EF5's and hurricanes and stood up just fine.
I won't post links (too spammy) but you can look up cement bunker-tornado protection-you'll find lots of them.
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#ClimateChange & Weather reports.
Started by Shortpoet-GTD, Nov 13 2011 12:23 PM
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#81
Posted 06 April 2012 - 04:34 PM
I know those cement bunkers are selling like hotcakes in tornado alley. They've been tested against
EF5's and hurricanes and stood up just fine.
I won't post links (too spammy) but you can look up cement bunker-tornado protection-you'll find lots of them.
EF5's and hurricanes and stood up just fine.
I won't post links (too spammy) but you can look up cement bunker-tornado protection-you'll find lots of them.
#82
Posted 06 April 2012 - 04:41 PM
Shortpoet-GTD, on 06 April 2012 - 04:34 PM, said:
I know those cement bunkers are selling like hotcakes in tornado alley. They've been tested against
EF5's and hurricanes and stood up just fine.
I won't post links (too spammy) but you can look up cement bunker-tornado protection-you'll find lots of them.
EF5's and hurricanes and stood up just fine.
I won't post links (too spammy) but you can look up cement bunker-tornado protection-you'll find lots of them.
As much as I would love for my brother to have one for him and his little family, I don't think it's in their price range.
#83
Posted 06 April 2012 - 04:46 PM
dkramarczyk, on 06 April 2012 - 04:41 PM, said:
As much as I would love for my brother to have one for him and his little family, I don't think it's in their price range.
http://www.ehow.com/...er-shelter.html
#84
Posted 07 April 2012 - 01:36 PM
We have had some crazy weather and had days of it being way too warm for the season. The last couple of weeks have been a little closer to normal for us. We have had 50's which is often normal for us in April. March had quite a bit of abnormal days tho.
Today is sunny, a little breezy and hit a high of 57. This is more normal then the almost 80 we had in March!!
Today is sunny, a little breezy and hit a high of 57. This is more normal then the almost 80 we had in March!!
#85
Posted 08 April 2012 - 04:50 AM
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) —
"A spring snowfall has broken the nearly 60-year-old seasonal snow record of Alaska's largest city.
Inundated with nearly double the snow they're used to,
Anchorage residents have been expecting to see this season's snowfall surpass the record of 132.6 inches set in the
winter of 1954-55.
The 3.4 inches that fell by Saturday afternoon brings the total to 133.6 inches.
Extreme weather has hit not only Alaska.
It's also struck the lower 48, where the first three months of 2012 has seen twice the normal number
of tornadoes and one of the warmest winters on record." (Duh)
http://www.huffingto....html?ref=green
"A spring snowfall has broken the nearly 60-year-old seasonal snow record of Alaska's largest city.
Inundated with nearly double the snow they're used to,
Anchorage residents have been expecting to see this season's snowfall surpass the record of 132.6 inches set in the
winter of 1954-55.
The 3.4 inches that fell by Saturday afternoon brings the total to 133.6 inches.
Extreme weather has hit not only Alaska.
It's also struck the lower 48, where the first three months of 2012 has seen twice the normal number
of tornadoes and one of the warmest winters on record." (Duh)
http://www.huffingto....html?ref=green
#86
Posted 08 April 2012 - 04:46 PM
Shortpoet-GTD, on 08 April 2012 - 04:50 AM, said:
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) —
"A spring snowfall has broken the nearly 60-year-old seasonal snow record of Alaska's largest city.
Inundated with nearly double the snow they're used to,
Anchorage residents have been expecting to see this season's snowfall surpass the record of 132.6 inches set in the
winter of 1954-55.
The 3.4 inches that fell by Saturday afternoon brings the total to 133.6 inches.
Extreme weather has hit not only Alaska.
It's also struck the lower 48, where the first three months of 2012 has seen twice the normal number
of tornadoes and one of the warmest winters on record." (Duh)
http://www.huffingto....html?ref=green
"A spring snowfall has broken the nearly 60-year-old seasonal snow record of Alaska's largest city.
