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[Rogerdodger]

Weather, HOT one place, COLD in another.
Everybody talks about it but nobody makes money off of it... except Al.

(Reuters) - An Arctic air mass sent temperatures plunging across California, forcing the 17-hour closure of a key interstate highway through the mountains north of Los Angeles and threatening citrus crops in the state's vast central valleys, authorities said on Friday.
The Weather Service alerted farmers to the danger so they could take precautions, but there may still be a heavy loss.
"They won't be able to save all of the crops," Barlow said.
"This is going to be a pretty SIGNIFICANT FREEZE EVENT for the central California citrus crops."
http://www.reuters.c...E90A13C20130111


Sunspot unleashes intense solar flare...
http://www.msnbc.msn...e/#.UPC8JUbDVSI

Edited by Rogerdodger, 12 January 2013 - 11:24 AM.

[diogenes227]

Climate's believe it or not --

TEXAS TRIES TO START TO ADJUST

But on Thursday, Mr. Ritter proposed bills that would draw $2 billion from the state’s emergency Rainy Day Fund to establish a water infrastructure bank that would lend money for the projects. This time, his proposals received support from Republican leaders and groups that are often on the opposite sides of issues, including the Sierra Club’s Texas chapter, the Texas Association of Business and other industry groups. At least 20 percent of the money available in the fund would be used for conservation and reuse efforts.

“There were people who were trying to talk about water last time, and there wasn’t any money, and there wasn’t the critical mass,” said James Henson, the director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas, Austin. “Elite opinion begins to coalesce after a little while, and it takes people a while to get the issue out there, and I think that’s part of what’s happened with water.”

Another reason for the shift, and why some are calling this Legislature the “water session,” has to do with the sense of urgency over the drought.

Texas is in the grip of a record-breaking drought that began in the fall of 2010 and continues to affect many parts of the state. So far, it is the third-worst drought in Texas since at least 1895, when statewide weather records begin, with the multiyear drought in the 1950s being the worst, said John Nielsen-Gammon, the state climatologist.

The drought has cost farmers billions of dollars and has forced hundreds of communities to limit water usage. Eighteen public water systems were projected to run out of water in 180 days or fewer as of Tuesday, according to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, which monitors and assists those systems.

Meanwhile, the levels of many lakes and reservoirs, a crucial part of the water supply, have steadily decreased with the lack of rainfall.

Without additional water supplies, Texas will be short 8.3 million acre-feet of water by 2060, according to the Texas Water Development Board. It is a nearly unimaginable amount: one million gallons of water equals just 3.07 acre-feet. The board also estimates that failure to meet water needs in times of drought in 2060 could cost Texas businesses and workers up to $116 billion.

[Rogerdodger]

Wow! Texas' first drought ever... except for all of those other times.

Believe it or not:
"While the “Dirty Thirty’s” serves as a measuring stick for present day climate change, other methods of scientific research have revealed more severe drought periods within the past 2000 years. Tree-ring growth studies in western Nebraska show the 1930’s drought was not that uncommon, and the “Dirty Thirty’s” actually pale in comparison to a 38-year drought that began in 1276, and another 26-year drought in the middle 1500’s."

"Texas is in the grip of a record-breaking drought that began in the fall of 2010" is nothing compared to a "a 38-year drought" or a "26-year drought".
But that fact is a bit "Inconvenient" isn't it Al? No SUVs. No Oil. No fracking. No private jets and limos Al.

See: CYCLES (Note item 2.2 below)

• 1 Time and calendar cycles
• 2 Planetary cycles
  • 2.1 Astronomical cycles
  • 2.2 Climate and weather cycles
  • 2.3 Geological cycles
• 3 Organic cycles
  • 3.1 Agricultural cycles
  • 3.2 Biological and medical cycles
  • 3.3 Brain waves and cycles
• 4 Physics cycles
  • 4.1 Mathematics of waves and cycles
  • 4.2 Electromagnetic spectrum
  • 4.3 Sound waves
• 5 Miscellaneous cycles
  • 5.1 Economic and business cycles
  • 5.2 Music and rhythm cycles
  • 5.3 Religious, mythological, and spiritual cycles
  • 5.4 Social and cultural cycles
  • 5.5 Military and war
  • 5.6 Literature

Edited by Rogerdodger, 14 January 2013 - 10:30 AM.

[Rogerdodger]

As Australia hits "record" heat (with the record only going back a few decades),
I say: "Weather, HOT one place, COLD in another."

The theme of this thread: "Adjusting to Climate Change... got no snow, there's always..."
And the answer is...Russia!

Snowpocalypse Russia: 'Snow tsunami' swallows streets, cars, buildings...
http://rt.com/news/w...ia-weather-275/

Unrelenting snowfalls have caused unprecedented chaos in Russia. Over the past week, the country has seen scores of traffic accidents, flight delays and, in some cases, the complete isolation of some remote settlements and towns.
More than 12,000 snow removal trucks worked around-the-clock to clean up the mess, but their efforts did little, with the city coming to an effective standstill.

Russia snowed under. (World Wide Daily Snow and Ice Cover Map, Source: NOAA)




This photo above reminds me of my first ski trip to Gunnison Colorado.
The snow literally was above the roof tops with only a skinny walkway to many of the front doors.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 20 January 2013 - 08:30 PM.