind: S 10-20. Wake up: 24. Height: 43
Thanksgiving: Clouds increase, still dry. Wind: Southwest 8-13. Wake up: 34. Height: 45
Thursday: Cloudy, windy, and cool. Wind: 15-25 northwest. Wake up: 22. Height: 34
After COP26, five things to watch in 2022. The dialogue has an opinion on what has just happened and what the future means: "What the world has achieved in the Glasgow climate negotiations-and what is happening now-depends largely on where you are lost due to rising sea levels. Homeland island countries and other highly vulnerable countries are far from achieving global emissions reduction commitments to control global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 °F). For large middle-income countries such as India and South Africa, investment in the development of clean energy There are signs of progress. In developed countries, countries must still politically internalize the imminent expiration of the bill-both at home and abroad-after decades of climate change action delays. The longer the delay, the longer the delay, The more difficult the transition..."
Why is it difficult to understand what happened on COP26. TIME.com analyzed: "The overall narrative of the emergence of COP26 is very complicated. The agreement that emerged-the Glasgow Climate Convention-has not been universally celebrated or condemned. It will not save the world, but it has indeed changed the Marshall Islands. The climate envoy, Tina Stege, told me after countries agreed to the agreement on Saturday night: "We have made real and important progress. However, she added, "There are still gaps and difficult things." It is even more complicated if everything that happened during the official negotiations is included. The private sector has made major commitments to promote the energy transition and reduce emissions. But will they stick to it? Can countries that promise to end illegal deforestation do it? Do you trust this? The United States and China said they will cooperate on climate issues. In fact, what does this actually mean? The list can continue..."
Legislators advanced the bill to reduce the impact of wildfires in climate change. Capital Weather Gang explained: "The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee advanced legislation on Tuesday aimed at reducing losses from deteriorating wildfires in the United States. The bill-the National Wildfire Risk Reduction Program Act-was created by California last month The representative of Oregon and Colorado proposed that after the devastating, climate-change-induced fire season and harmful smoke spread to the east coast of the western states in Oregon and Colorado. It directed a large amount of research funding-more than 2 billion in the next five years U.S. dollar-Federal scientific agency, and has established a national research agenda to better understand wildfires and reduce their impact. "Wildfires are becoming more and more destructive, and more and more areas of the country are becoming high-risk fire zones. , Now the wildfire season is almost a year old," sponsor Rep. Zoe Love Glenn (California Democrat) said at a committee hearing on Tuesday, which revised the bill and finally approved it. I want to enter the whole hospital..."
The number of hot summer days that fuel wildfires will increase: Climate Nexus has headlines and a link: “New research shows that due to climate change, the number of hot days that greatly increase the spread of wildfires and the risk of fire in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California will increase. Published in Science Advances This study found that by the 2040s, the number of fires may increase by 20%, and the area burned will increase. Individual dates," University of California Irvine Earth System Professor Jim Landerson, senior author of the paper, told the New York Times . (New York Times$; climate signal background: extreme heat and heat waves, wildfires).
The forgotten oil advertisement that tells us about climate change is nothing. Upton Sinclair put it best: "When a person's salary depends on his incomprehension, it is difficult to make him understand something." The Guardian detailed the ongoing misinformation campaign: “Why does it prove that meaningful action to avoid the climate crisis is so difficult? At least in part because of advertising. The fossil fuel industry has been implemented for decades and billions of dollars. The disinformation, propaganda, and lobbying activities of the U.S. dollar delay climate action by confusing the public and policymakers about the climate crisis and its solutions. This involves a series of compelling advertisements—the headline starts from "They Tell Us Children The lie" to "oil pump life"-trying to convince the public that the climate crisis is not real, man-made, not serious, and unsolvable. This movement continues to this day. Just last month, six The CEO of an oil giant was summoned to the U.S. Congress to respond to the climate crisis. The industry vilified the history of climate science-yet they lied in their oath. In other words, the fossil fuel industry is now misleading the public about it. History......"
U.S. infrastructure is struggling with the new weather forecast. It is an extreme weather event that occurs naturally, amplified and amplified by a warm/humid climate. This is a snippet from the Wall Street Journal (paywall): "... American cities have been hit by severe weather for generations, but recently many cities have had to deal with more extreme events, including some with little experience. Local government official, Columbia University geophysicist Klaus Jacobs said: "Complicates the problem: infrastructure in many places has deteriorated, leading to weakening of urban dams, aging pipelines and strained power grids. Our cities and infrastructure... are not suitable for the current situation. "The University’s Earth Institute developed a climate change adaptation plan for the New York subway system, adding that severe weather will continue to exist. Some local governments are carrying out projects to protect a range of infrastructure including power lines, roads, and water supply systems. To prevent increasing climate threats. New York City is investing more than 20 billion U.S. dollars to deal with storm surges, tidal floods, heavy rainfall, and extreme heat..."