Inundated with nearly double the snow they're used to,
Anchorage residents have been expecting to see this season's snowfall surpass the record of 132.6 inches set in the
winter of 1954-55.
The 3.4 inches that fell by Saturday afternoon brings the total to 133.6 inches.
Extreme weather has hit not only Alaska.
It's also struck the lower 48, where the first three months of 2012 has seen twice the normal number
of tornadoes and one of the warmest winters on record." (Duh)
http://www.huffingto....html?ref=green
I have a friend in Anchorage who says she's never seen a winter like this one there. Crazy snow. And when it starts to melt I imagine it's going to cause a few problems too. We finally have warm sunny weather. Temps in the mid 60s (that's warm for us) and flowers popping up. They're predicting 70 on Tuesday, which is warmer than normal, but only for one day. I stand by my thinking that we're just not going to be able to figure out what's normal from here on out.
#89
Posted 10 April 2012 - 04:43 AM
Ok guys, hold onto your socks! 
"A staggering 15,292 warm temperature records were broken,
(7,755 record highs and 7,517 record high overnight lows), according to Chris Vaccaro, spokesperson for NOAA.
"That's tremendously excessive. The scope and the scale of warmth was really unprecedented, Vaccaro said.
March 2012 will go down as the warmest March in the United States since record-keeping began in 1895,
NOAA said Monday.
In addition, the three-month period of January, February and March was the warmest first quarter ever
recorded in the Lower 48 states.
The average was 42 degrees Fahrenheit, a whopping 6 degrees above the long term average."
http://www.env-econ....al-warming.html
But I'm sure the sandies will continue to scream "hoax."
"A staggering 15,292 warm temperature records were broken,
(7,755 record highs and 7,517 record high overnight lows), according to Chris Vaccaro, spokesperson for NOAA.
"That's tremendously excessive. The scope and the scale of warmth was really unprecedented, Vaccaro said.
March 2012 will go down as the warmest March in the United States since record-keeping began in 1895,
NOAA said Monday.
In addition, the three-month period of January, February and March was the warmest first quarter ever
recorded in the Lower 48 states.
The average was 42 degrees Fahrenheit, a whopping 6 degrees above the long term average."
http://www.env-econ....al-warming.html
But I'm sure the sandies will continue to scream "hoax."
#91
Posted 10 April 2012 - 10:07 AM
eds, on 10 April 2012 - 05:52 AM, said:
WAKE UP! . . . Climate Change, Learn to live with it.
Although climate change isn't necessarily a good thing, I wanted to point out that this image is absolutely beautiful. I don't know why, maybe because it really shows the difference and it really shows what people are doing to this planet.
#94
Posted 15 April 2012 - 03:57 AM
2012 is shaping up to be another bumper crop season for tornadoes.
And fires too. Many states are burning as we speak. (Granted, fires are not weather or climate, but drought
drives this destruction.)
http://i.huffpost.co....jpg?1334470712
And fires too. Many states are burning as we speak. (Granted, fires are not weather or climate, but drought
drives this destruction.)
http://i.huffpost.co....jpg?1334470712
#95
Posted 15 April 2012 - 06:29 AM
Short Poet started this thread to post weather conditions around the country, temperature, rainfall, snow fall storms and so on. For myself personally, I thought it would be good because it provided a record to compare from people all over the United States. In my work, I spend a lot of my time talking to companies about maximizing water resources, integrating water management and water and energy, so it provided me with a good comparison to share with people when I discuss the relationship of current weather to our ongoing water resources.
Here is a little information regarding this area.
The little town of Masterson Texas was the closest town to the area of the huge hail storm, it sits between Amarillo and Dumas Texas in Moore County, it’s in the area of the Northern Panhandle very close to where my husband family cattle ranch is. The weather has always been unpredictable and rain, well it’s rare, usually around 12 inches a year, not much. People lives and livelihood depend on how well they understand and can try to predict the areas weather and water resources.
