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Eric Swanson wrote:
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HR wrote:
"Al Bedo" wrote in message
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Fast Pat wrote:

More weird weather... i.e. rapid climate change

Make that rapid weather change.

No, make that just a continuation of the mindless spewing of little
snippets of irrelevant local weather reports.

Then tell us the last time 9 inches of rain was measured within a
two-day period or less in Alaska during the month of October.

When was the last time a little snippet of irrelevant local weather
reporting like this was made?

"The National Weather Service reported that 9 inches of rain had
fallen in Seward between noon Sunday and 5 p.m. Monday. Tom Dang of
the National Weather Service said the low pressure system that caused
the storm moved in on the jet stream from the Aleutian Islands,
pulling in tropical moisture that had welled there. ... "Within a half
hour there were chunks of ice -- I can only assume from Exit Glacier
-- flowing down Exit Glacier Road," ...

Climate is the statistics of weather. That includes record events,
though the statistical significance of any one local event is small.
Larger scale regional events are more interesting...

There's an outbreak of cold Arctic air moving south from Canada at the
moment. Jet stream winds are from the north over the Midwest, at about
160 mph. The radar this morning showed sleet in Missouri and that storm
is moving eastward such that it is now sleeting in Kentucky. I expect
snow/sleet on my head here in western North Carolina later this
afternoon and tonight, even though the present temperature is about 52
F. Sorry, I don't know the records for this sort of mess, but winter
does seem to be a little early this year. Many trees are still green
and have their leaves, thus a mix of sleet and freezing rain would
result in considerable damage.

--
Eric Swanson --- E-mail address: e_swanson(at)skybest.com :-)
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There is no such thing as "climate" anymore, only climate change. The
entire playing field for generating statitistics on weather events
undergoing rapid change.

Sleet in Missouri and Kentucky for this time of year has happened many
times since weather records began. 9 inches of rain in less than 48
hours during the second week of October near Seward Alaska probably
happened before but maybe not since the Eocene?


http://ecosyn.us/Temp_4/Bebinca_into...o_Alaska2.html

This is satellite imagery of remnants of Tropical Storm Bebinca moving into Alaska from the Pacific. It also
shows Bebinca and it's predecessor moving OUT of Alaska into CONUS.

If you want to see the origin of the weather in Kentucky you have to play back the satellite records to the
Philippines on October 2nd-4th, 2006.

Thus far we have viewed BEBINCA on Floater magnified View, NWPAC, and NEPAC views. To continue to
follow it requires going next to the WEUS and EAUS views and NATL.

Cloud masses don't spring into existence -- they form over time and are conspicuous objects from
Geostationary orbiting satellites. in 2006 NOAA opened up four geostationary satellites to public access.
Previous it was not possible to follow events across more than half the Northern Hemisphere from Africa to
Vietnam across the Atlantic and Pacific, and north to about Latitude 65 in mid-Alaska.

Since I am the only one collecting these ephemeral views I am the only one with the photographic record for
2006 of where every single storm came from and where it ended up.