What is going on with this weather???

Maybe the last 4 big earthquakes we had in a little more than 2 years, that changed the shape and tilt of the Earth, might have had a bigger impact than originally reported?

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That was very interesting but again, I'm not looking for explanations as to why these changes are occurring - I'm looking to compile data to see where the greatest fluctuations are occurring to the greatest degree. I do appreciate your contribution, however.

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Believe it or not, I had to turn the air-conditioning on in my apartment today as I live on the top floor and the heat rises. The air up here must have exceeded 80 degrees.

Originally posted by timidgal
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That was very interesting but again, I'm not looking for explanations as to why these changes are occurring - I'm looking to compile data to see where the greatest fluctuations are occurring to the greatest degree. I do appreciate your contribution, however.

It would already be done, research el nino data.. there would be tonnes of it somewhere on the net. Im fairly sure they are greater towards the equator and tropical areas, but as the map shows it has different affects wether it be hot dry or wet.

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Gotta tell ya that I live in an area that was supposedly hit hardest by Irene. There's no question that we've experienced higher than average rainfalls, but Irene, herself, did not wreak the havoc widely reported. A major bridge and two major highways were closed supposedly due to extensive flooding. My daughter and I traveled the parallel of one of those highways on our side of the bridge and found nothing so unusual as to necessitate its closure. Am still wondering what that was all about...

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I removed mine last week, and the temp is still at 30 degrees Celsius, in my room. Right now, it's 27.2...

It has been warmer here in Michigan. I personally think its the sun it has been very active not just sunspots but other activity also. The long scratches like looking on the sun that can produce Hyder flares. So this summer could be very warm if it keeps up. But who knows to many things can change the weather to say. peace out...

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This makes sense and I considered this possibility when reading the other threads about the extreme solar flares current facing and pelting us.

With that said, I'm not a scientist and this may sound somewhat naive, but I haven't been able to find anything that shows a correlation between solar flares and a rise in earth's temperature. It makes sense in theory but I can't locate any scientific correlation.

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Thanks for the contribution, Amanda5. If your theories are correct, let's hope that there are enough of us still around to have a collective "Aha" moment.

to you but not the subject matter at hand.

There is no WTF going on with weather in Pacific Northwest. so far....

Well, I've been searching the net for the last 30 minutes trying to find some type of historical temperature figures and am have an extremely difficult time tracking one down. Enough for today and more tomorrow. Thanks everyone for your thoughts and ideas.

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www.esrl.noaa.gov...
try that, might be what your looking for

The best historical figures I've found on the net are the
world sea surface tempurature records.

Here is a video of the temperature variations, month by month, from 1983 - 1998.





And here is a link to the current world sea surface tempurature.
wisconsin.edu / sst


David Grouchy

La Canada, CA, USA - 11/28/11 - 79.9/44 F

I should note that it should be in the upper 70's, low 80's tomorrow, and then the forecast says it will drop to the low 60's by Thursday. A week ago, we were in the 50's-60's with LOTS of rain.

Wikipedia Says:

December and January are the coolest months with typical highs in the high 60s (F) and lows in the mid-40s.

But I can tell you that the last couple of years, the highs during that time, really, has been mid-50's, high-40's, with lows in the mid-30's. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised at all to get snow this year, something that hasn't occurred since I was in the 5th grade (I'm 36).

This summer, while it could get brutal, seemed less harsh, although still plenty of our usual fire danger. In other words, we didn't have 105+ degree temps for weeks on end. And the winter seems more harsh. That's all anecdotal to my experience though - being in the foothills, we're sometimes a little weirder than the valleys in weather.

The biggest problem with weather threads is that peoples memories are hopeless and the older we get the worse they get.

I will give an analogy as an example.
A boy fish's every holiday and has days where he sits and doesn't get a nibble and other days where he catches a bucket full.
10 years go by and he remembers his fishing time, what he remembers most is the days he got the bucket full and forgets the days he gets nothing as they are less important.
70 years go by and now he is telling his grandkids about how when he was there age he would catch bucket fulls of fish from that very spot all the time.

we remember the memorable and forget the mundane, we have weather daily and I guarantee that everyone can remember a great thunder storm or a blizzard but find it hard to remember the weather from last week and even harder to remember the weather from a few years back.

Mother nature changes and weather is cyclical,
research done on a 2000 year old Pyrite Coral discovered that a region had a 7 year cycle on average and that every 7 years was the wettest and it would gradually get drier and drier every year and the 7th got the rain again.

living for 70 years would give you 10 cycles of 7 year wet seasons, that is 70 summers of which 7 had large rainfall, looking back how many do you think would be remembered correctly?

I remember when we had huge rainfalls every year

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Yup. It's been warm. Yesterday broke the previous record (for the date) set in 1990.

Here's some good archival stuff. Take your time; daily, weekly, monthly records.
www.wunderground.com...

Actually here in Houston it has been colder than usual. We have a low of 34º today, so not quite freezing but a bit chilly for Houston. But I was looking at a readout of the US earlier to see what was going on, if I drove south a hundred miles I would have be sitting in 70º weather.

This is not new to us here though, we have been noticing the changes. We had record high temps and had a drought during the summer. My tomato plants barely survived, I am just now harvesting them, alot of them are still green.

I do think it has to do with the earthquake activity in Japan as that moved the earth by a very small fraction, also I have been paying close attention to some predictions by Edgar Cayce.

He predicted that Syria would be in a conflict and no other countries would go in and help them until it was destroyed, he's been right so far.

He also predicted that the great lakes would dump out through the Mississippi River, into the gulf.

I would have to say after the weather we saw last summer, the flooding over there and the drought here, so far he sounds pretty accurate.

Hi there. Central MN here. we've defiantly been far above average here this fall. Had 6in of snow just before Thanksgiving it all melted away thanksgiving weekend. Thanksgiving day temp here was recorded at 54. had a cold snap before that. not sure if we broke records or not. But one thing I've Noticed about this fall is the horses have not put on much of a winter coat yet, which is quite strange, granted the mild fall so far, but they usually put on coats long before it gets fridged.

The End is neigh!, Or so they say. But hey lets enjoy the temps anyway

Good thread

Here in Sweden it has been a record mild autumn. At the end of October, in the north of the country, there was no snow at all - since they have been keeping records that has only ever happened once before in 1953.

Here in the south it is also relatively mild for the time of year. Today we have around 7.5 C (46 F) whereas the average is 4 C (39 F) and interestingly, exactly one year ago we had -7 C (19 F), so I'm not complaining too loud.

There has also been very little snowfall in the Alps this year due to unseasonably mild conditions so there certainly does appear to be something weird going on across the European continent, not just in parts of the US.

cornwall, uk here. It's been really warm here recently, last week I had a dandelion flowering in my garden and flowers blloming outside my front door. Have a look at this

Daffodils flower in mild autumn at Eden Project

Don Murray, chairman of horticulture, said: "Cornwall is used to early flowering, however, the extra special and quite bizarre, warm temperatures this November really are more akin to spring."

bonkers!