I usually enjoy reading Dr. Jeff Masters' blog on Weatherunderground...but today's was a temper tantrum. I can understand some of his distress, but he continues to put down the many thousands of scientists that believe the warming trend of the 80s thru 2003 was part of the natural variability of the Earth's climate instead of that warming trend being caused/driven by CO2. He sites many organizations, that depend on government funding, as being his "consensus". Not sure this debate will ever end, except these computer modelers did not predict the current cooling, nor can they say why it's happening...except it could be part of the "natural variability of the planet!" Go figure.
Back to weather...this week will be delightful with sunny, mild days and comfy cool nights. A warming trend will bring temperatures back to near 80 for Thursday & Friday. Another cold front will bring a shower threat back for Saturday, but it's too soon to tell if this front will clear us for Easter Sunday. What we need is for a real rain system to clean all the pollen out of the air. Maybe that will come Saturday night?
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If Dr. Masters should just run for a position in the North Dakota Educational System if he thinks there is something so grimly wrong with it. LOL
*Update*
Quiet weather is expected to continue as we head into Thursday and Friday as deep ridging builds into the area. Highs should reach the 80 degree mark everywhere Thursday and Friday. Saturday, a strong shortwave trough and associated cold front will move towards the area, and this will bring the threat for some rain mid-day Saturday. As the front approaches, the convection along it should weaken as it moves into the area because it will move away from the best lift. It should be nothing more than a shoe-shoe system.
-ONLYREAL
Hey Bob!
Great Job on the Weather Channel Tonight! However, I have serious issues on how TWC handled the debate. First off, they changed the original question that they asked you when they asked John. Second off, the questions they asked were terrible questions. Third, there was not enough time for the debate, and fourth, They should have given you the last word, not john.
But the biggest reason I have more beef with the Weather Channel than before is that after watching that is that they didn't mention the age group of the people that took the survey that they presented to the public. Like you told me most of the people that took the survey were too young to remember the 70's or weren't even born yet! Meaning that they were not able to remember the Cold cycle that we were in during that period of time and that only 6% were only mature enough to have lived through that time period. Like you said, a lot of the young Weather personalities that took the survey just blindly except that hogwash. The whole thing just burns me up! But anyway, you couldn't have handled it better.
-ONLYREAL
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