Digforcrystals
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Post by Digforcrystals on May 23, 2011 10:30:44 GMT -5
Here's a poll about if you think the weather ( hurricanes, tornadoes , temperature extremes ) are radically different and that there has been a dramatic change compared to the last 30 to 60 years.
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Post by jakesrocks on May 23, 2011 10:46:24 GMT -5
At 69 yrs. old, I don't see any real difference. We've always had swings in the weather from year to year, and always will. Mother nature does her own thing, and we can't change it. If anything, our summers have been cooler for the last couple of years in S.D., but I'm sure they have been warmer or wetter in other parts of the country.
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Post by Toad on May 23, 2011 10:53:20 GMT -5
We've had more tornadoes that hit populated areas this year - resulting in more death and property damage than in recent past. But I imagine if you go back far enough, you'll find a worse season. Also be curious to know where we are in total confirmed tornadoes.
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Post by Hard Rock Cafe on May 23, 2011 12:31:13 GMT -5
The topic may be a little closer to home for Rodney, given the record number of tornadoes the South had this spring with over 300 tornadoes April 25-28.
Chuck
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Digforcrystals
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Post by Digforcrystals on May 23, 2011 12:42:09 GMT -5
Good point, because I am surprised how the poll is going.
Yeah, Every day when I ride to work I ride right by a neighborhood that got hit hard - houses that are just leveled.
So it does make me think of it every day.
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Post by Fossilman on May 23, 2011 13:10:46 GMT -5
I lived in the midwest for a very long time,I know its getting worse by talking to the oldtimers and the way it was during their younger times...
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Post by chassroc on May 23, 2011 15:01:26 GMT -5
Communications are better so we hear about more catstophes than ever before. That being said, You have to realize that this has become a political question for many people.
charlie
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Post by frane on May 23, 2011 15:23:49 GMT -5
Over a year ago, I read an article that talked about earth cycles along with weather trends. I am pretty sure it was in Farmers Almanac and it said that we were coming up on an 88 year cycle and a 33 year cycle that would cross, causing severe weather swings with flow patterns changing so we would see extreme weather around the world for about 3 years. I suspect that we are having that effect. I was reading about the giant jelly fish that are clogging the waters around Japan. They are flourishing in the waters that are 2 degrees higher than normal with no predictors and they said it has not happened in over 85 years so it looks like it falls into that pattern. We have always had swings and Charlie is right, we have better communications now so we hear about everything right away. Fran
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Post by texaswoodie on May 23, 2011 18:29:23 GMT -5
We have good seasons and we have bad seasons. This is a bad one. It seems every time we have a bad one, people go around saying the sky is falling.
Curt
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Post by chassroc on May 24, 2011 5:55:34 GMT -5
We just had the worst April in recorded history for tornados but I'm sticking to my guns and denying there is any change in weather extremes. It's just a natural high in the high and low cycle. After all, some time has to be the high and it randomly happens to be now. Charlie
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Post by stefan on May 24, 2011 9:56:16 GMT -5
Just natural cycles. Remember durning the Carter Administration? The talk was all about global cooling!! You notice this stuff more because we have more "media" outlets that bombard us with the info (not to detract from the suffering and loss of property). Also the tornadoes seem to be hitting more populated areas because there are more popultated areas to hit. I was just reading about the huge famine caused back in the 1800 when a lot of the northeast had a frost EVERY month of the year! I also remember the floods of just a few years ago and some of the HOTTEST summer weather we have ever had (followed by this year that has been the coldest wettest year in over 90!) Just earth (actually more correctly the SUN) going through its natural cycles.
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Post by jakesrocks on May 24, 2011 10:10:48 GMT -5
OMG ! I can't believe I'm saying this, but for once I have to agree with Charlie. Even a casual study of the geological record will clearly show that there have been countless climate swings in the history of this big rock we call home. Don
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Post by mohs on May 24, 2011 11:01:39 GMT -5
I just voted NO but I have no real firm idea being that I only have 50 years on earth my heart certainly goes out to the destruction that occurred again Ed
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Post by snuffy on May 24, 2011 17:30:17 GMT -5
I was just checking some tornado and hurricane info that occurred in the state of Texas. The Galveston hurricane of 1900 killed 6,000 people. The Waco tornado of1953 killed 114 people,as did the Goliad tornado of 1902.they were tied at tenth nationally in loss of life until the recent ones. There are so many more populated areas now, and also greater warning systems. But when the big ones hit,they hit hard.
snuffy
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