Here's the link to the weather station in New York's Central Park

http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/KNYC.html

Oh the horror

Probably a real-time disconnect with the world

Happens to the best.

When done, it's estimated from the models that it will add 20 ACE points to the 2011 accumulation.

Only in this thread one will read that between 2007 and 2011 there were 3 good years in the Arctic. Feel free to take assessment of that statement, and many others:



Anyone not understanding there were no 3 ''good'' years?

CO2 is on the rise in the atmosphere... 2010 so far saw record human output. After eliminating all other possible variables, that's the element that stands out as not normal in our unnaturally warming climate... in fact it's 40% higher than 2 centuries ago and from their signature we know it's all [puny] man made releases.

Not food for thought to too many.

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P.S. Do only USA landfall hurricanes count? Lets not talk Tornados (160 deaths in Joplin e.g.), Typhoons, Tropical Storms etc. The total Northern Hemisphere ACE [model based], before Irene came along, was already ahead of normal... inconvenient truths.

oh and

Man has heart attack while shuttering house
Man falls from Ladders while shuttering house
Surfer drowns

Do not count as "Hurricane" Irene caused deaths

Although I am sure you will

moving 15mph sse of atlantic city 75mph speed gusting 75+.
came ashore 17mph in nc 90mph wind gusting 95+.
600 miles wide. only 6 deid at this time. scheduled to come close to nyc in approximatly 2-3 hours.
presently 958mb.
flooding has started at long island already.
the wind speed being 75mph at ground level so a 80 story building like in nyc will equat to apprx 100mph. Lots of glass arround there.

You'll gonna love this, David Autumns:

In the 'known' news, the Suez-max-sized supertanker crossing through the Arctic... also on BBC news:
http://www.barentsobserver.com/first-supertan...-route.4951370-16178.html

This was also in the Barents Observer:

Preparing for next year's Northern Sea Route season
http://www.barentsobserver.com/preparing-for-...season.4832790-16175.html

3 conventional and 3 nuclear powered ice-breaker vessels approved for construction, at cost of many hundreds of millions. See, miniaturized nuclear power... one pathway to get rid of coal powered plants and clean up the air... pebble bed NPs would do it too, at a very small footprint compared to wind-farms.

Oh, and look at that with that great arctic state... Friday news:

Japanese bulk carrier sets record on Northern Sea Route

http://www.barentsobserver.com/japanese-bulk-...rn-sea-route.4952254.html

It ain't happening, it ain't true. But that icebreaker build up is to make sure that heavy equipment can be transported to coastal Russia/Siberia... for oil and gas drilling, large part of the continental shelf there are shallow... the bottom is permafrosted, so not sure sure whether the drilling planning is for flat-boats or jack-ups. There is no road/rail infrastructure anywhere there, not on the permafrost thawing Canadian/Alaska side either... road/railtrack is guaranteed to collapse the way things are going and with the way things are going, corporations will adapt to their mode of operation... well ahead of the rest of the pack.

Yes, things we think of, which is food for thought to some others too, more than you'd ever consider. Planning is foresight. Governments saw there was reason to act with the worst scenarios in mind. Not many objected, few fatalities occurred so far, and yes some with weaker health might get a heart-failure when on ladder, when without a passing hurricane they'd probably would not have been. The guy had shutters on his house, so he'll have known what could come by, and will have been in stress. Would you, had you been there?

David, wake up, the world is a rude place. If you're on your belly, behind a brick wall, bullets flying by the hundreds coming from thugs terrorizing a community, then you know what reality is. Have you ever had to in your save corner where 2-3 storms pass without much ado, because it is YOUR 'normal' and houses in your range are build for this? Tens of millions Americans live in wooden places, which by coincidence sequester CO2 too for longer periods. They're not going to stand even a serious brush of an Irene.

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P.S. Not sure all members are in appreciation of your current funpack joy. I've missed it utterly and completely and at this time. An H2 ran through Houston/Galveston.


The previous last USA landfall, Ike, Galveston particularly has not recovered fully... a destroyed wastewater processing plant and in 2010 still being discussed: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headline...Galveston-repair-8160.ece

Where did/does that water go in the interim? Don't think I'll be eating Gulf of Mexico fish for longer, not with that millions of gallons of the BP leak related oil detergent in it for sure. The fish for food dependent will unknowingly get the health-bill served.

edits: Several for spelling... those Sses that are needed and the Sses that are not in Inglese... let alone Apostrophe S's.