Speaking of Weather
Recently I posted an entry with a number of links focused on what might be called my micro-climate - mostly centered on temperature variations between my apartment complex and the nearest reporting stations. Now for the other side of coin, here's some interesting news on the macro-climate.
It seems that NOAA weather scientists are forecasting a warmer winter with normal precipitation for most of the US. While I don't know that this really tells me about the coming winter, I guess I don't have to worry too much about snow. Or do I?
I really find it interesting though that the area at the southern and western corner of Lake Michigan has much stronger chances of having a warmer winter. What's up with that? It's almost like they have done some much in the last few years to pave over the prairie that there it's just getting warmer.
The one important thing is that we aren't heading into a nasty El Niño. On the contrary, it looks like a weak La Niña. NOAA provides monthly forecasts, or should we think of them more like updates, of the current conditions of the El Niño Southern Oscillation with weekly updates of readings taken across the globe.
There is something absolutely fascinating about this stuff. For one thing, it shows just how small this little planet can be in terms of how conditions in one area affect the weather of much or all of the Earth. But another part is that much of this is very new science. I guess we can even think about it as almost as cutting edge as the genome.
On a related front, it really looks like we've had many more tropical storms and hurricanes this year in the Atlantic than they would have predicted when they dreamed up the naming convention. We are up to 24 with TS Gamma. Of course we in the US only focus on the storms off our SE coast. I find myself wondering if other parts of the globe are experiencing as many storms this year too.
It seems that NOAA weather scientists are forecasting a warmer winter with normal precipitation for most of the US. While I don't know that this really tells me about the coming winter, I guess I don't have to worry too much about snow. Or do I?
I really find it interesting though that the area at the southern and western corner of Lake Michigan has much stronger chances of having a warmer winter. What's up with that? It's almost like they have done some much in the last few years to pave over the prairie that there it's just getting warmer.
The one important thing is that we aren't heading into a nasty El Niño. On the contrary, it looks like a weak La Niña. NOAA provides monthly forecasts, or should we think of them more like updates, of the current conditions of the El Niño Southern Oscillation with weekly updates of readings taken across the globe.
There is something absolutely fascinating about this stuff. For one thing, it shows just how small this little planet can be in terms of how conditions in one area affect the weather of much or all of the Earth. But another part is that much of this is very new science. I guess we can even think about it as almost as cutting edge as the genome.
On a related front, it really looks like we've had many more tropical storms and hurricanes this year in the Atlantic than they would have predicted when they dreamed up the naming convention. We are up to 24 with TS Gamma. Of course we in the US only focus on the storms off our SE coast. I find myself wondering if other parts of the globe are experiencing as many storms this year too.
posted by xj at 6:47 PM
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