Ongoing drought, pestilence, freeze, hail.....

[ashbeeigh]

Originally Posted by Ivory Lee Spurlock

The way the weather pattern has been in 2021, it's showing similarities to the weather pattern in 2011. In February of 2011, there was 70 consecutive hours of below freezing temperatures and power outtages causing frozen/busted water pipes followed by a summer with record drought, the Bastrop wild fires, extreme heat. Sounds just like winter of 2021. The hottest summer in history was in 2011.

This article from KXAN makes a good case for a long hot and dry summer in 2021..

https://www.kxan.com/weather/warning...sters-of-2011/

( Sent from KXAN News )

This is kind of a mic drop link. It’s science. And we’ve had rough years. I was in SA in 2011 and I don’t recall this winter storm at all, but I remember it being ungodly hot in the summer and the fires.

[ashbeeigh]

Originally Posted by Need4Camaro

I believe many of the systems that keep our weather in check and balance (such as Jet-streams and trade winds) are slowly, fading away... dying off like a failing wrist watch, which will lead to numerous more unpredictable weather events, and for Texas it will mean weather unpredictability on steroids.

Jet streams aren't systems in the same way that cold fronts, warm fronts or dry lines are. They are hat carry weather from place to place. They don't "die off." They will be stronger, they will move north and south and will dip and retreat north and south. I've been trying to take a step back from commenting on some things, but this is just non-sense. https://scijinks.gov/jet-stream/

[Need4Camaro]

Originally Posted by ashbeeigh

Jet streams aren't systems in the same way that cold fronts, warm fronts or dry lines are. They are hat carry weather from place to place. They don't "die off." They will be stronger, they will move north and south and will dip and retreat north and south. I've been trying to take a step back from commenting on some things, but this is just non-sense. https://scijinks.gov/jet-stream/

This is true when not accounting for global warming, but Jetstreams can be effected both in strength and location by climate change. By dieing off I meant severely weakened, not entirely dissipated, but to be rendered non-effective.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0219152855.htm

https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-...he-jet-stream/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_...imatic_changes

Climate scientists have hypothesized that the jet stream will gradually weaken as a result of global warming. Trends such as Arctic sea ice decline, reduced snow cover, evapotranspiration patterns, and other weather anomalies have caused the Arctic to heat up faster than other parts of the globe (polar amplification). This in turn reduces the temperature gradient that drives jet stream winds, which may eventually cause the jet stream to become weaker and more variable in its course.[57][58][59][60][61][62][63] As a consequence, extreme winter weather is expected to become more frequent. With a weaker jet stream, the Polar vortex has a higher probability to leak out of the polar area and bring extremely cold weather to the middle latitude regions.

[ashbeeigh]

Originally Posted by Need4Camaro

This is true when not accounting for global warming, but Jetstreams can be effected both in strength and location by climate change. By dieing off I meant severely weakened, not entirely dissipated, but to be rendered non-effective.

If you say so.

[Tyrone Shoes]

Locust and then boils....at some point first born and gnashing of teeth.

[10scoachrick]

I guess we should throw in the apparently never-ending upward spiral of housing costs here in cenTex.