Weather Today and Yesterday

[earl1937]

  Maybe we just have better reporting and observation tools today than yesterday, but it just seems as though the weather is getting more and more severe today than 40 or 50 years ago.
I can remember when a thunder storm with tops in the 25,000 foot range of height, was a "huge" storm and one to be feared and avoided at all costs. Now days, to give you an example, I flew a trip right before I retired to Cancun Mexico and there was a thunder storm about 50 miles North of Cancun and I was tooling along at 270 knots at 24,000 feet and I flew towards this thing for an hour and it never changed shapes, it was so big.
As I sit here this morning at 430 in the AM, we have huge thunderstorms all over the place this morning here in my area of the country and I don't ever remember one being around back in the 50 and 60's this time of day. Guess I have missed something somewhere. (and no, I am not a global warming nut)
Are we really living near the end of time or am I just getting more and more concerned as I get older? Sometimes I wonder where all this is going?

[Copprhed]

There is global warming, Earl, you can't release all the carbon that took millions of years to be absorbed into the earth, trees, oil, natural gas etc in the course of a few hundred years and not expect it to have an effect. Remember, they laughed at Galileo and Copernicus for saying that the earth circled the sun.

[earl1937]

There is global warming, Earl, you can't release all the carbon that took millions of years to be absorbed into the earth, trees, oil, natural gas etc in the course of a few hundred years and not expect it to have an effect. Remember, they laughed at Galileo and Copernicus for saying that the earth circled the sun.

I just said I was not a global warming nut, didn't say it wasn't happening! My problem with the global warming thing is that group of people who insist that the U.S, is responsible for all the global warming, so there fore we should solve the problem!
If there is global warming, then why is there more ice cap at the poles now than anytime in history?

[Copprhed]

Actually I've never heard anyone say that the Us is totally responsible, but we, until recently, have been the largest industrialized nation in the world. If you want an idea of what happens, check this out.   https://www.google.com/search?q=pictures+of+smog+in++England+during+the+industrial+revolutions&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=n-80Vd7DEce4oQSpg4GoCQ&ved=0CDMQ7Ak&biw=1680&bih=951

[PR3D4TOR]

This is Beijing, China. No that is not fog.

[zack1234]

Yes its the Chinese and nothing at all to do with US.

North Korea is to blame as well

It is well documented after the Great Flood with Noah and the $50k nuisnance elephants in the Ark there were no more storms.

I saw 6 magpies today is this the effect of ice on a pole and global warming?

[hgtonyvi]

It was really windy here today in NY and rainy a bit.

[zack1234]

 

Awesome

[CASHEW]

way to derail his topic.

[Estes]

I'm confused, this a different cashew? http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,371349.90.html

[Meatwad]

This is Beijing, China. No that is not fog.

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Looks like texas after a statewide chili cookoff

[guncrasher]

This is Beijing, China. No that is not fog.

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I moved to the usa in dec of 1979 los angeles to be exact.  6 months later or so the wind started blowing up really hard for a day or so.  the next morning I went to school and was amazed that we had mountains about 15 miles from my house.  the mountains are about what 7 or 8 thousand feet?  .  had never seen them before.


semp

[zack1234]

Were said mountains there before the inclement weather?

[hgtonyvi]

Yea thats a different CASHEW...I think so...OR might be his Spirit lurking on the forums.

[Chris79]

Actually, the incidents of severe weather and hurricanes have been on the decrease the past several years. I suspect the difference is even more profound today due to the fact that a good number of Tornados and a few hurricanes which could be detected today via advanced satallite and Doppler radar would have gone unnoticed 50 years ago. Another underlying factor pertaining to an "increase of severe weather" is the media namely the weather channel. Naming winter storms give me a break.