Finally for the first time in what seems like forever there isn't any rain in the forecast for at least four more days. It's either been too wet or too cold to really get out and get much done this spring... mainly too wet I can handle a little cold It was even warm enough to open the windows and air out the house today.

 

Weather.

What happens when you can't get off the road in your tank.

Spoiler

 

It's raining fire.
https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/idOV813815052022RP1

 

Yes, humans are changing the climate.

https://phys.org/news/2022-05-hidden-backstory-deadly-pacific-northwest.html

The heat wave began on June 26, 2021.

Previous record high temperatures shattered one after the other, by huge margins. Streetcar cables melted in Portland, Oregon; pavement buckled across the region. Before it was over, a town in Canadian British Columbia tied Death Valley for the highest temperature ever recorded in North America—121 degrees Fahrenheit.

But the conditions had been set in motion weeks before. Using data collected from satellites and on the ground, UChicago scientists set out to re-create the sequence of events.
...
This is especially important as we try to understand how climate change will affect the world. Scientists worry that we are approaching—or have already approached—a tipping point in the alteration of the Earth's atmosphere, after which extreme events become much more likely. Other scientific studies have estimated that the magnitude of the Pacific Northwest heat wave was "virtually impossible" without climate change.

"There is increased urgency and interest in understanding the prospects for future heat waves," said Nakamura. "We're looking forward to begin using this framework to dissect data in a meaningful way, to actually see the important processes and driving forces behind events.

"Since the heating mechanism identified in this work involves condensation of water vapor into clouds, the intensity of atmospheric blocking and heat waves will likely increase in the future as the warming climate allows more water vapor to be present in the atmosphere," he said.

 

Yes, humans are changing the climate.

Great article. But I couldn't find a statement such as that humans are changing the climate. Don't get me wrong, I do believe that is actually the case. I just want to see it in red so I can share it with other people.

 

Great article. But I couldn't find a statement such as that humans are changing the climate. Don't get me wrong, I do believe that is actually the case. I just want to see it in red so I can share it with other people.

That article didn't go into detail as it was mainly about the mechanism for the localized heating event in the PNW being amplified by human caused climate change.

https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/are-humans-major-cause-global-warming

Natural drivers + human drivers best match reality
When natural and human-induced climate drivers are compared to one another, the human influences are so large that they crowd out other climate drivers over the past half century, producing the warming that we’re all experiencing. Put another way, when climate scientists focus only on natural climate drivers, their models cannot accurately reproduce the observed warming of the past half century. But when the models also include human-induced climate drivers, they accurately capture recent temperature increases in the atmosphere and in the oceans.

In fact, studies show that human activity is responsible for more than half of the warming observed since 1951.

This evidence has led organizations like the IPCC to conclude that the effects of heat-trapping gases and other human activities are both detectable throughout the climate system and “extremely likely to have been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.”

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/are-humans-causing-or-contributing-global-warming

 

That article didn't go into detail as it was mainly about the mechanism for the localized heating event in the PNW being amplified by human caused climate change.

https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/are-humans-major-cause-global-warming

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/are-humans-causing-or-contributing-global-warming
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Excellent graph ... I've seen it before but I lost its source. Now I can share it with others.
Can you post the link to that graph?

Thanks!

 

Excellent graph ... I've seen it before but I lost its source. Now I can share it with others.
Can you post the link to that graph?

Thanks!

Never mind ... after a little digging, I found the graph here.

 

Walking in Tropical rain.

 

 

No drought for us.

https://www.kptv.com/2022/06/09/atmospheric-river-bringing-wet-weather-portland/

 

 

It's so hard to get reservations there, I feel for the people that must leave.


From a 2019 trip to the park.

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/22/1106721110/yellowstone-national-park-reopens-after-floods

WAPITI, Wyo. — Hundreds of cars, trucks and recreational vehicles were backed up in long lines at entrances to Yellowstone National Park as it partially reopened Wednesday morning following record floods that reshaped the park's rivers and canyons, wiped out numerous roads and left some areas famous for their wildlife viewing inaccessible, possibly for months to come.

Park managers raised the gates at three of Yellowstone's five entrances for the first time since June 13, when 10,000 visitors were ordered out after rivers across northern Wyoming and southern Montana surged over their banks following a torrent of rainfall that accelerated the spring snowmelt.

A trip to the park should be on everyone's bucket list.

https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/threads/picture-this.110947/post-1410239

 

Finally, summer is here.

 

You are a little more toasty than we are. Two days of mid 90s but nice today at 80. Back to the 90s I think tomorrow. The dogs lay in front of the AC vents.

Ron

 

Except that was not “a house”. It was a multi unit apartment building for NPS employees. This bad reporting was one of several that I spotted from watching reporting on the floods. The worst was some news organization showing footage of the “Yellowstone”river rampaging through Red Lodge Montana. Except it’s Rock Creek that goes through Red Lodge. I prefer factual reporting, especially about events where my family lives.

 

Except that was not “a house”. It was a multi unit apartment building for NPS employees. This bad reporting was one of several that I spotted from watching reporting on the floods. The worst was some news organization showing footage of the “Yellowstone”river rampaging through Red Lodge Montana. Except it’s Rock Creek that goes through Red Lodge. I prefer factual reporting, especially about events where my family lives.

Not “a house”, does that really matter when it is housing? Most reports I saw called it correctly but I'm sure some didn't. Either way the people living there lost their personal possessions and a roof over their heads, that's tragic.

Yellowstone National Park Employee Housing Falls Into Flooded Yellowstone River - Gardiner, Montana

https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/management/housingfonsi.htm

The National Park Service is proposing construction of new employee housing units and renovation of buildings for use as housing by NPS employees, concessioners, and cooperating organizations in Yellowstone. The proposed development sites are located near the Mammoth Hot Springs area of Yellowstone; in Lower Mammoth and at the Young Adult Conservation Corps Camp (YACC Camp). Housing is also proposed on 6 NPS-owned lots in Gardiner, Montana.

 

https://www.accuweather.com/en/busi...llowing-historic-yellowstone-flooding/1206348

Red Lodge, with a population of just over 2,000 residents, has been cut off from visitors since the flooding and is preparing for a summer season that could result in a drop in tourism. For Yellowstone's 150th anniversary, the park had been expecting at least 1 million tourists, a plan that has been put on hold due to the damaging floods.

"Without the numbers of tourists that we typically get in the summer, we are definitely going to take a hit financially," Wondra stated.

In addition to a potential sharp drop in tourism, the Red Lodge area is also dealing with the post-flood cleanup process. The town's latest difficulties come on the heels of the drop in visitors over the past several years due to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as damaging forest fires.