The current tornado season demonstrates just how volatile the weather can be. Called tornado alley for decades for good reason, now more are occurring earlier and are more sever when compared against 1998 and onward and tracked to records from the last 100 years. Simply there are more F3, F4, and F5 tornado.s happening earlier and at 2 to 3 time’s normal levels over the last 100 years. The reason being that the arid plains and grasslands trap more heat than forested areas, generating the heat engine that collide with colder air masses coming from the western mountains.
This is all in stark contrast to the drought which has gripped this area for so long. My husband family stopped running cattle in 2010 as the drought that has been escalating for the last 12 years got much worse. In 2011 the severe drought killed trees that were over 50 years old. Lake Meredith which provides water to 14 Texas towns in this area is at record lows of 30 feet compared to the record high of 101 feet in 1973. Like the drought it has been dropping for almost 14 years straight. It depends 100% on rainfall. Unlike South Texas, which had flooding in some areas of 2011, these northern areas are away from the Gulf of Mexico monsoon weather currents. Literally these are a tender box away from starting what geologist call mass desertification events.
So put together severe storms that generate lots of lightening, high winds, and tornado's and very little rain, accept in little localized extreme cases and the risk of fire goes way up. State disaster experts are already warning that this fire season may be another new record.For me personally a huge example of how climate change has been and continues to affecting the central United States.
In this area of the country farmers and ranchers depend on the Ogallala Aquifer ( the largest in the United States) to provide water to an area from South Dakota in the North to Midland and Odessa Texas to the South, that generates over 60% of the Beef Cattle, 80% of the Cotton. The reason is that about 27 percent of the irrigated land in the United States overlies this aquifer system, which yields about 30 percent of the nation's ground water used for irrigation. In addition, the aquifer system provides drinking water to 82 percent of the people who live within the aquifer boundary of 8 states. The Ogallala is an unconfined aquifer, and virtually all recharge comes from rainwater and snowmelt. As the High Plains has a semiarid climate, recharge is minimal and has been dropping due to the droughts and overuse.
Now this is purely personal; I believe we are seeing the Central Plains of the United States transforming from Semi Arid to more desert like conditions over a very short period of time. Literally I believe the desertification of the Central Area of the United States above and surrounding the Ogallala Aquifer. Sorry for the long post but, again personally this is one of the biggest reasons why I became a believer in climate change almost 20 years ago and realized the role weather was going to have on water resources in the future.
Here is a little information regarding this area.
The little town of Masterson Texas was the closest town to the area of the huge hail storm, it sits between Amarillo and Dumas Texas in Moore County, it’s in the area of the Northern Panhandle very close to where my husband family cattle ranch is. The weather has always been unpredictable and rain, well it’s rare, usually around 12 inches a year, not much. People lives and livelihood depend on how well they understand and can try to predict the areas weather and water resources.
The current tornado season demonstrates just how volatile the weather can be. Called tornado alley for decades for good reason, now more are occurring earlier and are more sever when compared against 1998 and onward and tracked to records from the last 100 years. Simply there are more F3, F4, and F5 tornado.s happening earlier and at 2 to 3 time’s normal levels over the last 100 years. The reason being that the arid plains and grasslands trap more heat than forested areas, generating the heat engine that collide with colder air masses coming from the western mountains.
This is all in stark contrast to the drought which has gripped this area for so long. My husband family stopped running cattle in 2010 as the drought that has been escalating for the last 12 years got much worse. In 2011 the severe drought killed trees that were over 50 years old. Lake Meredith which provides water to 14 Texas towns in this area is at record lows of 30 feet compared to the record high of 101 feet in 1973. Like the drought it has been dropping for almost 14 years straight. It depends 100% on rainfall. Unlike South Texas, which had flooding in some areas of 2011, these northern areas are away from the Gulf of Mexico monsoon weather currents. Literally these are a tender box away from starting what geologist call mass desertification events.
