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The Official Weather Thread

Saw an Amish fellow at Home Depot buying an air conditioner.  Loaded it up on his horse and buggy.
 
GER said:
Saw an Amish fellow at Home Depot buying an air conditioner.  Loaded it up on his horse and buggy.
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lol the one on Sportsworld or the one on Northfield? I guess Northfield would be closer...
 
Had to dig deep to find this thread. :)

Just wanted to mention that New Orleans / southern Louisiana is taking a pounding from Hurricane Isaac today, 7 years to the day after Katrina hit. While it hasn't been nearly as devestating as Katrina, there have been some areas hit hard by storm surge flooding. Hopefully everyone manages to get out okay.
 
Rick said:
What an absolute DOWNPOUR here in Cambridge.  Lights have flickered a few times.
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It was pretty nasty this morning as well. There was standing water in the streets when I walked to work this morning. Didn't dry out for at least 3 hours and a coffee later.
 
A 7.9 magnitude earthquake has hit just off Costa Rica. A tsunami warning is in effect from Mexico to Chile.

A good friend has a summer house on the coast of Costa Rica - and he's down there right now.
 
Arctic (summer) ice melting faster than anticipated does not come without it's implications...

Arctic ice everywhere is disappearing at a significant rate. Data gathered by satellite and planes flying over the ice, as well as submarines diving under it, indicate that the total volume of Arctic ice has diminished by almost half since 2004.

At the present rate, summer ice will disappear much sooner than previously estimated, scientists say.

the International Panel on Climate Change models don't predict a seasonally ice-free Arctic until sometime between 2050 and 2100. But our observations say this will happen much sooner. We are on a trajectory that will see a seasonally ice-free Arctic within the next decade or two. This will be the first time this has happened on Earth in a very long time," says Barber.

?Our observations show a much more rapid response to the build-up of CO2 [in the atmosphere] than we expected to find. This should be a wake-up call to the public and to policy-makers to increase efforts to address this global problem.?

...the shrinking Arctic ice has several impacts on the planet, both in the Arctic and globally.

Effects of the vanishing sea ice will be very widespread, says Barber.

?Weather in the Arctic can affect the climate in temperate parts of the planet. The Arctic Ocean doesn't ventilate the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans as effectively as it used to, and this leads to continued warming of these two large global oceans ?therefore increasing global temperatures.?

Another major concern, says Barber, is melting glaciers, which means an increase in fresh water that enters the large oceans of the world.

?This causes sea levels to rise and has impacts globally in the form of storm surges," says Barber, who noted a good example of that being how Hurricane Isaac affected New Orleans..

Methane can be released from sub-sea permafrost and this process appears to be accelerating,? says Barber.

"...methane is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2... our CO2-enhanced warming of the Arctic could lead to much more warming globally, as the amount of methane emission to the atmosphere increases.?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/09/13/f-franklin-arctic-ice-retreat.html
 
Interesting stuff. I also read that there have been some pretty significant storms up in the Arctic this summer that have helped by pushing around and breaking up a lot of the ice that is still there. The world is changing, that's for sure.
 
LittleHockeyFan said:
6 o'clock news said it's snowing in Winnipeg.



Really?!
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Ugh he

Please don't remind me, I moved from Gillam to Winnipeg and thought I'd have a bit longer before snow and my first winter living here, we get snow before Gillam, how ironic is that  >:(
 
RyanSH12 said:
LittleHockeyFan said:
6 o'clock news said it's snowing in Winnipeg.



Really?!
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Ugh he

Please don't remind me, I moved from Gillam to Winnipeg and thought I'd have a bit longer before snow and my first winter living here, we get snow before Gillam, how ironic is that  >:(
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Maybe the hockey gods are mad!    ;D
 
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