Biden's infrastructure bill includes $50 billion to help deal with climate change disasters. CNBC.com reports: "President Joe Biden signed a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill on Monday, which includes historic funds to protect the country from the adverse effects of man-made climate change. Infrastructure bill US$50 billion is earmarked for climate resilience and climatization as more frequent and severe droughts, heat waves, floods and wildfires ravage the country. For example, it allocates financial resources to communities that are recovering from disasters or vulnerable to disasters, And increase funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Army Corps of Engineers program to help reduce flood risk and damage. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will also receive additional funding for wildfire modeling and prediction..."
Satellite monitoring of the melting of Greenland’s ice highlights the increased risk of global flooding. SciTechDaily has an update; this is an introduction: "Global warming has caused extreme ice melting events in Greenland to become more frequent and intense in the past 40 years, leading to global sea level rise and flooding risks. The study found that in the past ten years, 3.5 trillion tons of ice melted from the surface of Greenland and flowed into the ocean-enough to cover about 15m of meltwater in the UK, or about 4500m of the entire New York City. Published earlier this month in Nature On Communications, this new study is the first to use satellite data to detect this phenomenon from space-called ice sheet runoff..."
High-impact climate events: better adaptation through early prediction. A post on phys.org caught my attention; this is an excerpt: "...Traditional weather and climate predictions mainly rely on numerical models that simulate atmospheric and ocean processes. These models are usually very useful, but It’s not possible to perfectly simulate all potential processes—and phenomena such as monsoon onsets, floods, or droughts may be predicted too late. This is where network-based predictions come into play. Ludescher explains: “With viewing a large number of local interactions (representing Physical processes such as heat or moisture exchange) Instead, we directly look at the connectivity between different geographic locations, which can span continents or oceans. This connectivity is detected by measuring the similarity in the evolution of physical quantities such as temperature at these locations. For example, in the case of El Niño, strong connectivity in the tropical Pacific is often established in the calendar year before the event..."
Whether climate change can be made a matter of rights can help drive action. The Thomson Reuters Foundation posed a question: “There is no “climate change” in the language of the Turkana people in northern Kenya. Method. Angelei does not regard climate change as a global environmental risk, but explains how reduced rainfall and dry riverbeds threaten the basic right of local people to access water. "Angelei, 41, is a Kenyan environmental organization Turkana Lake Co-founder of Friends of Friends. Governments and companies all over the world have been violated by their rights. Legal experts say that the shift in the narrative about global warming-to focus on the risks it poses to fundamental rights-is critical to forcing governments to recognize the need to take action to protect their citizens..."
Children and climate change: The new book reveals why some schools cannot teach science. By the way, the word "slack" is used well. Revelator has an eye-opening post; here is an excerpt: "...all aspects of young people’s lives-from the work they do to the place they call home. However, despite the rise of young climate activists and Important, but climate change schools are not even taught in many Americans. Perhaps worse, some teachers provide misleading, outdated, or false information. This is what the reporter Katie Worth discovered when researching her new book, "How the United States" Teach climate change. Sometimes she learns that teachers don’t have the right to teach training or resources on climate change. But often the root of the problem is more disturbing. “Fossil fuel lobbyists, weak textbook companies, free marketers and evangelical leaders The Internet and the American political machine have one thing she wrote in the book..." She wrote in the book...
The northwest glacier is melting. What does this mean for the indigenous "salmon man". There is a post on OPB.org; here is a snippet: "...According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the temperature in Watcon County has risen by approximately 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit since 1922. The ice of Mount Baker It covers about 15 square miles around the summit of the volcano and is getting thinner and thinner. Since Grah began research in 2012, the nearly one-mile-long Sholes Glacier has retreated more than 400 feet up the mountain. At the top of the glacier, untrained My eyes may not be able to detect these changes. Below, it is more obvious: Melt water gushes out of the deep blue bottom of the glacier. Of course, glacier ice melts every summer. New snow is added in winter. But as the climate warms. , The annual dance has tended to melt, and glaciers all over the world are melting..."
Solution series: Create a climate-friendly house. A post from the Climate Center showcased opportunities to reduce energy demand and save money: “Residential and commercial buildings account for 13% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Work space is critical to achieving net zero emissions and limiting climate warming. The use of efficiency and electrification measures can reduce carbon emissions in single-family houses by 24%. These upgrades are also lucrative investments for homeowners. More information For more information, please check out our latest solution series brief: Creating climate-friendly homes. The brief provides data, resources, and story suggestions to help tell fascinating stories about energy efficiency and electrification in local communities..."
In a Stark letter, the researchers personally urged the world leaders of COP26 to finally take scientific action. Or did we just get another pile of diplomatic services? This is an excerpt from internal climate news: "As COP26 representatives worked overtime on Friday night to shape the language of their final climate bulletin into a language that all 197 countries can agree to, scientists from all over the world released their latest, maybe Is the most severe warning.” We, climate scientists, emphasize the need for immediate, forceful, rapid, sustained, and large-scale actions to control global warming well below 2°C and work hard to limit it to 1.5°C," they wrote in a report on November 11. Letter to the conference. More than 200 scientists from all continents signed the letter to remind conference delegates that there was no negotiation with science, Zurich Sonia Seniveratne, a climate researcher at the Federal Institute of Technology and the lead author of the latest intergovernmental climate science report, said. The Panel on Climate Change..."
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