Community Chat

[Luv2Decorate]

On 2/16/2015 esmeraldagooch said: Since when are they forecasting weather in 85 years? Perhaps they should go back to space exploration and leave the weather to NOAA.

To create hype to get more money from taxpayer's perhaps??

IF this is true, maybe they should quit spending billions on green energy and come up with an economical way to desalinate the sea water.

[BaileyandBella]

I haven't heard about much snow this year in Denver or Salt Lake City.....is Colorado and Utah starting to have drought issues too?

[gardenman]

Aren't we all supposed to be under water from the rise in seawater by then too? If the seawater rises and we have a drought we could have the unique experience of drowning in a drought. I've seen way too many long range forecasts go horribly wrong to trust them. Back in the seventies (I think) after a few bad winters in a row there was talk that we were in a new ice age and we had to act immediately to prevent a disaster. There was talk of building massive manmade concrete mountain ranges to shield the bigger northern cities from the inevitable advance of the glaciers. There's always some massive danger lurking in the distant future that we must act now to prevent. The funny thing is these dangers never seem to arrive.

[BaileyandBella]

OK..help me understand..... I am in So Cal.

So, we won't get rain when there is a High Pressure system over us, blocking storms from coming.....correct?

So, how does Greenhouse Emissions affect High or Low Pressures?

[BaileyandBella]

On 2/16/2015 gardenman said: Aren't we all supposed to be under water from the rise in seawater by then too? If the seawater rises and we have a drought we could have the unique experience of drowning in a drought. I've seen way too many long range forecasts go horribly wrong to trust them. Back in the seventies (I think) after a few bad winters in a row there was talk that we were in a new ice age and we had to act immediately to prevent a disaster. There was talk of building massive manmade concrete mountain ranges to shield the bigger northern cities from the inevitable advance of the glaciers. There's always some massive danger lurking in the distant future that we must act now to prevent. The funny thing is these dangers never seem to arrive.

Really?

[RainCityGirl]

Unless we get a record snowfall in the next two months in the mountains of my state, we may be in for a drought, even though the rains here have caused flooding on and off. In the summers, we depend on the melted run off for not only water, but for water power to bring us electricity. Right now, there isn't even enough snow for skiing, which is a big winter industry. It's February and the temps are in the high 50's and low 60's. With the global warming at the poles, we ARE experiencing climate extremes in many places. I have noticed even a huge change in my area just since I came over here for college and stayed.

[BaileyandBella]

My son asked why we cannot get all the rain and snow from back East out here to CA.

I told him it would cost a FORTUNE and by the time they were done, the drought would be over.....

[BaileyandBella]

Our weather is getting crazy.

Mammoth (the High Sierras) recently had a storm where it snowed for a few hours and then they had massive RAIN!!!!

It never rains in Mammoth in February.

[Free2be]

That's hilarious that anyone could think a wall of concrete would stop a glacier. Apart from that bit of wisdom, studies on glacier melting reflects continuing melting even with precipitation.

[goodstuff]

It makes sense to take sensible measures to preserve our water supply and environment.

On the other hand, our local weather "experts" predicted snow today, and so far there's nothing here but cold, drizzling rain. They often miss weather predictions just hours or days ahead......so how much confidence should we have in forecasts that are years or decades ahead?