Tuesday, December 15, 2009

New Record...2 to Go...

As of 3 PM, MSY had a 2 day rain total of 8.95 bringing their monthly amount to 22.54" This is the wettest ever for MSY in December...the wettest month ever breaking the 21.18" in May of 1995. The New Orleans city gage (moved several times) dates back to the 1880s and their wettest months are 1) 25.11" in Oct. 1937 and 2) 22.74" in Aug. 1888. We will easily pass # 2 and should leap beyond #1 since we have 1/2 of Dec. left. Our next rain chance arrives late Thursday as yet another Gulf Low forms. This system will be farther to the south and the heaviest rains should stay south and east. The big weather story is the cool down coming. Highs will struggle to get into the 50s with freezing temps likely on the Northshore Sunday morning. Heavy coat weather is returning.

Read a report that Nitrogen Trifloride is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2. Never hear that mentioned. Also, did you see that a volcano is erupting in the Phillipines? What ya think is coming out of it? More greenhouse gases. Damn Mother Nature!

5 comments:

Caveman said...

The gas only contribute about 0.04 percent of the total global warming effect contributed by human-produced carbon dioxide emissions.

rcs said...

Thanks Caveman, beat me to it.

GREG said...

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/04/26/ice-at-the-north-pole-in-1958-not-so-thick/

A few photos of an almost icefree north pole and the story to go with it.
What did all those polar bears do???

All the evidence that warming and cooling is cyclical has already been proven "the sky is falling" era is over guys!!!

GREG said...

Also if all of the ice had melted back then, why werent all of the coastal cities flooded like the doom and gloomers predict would happen now??

Bourbon St. Blues said...

Gregg, probably because they didn't have a dozen computer models giving us "what if" scenarios of what would happen if the Northpole ice had completely melted away as we do now....

Of course computers and their models dont lie....

Bob when does a typical El Nino let up and we can get rid of this SW flow and all these Gulf Lows? Or maybe just the Frequency of them?