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Nice day here. Cloudy with temps in the 60s. Had strong winds and rain this morning. Feels like a Fall day.
Current map. Lets do some comparisons..
Omak, Washington 95°, Houston 90°
Bismarck, North Dakota 85°, Miami 86°
Sioux Falls, Iowa 79°, Atlanta 78°
Fort Wayne, Indiana 53°, Bangor Maine 54°
I was going to ask what you got down to this morning. Sounds like a chilly one.
1. There's no ice age.
2. It will take a decade or so after a cooling trend to classify it as one. Not sure if it has to be a continent, region or the globe.
3. Even in an ice age there is warming, something many forget. There will still be heat waves in the south and an annual warming trend in California for example.
4. Most the average warming trend has been the lows. More clouds around keeping nights warmer.. NYC Max temp Avg has been "DROPPING" since the 1990s while the lows still increasing.
5. Next time a map is posted find the biggest anomaly. That area is putting the entire continent or globe "over the top" otherwise most areas is no big deal..
6. The peak of the warming trend happened when the solar cycle peaked. Now it will take time to cool down or level off.
7. Repeat this word over and over. Cyclical.
Don't want to get this thread off track, but as I understand it the current solar cycle (the one starting in 2008) has been extremely weak, and it peaked in 2011 with another mini-peak in 2014. So the warming really doesn't seem correlated to a solar peak to me.
I also know for sure that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, and I know for sure that atmospheric CO2 has hit 415 ppm for the first time in 800,000 years. There is no way warming won't continue and accelerate. Unless the sun (or our orbit) does something crazy and unprecedented.
Anyway I feel like I should say something on topic. This weather blows.
There's no ice age coming. Every area of CONUS has seen above average summers since 2010 including the Midwest
I think the swings are just more wild here. Also, I'm not so sure our summer temps have anything to do with sea ice reduction. Our current cool pattern is tied directly to the Modoki El Nino and the wet pattern that we've had here since April. So it's the Pacific not the Arctic that has been the drive (IMHO)
I am sick of people talking about a ice age. The planet will just keep warming. Only a nuke war will drop temps for 3 years and then it is back to rapid warming.
And the heat will finally return this weekend. Mid 90's expected. Slightly above average.
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