So put together severe storms that generate lots of lightening, high winds, and tornado's and very little rain, accept in little localized extreme cases and the risk of fire goes way up. State disaster experts are already warning that this fire season may be another new record.For me personally a huge example of how climate change has been and continues to affecting the central United States.
In this area of the country farmers and ranchers depend on the Ogallala Aquifer ( the largest in the United States) to provide water to an area from South Dakota in the North to Midland and Odessa Texas to the South, that generates over 60% of the Beef Cattle, 80% of the Cotton. The reason is that about 27 percent of the irrigated land in the United States overlies this aquifer system, which yields about 30 percent of the nation's ground water used for irrigation. In addition, the aquifer system provides drinking water to 82 percent of the people who live within the aquifer boundary of 8 states. The Ogallala is an unconfined aquifer, and virtually all recharge comes from rainwater and snowmelt. As the High Plains has a semiarid climate, recharge is minimal and has been dropping due to the droughts and overuse.
Now this is purely personal; I believe we are seeing the Central Plains of the United States transforming from Semi Arid to more desert like conditions over a very short period of time. Literally I believe the desertification of the Central Area of the United States above and surrounding the Ogallala Aquifer. Sorry for the long post but, again personally this is one of the biggest reasons why I became a believer in climate change almost 20 years ago and realized the role weather was going to have on water resources in the future.
#96
Posted 15 April 2012 - 07:30 AM
Wisconsin has been very, very dry. Our fire warning for the last few weeks has been at "very high" due to the lack of snow this winter and lack of rain thus far this spring.
Today, RAIN. I'm not complaining. It is much needed. It rained hard all night and into this morning.
Today, RAIN. I'm not complaining. It is much needed. It rained hard all night and into this morning.
#97
Posted 15 April 2012 - 11:48 AM
E3 wise, on 15 April 2012 - 06:29 AM, said:
the drought which has gripped this area for so long.
Every day last year, I'd drive by an apartment complex that was watering the easement in front of their fence.
70-80% of the water ended up in the drain, and every day, I'd call the city to complain.
And you guessed it, nothing was ever done about it.
At least Vegas is dealing with their water issues.
Amarillo? They're clueless.
They'll wait until they're down to that last 2 inches of water in Lake Meredith and then maybe they'll say,
"hey, wait a minute."
And guess who built another car wash?
You got it. walmart.
#98
Posted 15 April 2012 - 04:34 PM
Insects seems to be anywhere, not just regular insects but some of them really weird that seems to be sort of mutant species because many look so weird.
However I read somewhere out there that this is happening due to global warming, responsible for speeding up insect breeding.
However I read somewhere out there that this is happening due to global warming, responsible for speeding up insect breeding.
It is never 90 in April. We also had close to 90 one day in March which is just unbelievable here. Still no real rain here either.
#100
Posted 15 April 2012 - 07:32 PM
I have plastic containers along the ground,
. . . under the roof, in the back of the house,
. . . that are 1/4 full, from a couple of flash rain storms,
. . . that lasted less than 1/2 hour, in New Hampshire.
I use them to water flower, berry, and vegetable, gardens,
. . . around the property.
We had one serious ice storm, last Oct.,
. . . only a few dustings of snow the rest of the Winter,
. . . and just this tiny April Shower.
Last year, Fla was the only State, that didn't get snow,
. . . neighbor just came back from Fla.
. . . with tale's of 120 degree temp this year.
. . . under the roof, in the back of the house,
. . . that are 1/4 full, from a couple of flash rain storms,
. . . that lasted less than 1/2 hour, in New Hampshire.
I use them to water flower, berry, and vegetable, gardens,
. . . around the property.
We had one serious ice storm, last Oct.,
. . . only a few dustings of snow the rest of the Winter,
. . . and just this tiny April Shower.
Last year, Fla was the only State, that didn't get snow,
. . . neighbor just came back from Fla.
. . . with tale's of 120 degree temp this year.
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