At least we are making ice and the coyotes should be hungry with the cold temps. I bet the camera batteries will hate these cold temps this weekend.
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Fair -14°F -26°C Humidity 82% Wind Speed W 5 mph Barometer 30.72 in (1042.8 mb) Dewpoint -18°F (-28°C) Visibility 10.00 mi Wind Chill -27°F (-33°C) Last update 27 Dec 7:52 am CST Reply Reply All
Elburn IL
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Humidity 73% Wind Speed E 3 mph Barometer 30.63 in (1039.2 mb) Dewpoint -3°F (-19°C) Visibility 9.00 mi Last update 28 Dec 6:52 am CST
I saw some charts somewhere on the coming polar vortex cool-down, the mid and east coast is going to get hammered, the west including Alaska and BC not so much.
There's actually a lot of truth to that. I grew up in New Jersey, where the average low temps for the winter months are in the mid 20's to 30's. I then moved to Wyoming where the average lows are in the teens and as we all know sub-zero cold there is the norm. In New Jersey it's rare to non-existent. Yet because of the dampness of the cold in New Jersey, when it DOES get down in the 20's there it's C O L D. And I mean cold like it cuts right into your bones. In Wyoming it could be zero and as long as the sun was out and you weren't in the wind (I 'd say, "if the wind weren't blowing", but that only happens once in a millennia) it really wasn't all that bad. I fed a LOT of cattle in weather like that.
The same holds true for the summer heat. 100 degrees in the desert is FAR more comfortable than 85 degrees with 95% humidity on the east coast.
The original application for the wall, (signed by trump!), cited global warming and rising seas as a reason for needing the wall. you've been conned. he absolutely believes in global warming. he's pandering to his base. Yes, that's you. And you're lapping it up just as he wants you to. Good work! For the ill informed: Climate change, aka global warming, brings severe changes to *all* weather: more and stronger hurricanes, colder and icier winters and winter storms, longer hotter droughts. rising waters along coasts and overswept islands, etc. This is currently happening. Its Science. Choosing to believe it isn't an option. Just like if you choose not to believe in gravity.
Yes, another ill-informed manifestation of the "Lyin King" of Norwalk, CT; as with all it's previous iterations this one comes equipped, right out of the box with a pull cord that plays a number of favorite liberal talking points, all equally banal and painfully predictable.
Word is the 2018 model will offer no improvements........
Even harder to explain is the penchant for infantile rantings via multiple iterations; hard to wrap one's head around how bereft of substance a life needs to be if that is what constitutes a troll's "entertainment".
As that noted 20th Century bard opined, "I pity the fool!"
"I like wind and solar. It's much more peaceful to watch the windmills turn than smelling and seeing a coal plant belch poison."
What's not to like? Except for the ecological damage done to mine the materials for wind and solar. The footprint per megawatt generated is considerable larger....Yeah, that wind and solar is as pristine as the new fallen snow.
"It's hard to explain the difficulties trolls seem to have with punctuation, grammar and basic sentence structure; almost leads me to start working on a manual; something along the lines of "Trolling for Dummies"."
Maybe throw in spelling?
Mike in CT's Link
I don't have an issue with an honest spelling error as much as the inconceivable notion that polar vortexes are something new; they were first described in the mid-19th century in fact.
Stupidity is the unhappy luck of the gene pool draw; ignorance is a conscious choice......
FYI - 10 acres to produce 1 MW of solar. To make 1000 MW, well, you can do the math. And in the mean time, do your part and shut off all power to your business and house, after all, most of it comes from some kind of environmental disaster to make it...
But according to the National Weather Service, the movement of the polar vortex is totally normal—even if it throws an icy wrench in your winter plans.
gflight's Link
I have a 13K system on my house, we just got in under the wire as Maui Electric has cut off their program to credit your production toward your electric bill (essentially run the meter backwards). They found they are losing their butts with it. A mainland company was going to buy them out until the state told them they would have to honor all the contracts people have right now. The company bailed out.
Maui is in a unique position to even have these alternatives compete at all due to the high cost of electric (our monthly bill was right around $400-500 month with no AC....) Even then it's proving to be too expensive. The fixed costs actually going up while elec company production/demand going down.
