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The Gore Effect now spreads from Copenhagen to Texas :
As someone who survived this blizzard in Texas, let me clarify something for those who don't know much about geography here. The blizzard conditions were in a limited area outlined in the attached map. We got a inch or two of snow in Dallas, it melted and refroze Thur. night and was gone by noon Fri.
Here's the kicker though. We get snow in North Central Texas this time of year. We also have high winds at certain times of the year. We get a lot more high winds than we do snow however, which is likely why we've never had a blizzard recorded in these parts (Oklahoma has them all the time) until now - the conditions hadn't occured simultaneously.
And remember, you don't even need snow falling to have a blizzard, it's the wind that is the deciding factor.
Blizzard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Scientists: "human influence is leading to higher average temperatures and disturbed weather patterns"
Voegelins: "look at this unusual weather from Texas! It's the best possible evidence that nothing is wrong!"
Winter precip isn't even all that unusual here. It's uncommon. If you look at the attached map, Wichita Falls (where I lived for 7 years), which was the epicenter of Thr. storm gets 3-4 winter events every year. Dallas-Fort Worth (16 years) gets 1-2 on average. In Jan. '87 Wichita Falls was glazed with snow and ice and we had take a drive south. The roads were clear by the time we made it to D-FW. On Thanksgiving '93 we had a huge icestorm in D-FW that shut down everything for 2 days. On Valentines '05 we had 3-5 inches of fat, wet fluffy snow that was wonderful, even if you had to drive on it like I did.
I think Voegelin had visions of Buffalo in '78, but almost all the snow is gone in less than 24 hours.
Freak weather patterns can be attributed to climate change...warming, cooling, more powerful, more eratic, more frequent.
Continuing what I was writing above, this storm and any winter precip we get this year is from a known source - El Nino. Contrary to the popular belief of some, it does get cold in North Texas and all we need is some Pacific moisture headed our why when there's a cold front and it's a White Christmas.
It's all about extremes cause remember, the sun doesn't give us HEAT, it gives us ENERGY. There is a difference.
Rambot could have phrased that more elegently, but he's right. Thermal heat doesn't travel well (at all actually) in a vacuum. What we receive from the sun is energy in the form of infrared radiation. Obviously it does manifest as heat once it contacts the atmosphere, but it's a different physical dynamic than when your furnace turns on and blows hot air into your living room.
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