75 in Denver. No snow in Denver so far this Autumn season. Think that might be a record now that we are into December.
Might hit 80 in Dallas today, have been mid to upper 70s all week. We are about 20 above normal for this time of year.
I mean to speak nothing of acting like the smartest person in the room by more or less verbatim regurgitating O&G propaganda
yeah but the "trump is the most lgbtq friendly candidate ever" quote is only 5.5 years old and it makes me want to shove him in a locker and bully him relentlessly
it doesn’t quite rate with bragging about calling his students the n word but is extraordinarily ironically self congratulatory
Prefacing this by saying Pete Ricketts fucking sucks and thank God he's term limited but... How about just celebrating a positive without trying to assign a scapegoat for everything?
This was years of work. This was from local elections and grassroots campaigns getting people elected who believed in climate change/moving towards renewable resources. I helped my uncle run a couple of these campaigns and getting them elected. Pretty proud right now.
Isn’t the biggest utility in the state building a couple natural gas combustion engine turbine facilities in and around Omaha?
Desiray Cartledge, 3, stands in the rubble of her house in Dawson Springs, Kentucky on Sunday, December 12, 2021. (Photo: Austin Anthony for The Washington Post via Getty Images) Jake Johnson December 13, 2021 As emergency workers and local residents sifted through the wreckage of towns left devastated by the tornado system that hammered six U.S. states over the weekend, the youth-led Sunrise Movement implored policymakers to "call it what it is: a climate disaster"—and act accordingly. "People's homes have been demolished, 40,000 people are without power, and there are so many unanswered questions that the government should have solutions for," said Rachael Fantasia, hub coordinator of Sunrise Bowling Green, a Kentucky city where more than 500 houses were reportedly destroyed by tornadoes that left dozens dead in the state. "This climate disaster is about our electeds failing us, choosing to water down and delay climate bills." "The greed from elites, politicians, and the wealthy strikes the South to the core—we are again left with no government support, pulling each other out of the rubble to survive," Fantasia added. "We demand the government's assistance or they will no longer mean anything to us—we aren't asking, we demand change. Kentucky needs Build Back Better now." Described as among the most severe tornado systems in recorded U.S. history—with at least 36 twisters detected across the South and Midwest—the extreme weather slammed communities across Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, and Tennessee, leaving a confirmed death toll of close to 100 as local officials continue to survey the damage and attempt to chart the long path to recovery. While numerous factors have the potential to influence the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, scientists argued in the tornadoes' wake that rapidly warming temperatures likely propelled the destructive system. "The models that we're currently using to diagnose the impacts of climate change on these extreme weather events if anything are actually underestimating the impact that climate change is having," Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Penn State, said in an appearance on MSNBC. "Climate change is changing the jet stream," Mann continued, "giving us more of these stalled weather patterns and these very large undulations in the jet stream that give us big high pressures, big low pressures, and extreme weather events." "This isn't a natural disaster," Mann added in a Democracy Now! interview Monday morning. "This is a disaster that was exacerbated by human-caused climate change." Even before the swarm of tornadoes ravaged a large swath of the country, the U.S. in 2021 was already on pace for the most billion-dollar extreme weather disasters since records began. "This is going to be our new normal, and the effects that we're seeing from climate change are the crisis of our generation," FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell said on CNN Sunday morning. "We'll continue to work on helping to reduce the impacts, but we're also prepared to respond to any community that gets impacted by one of these severe events." "We do see tornadoes in December, that part is not unusual, but at this magnitude, I don't think we've ever seen one this late in the year," said Criswell. "The severity and the amount of time this tornado, or these tornadoes, spent on the ground is unprecedented." On top of grassroots mutual aid efforts and the federal government's immediate emergency response, the Sunrise Movement stressed that sweeping climate action—including but not limited to the $550 billion in funding for climate programs in Democrats' Build Back Better Act—is imperative to quickly build out resilient infrastructure and drive down the carbon emissions that are fueling planetary heating. "This climate disaster is about our electeds failing us, choosing to water down and delay climate bills instead of investing in infrastructure that will keep people safe," said Varshini Prakash, Sunrise's executive director. "And this suffering is at the expense of working families, who have to make the impossible decision of working to feed their families or fleeing to save their lives." "Our politicians must fight for us," she added. "Kentucky needs direct cash payments and FEMA assistance quickly and to anyone who needs it. BBB must pass. It is the bare minimum." Greenpeace USA echoed that message on Twitter. "Historic warm temperatures fueled the tornadoes," the group wrote. "Our elected leaders must help these communities now and commit to real climate action."
WMO announced Tuesday that a town (Verkhoyansk, Russia) 71 miles north of the Arctic Circle reached 100.4 degrees F last June. Temps typically top out at 60. Completely debunked. Spoiler Siberian town topped 100 degrees, a new Arctic record By Mary Gilbert, AccuWeather meteorologist Published Dec. 14, 2021 10:57 AM MST | Updated Dec. 14, 2021 12:34 PM MST A brutal heat wave in the summer of 2020 left some portions of the Arctic Circle sweltering as temperatures soared to levels more typical of the Mediterranean. Now, meteorologists have confirmed a temperature recorded during the worst of the heat was so unusual that it prompted a new category of record-keeping. On Tuesday, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the official weather agency of the United Nations, announced that it had verified that the high temperature in the town of Verkhoyansk, Russia, on June 20, 2020, climbed to 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius). The temperature is the first to hold the newly minted title of highest recorded temperature at or north of the Arctic Circle, defined as 66.5 degrees north. AccuWeather forecasters say temperatures typically top out at only around 60 F (15.5 C) by mid-June in Verkhoyansk, a town located 71 miles (115 km) north of the Arctic Circle. The town's meteorological observation station has been in operation for more than 135 years, dating back to 1885. https://www.accuweather.com/en/climate/siberian-town-topped-100-degrees-a-new-arctic-record/1062264
This city also has the record for coldest temp, -90.0°F 190° temperature swing is wild. For reference, we only have a 165° difference (-66° to 99°)
45 in St. Paul MN. We got 20” of snow two weeks ago. That had already melted a week ago, and the 2-3 inches we got last weekend melted off today.
Got up to 79. We had pie down by the pool watching TV. Kids were pissed because they didn't bring clothes for these temps Current temp is 68
77 tomorrow and 70s until the weekend. Haven’t even come close to snow in the NE Ga mountains. This sucks.
8 today, big snowstorm tomorrow and some more Tuesday. after Monday it'll be below zero or close to it for 10days.