Alternatives currently are best for non on demand uses (production of hydrogen for example) Until a economically viable storage system comes down the road they are not really any answer in most cases. Makes little sense for electric companies to buy it when they still need the big plants for !00% demand. That day is likely to come.... or maybe a new fuel comes sooner that makes all this a pointless exercise. But right now..... they are having serious issues, even when using other people's money.....
Now let's go back even further. What caused the massive regional drought that forced the Anasazi culture to disappear as we know it? Used to be very fertile land in the FCr's...
That's just the one that popped up in your Google search...
May need tire chains for the Prius.
Via Washington Examiner:
Coal-fired power plants are king again as sub-zero temperatures sent demand for heating and electricity soaring on the East Coast Friday in the largest energy market in the nation.
Coal outpaced both natural gas and nuclear power plants in the PJM market, which extends from the Midwest to Washington, according to real-time updates provided by the grid operator PJM Interconnection.
Coal provided nearly 20,000 megawatts more electricity throughout the day Friday than its primary rival natural gas and over 10,000 megawatts more than nuclear power plants.
One megawatt of electricity can provide 750-1,200 homes with power, depending on how much demand there is on the system, according to experts.
The PJM breakdown looked like this: Coal at 45,842 MW; nuclear power at 35,514; and natural gas at 25,927. Renewables provided 3,086 MW. Coal, nuclear and natural gas are the three dominant sources of 24-hour power on the grid.
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Gorbalists demanding the switch to solar and wind power would have literally been left out in the cold had they had their fondest desires...
There is only One source of true freedom and leftists fight that source at every turn.
Uhh...No. Try again. This time, don't rely on a Google search. Had you actually visited this area, you would have not made those statements.
You did a quick internet search to discredit, only to discredit yourself. Besides 1974, another winter in the early 90's collapsed a roof at Ft. Lewis College in Durango and froze the San Juan river bank to bank at Montezuma Creek, UT.
So, to sit there and claim extreme weather is something new is nonsensical at best and I am still waiting to hear your "theory" on why a 50 yr drought drove the Anasazi out of Chaco Canyon in the mid 11th century AD...
You have zero knowledge of the area so stop pretending. The only one full of anything is you, hand.
Have a HAPPY NEW YEAR gentlemen! you too, LefthandedBongNinja
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Humidity 68% Wind Speed NW 12 mph Barometer 30.65 in (1040.0 mb) Dewpoint -15°F (-26°C) Visibility 10.00 mi Wind Chill -26°F (-32°C) Last update 31 Dec 11:52 pm CST More Information:
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The last four runs of the GFS show the eastern half of the Lower 48 ringing in the New Year with the lowest average temperature in at least 70 years – edging out 1977 by just over 2°F. @capitalweather pic.twitter.com/efXAzn2weM
— Brian Brettschneider (@Climatologist49) December 29, 2017
If you live in the eastern two-thirds of the U.S. you face some of the coldest New Year's Eve and New Year's Day weather in many decades: https://t.co/G0w8PUKTWt
— Capital Weather Gang (@capitalweather) December 31, 2017
If you live in the eastern two-thirds of the U.S. you face some of the coldest New Year's Eve and New Year's Day weather in many decades: https://t.co/G0w8PUKTWt
— Capital Weather Gang (@capitalweather) December 31, 2017
As technology develops, the scientific community generally comes up with different ways to describe phenomena that occur in the world we live in. For one, it creates interest, and interest drives financial gain. Sometimes it may simply be a better understanding of something that was previously only theorized, possibly incorrectly. There really is no evidence to support the non-natural occurrence of this cold, no matter what sad clowns on this forum would have people believe.
Weather is not climate.
Climate Expert James Hansen: New York Will Have Vanished Underwater by Midnight!
Say goodbye to Lower Manhattan, everybody! By midnight tonight, it will be gone forever—drowned by the melting icecaps of the disappearing Arctic.
Obviously this will be quite sad for people who live in New York.
But it will be a tremendous vindication for the expertise of James Hansen, the former director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) who saw this disaster coming as far back as 2008.
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Terry (;>)
Second time you've said that, it must be so... (eye roll, eye roll, eye roll).
I live here and have for decades, you don't. So quit while you're ahead...
Worth repeating.
Meanwhile, in Davos, gorbal warming is hiding beneath several feet of snow. However, Al Gore released his best invention since the Internet...the invertable thermometer--the lower the temperature, the greater the warming.
A similar event to a nuclear holocaust happened 65 million years ago, and yet, here we are today...
