Our recent welcomed cool down will not last as we'll start to feel summer-like by the middle of next week. A weak front may reach us on Thursday with some much needed rainfall, but the real cold air will remain far to our north. The second week in November promises to bring a much colder airmass back down over the Gulf South. Don't worry about any freezes south of Lake Pontchartrain until after Thanksgiving. Our next concern will be the start of FOG SEASON. That usually begins when the Lake P. water temperatures dip below 60 degrees. Currently they're in the mid 60s.
Global warming alarmists are trying to figure out what's up. Fairbank's October temperatures were the 4th coldest on record. London had its 1st October snowfall in 74 years! Switzerland to Tibet is experiencing record cold and early season snowfall. Global temperature records are showing cooling, NOT warming since 1998 despite CO2 concentrations rising. The next administration will pass new laws (taxes) to reduce global warming. Seems that may not be necessary?
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Bob I think you're great, but I don't see why it would ever be a problem to pass laws restricting factory output of CO2 or to increase the gas mileage of vehicles. Even if global warming is a natural cyclical phenomenon, there is never any reason why we shouldn't start treating our earth better. To not do so is irresponsible and stupid. What we are doing is taking millions of years of the earth's work to scrub the environment clean of CO2 and putting it back into the atmosphere at an alarming rate - eventually that will catch up with us. I have never understood people who think that slowing that process down is a bad thing. Frankly, it's as though those people are children who can't leave the cookie in the jar and must have it now.
Okay now that we are less than two hours away from ending Day Light Saving Time, I thought I would put a pet peeve of mine in here...
Some weathermen, not all... will comment that we get an extra hour of sleep tonight...I disagree. Lets say I go to be at midnight and wake up at 9AM, I get nine hours of sleep. To which I get up turn my clocks back and its now 8AM...so did I get an extra hour of sleep or just added a hour to my day.
I think it would be more correct to say if you do get an extra hour of sleep it is on Sunday night. If you regularly go to bed at 10PM, but you go to bed for 9PM because your body thinks its 10....then you will get your extra hour of sleep...which solely depends if you wake up at the time you regularly get up...which now just might be an hour earlier...
Truth is to me...it an adjustment your body has to make and it takes a few days to get used to...Most people I know say either leave time as it is....
Now that I got that off my chest I think I'll go to be and get some sleep....ZZZzzz..
BSB
The extra hour of sleep would be if you set your clock back before you went to bed. Say you go to bed at midnight and wake up at 9am. So when you go to bed at midnight, you set your clock back to 11pm, and wake up at 9am. 11 to 9 is 10 hours, where before you had midnight to 9 which is nine hours. Thats your extra hour of sleep.
It all depends on perspective.
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