This is precisely why I think most of us on here look up to you, because you make sense with every post. Almost all of the rest of us (myself included) are guilty of taking positions that don't, for various reasons.
The point I'm making is that if you have the coldest winter on record. Then based on averaging, you would then need the summer to be twice as hot above normal to get the average to be overall hottest on record for the yr. I realize that is dumbing it down quite a bit, generalizing quite a bit, etc. But especially when we saw the brutally cold winter in euroope a couple yrs ago, yet that summer wasnt out of the ordinary hot, it makes it hard to believe we have this continuous "hottest yr ever" streak happening.
search by yr with the upper tab it goes back to 1950. and yes there were tornadoes back in the day.
I'm not saying you're wrong that the climate is changing. It may or may not be. But as a point of fact, Mobile and Baldwin counties are historically an Alabama hotspot for tornadoes. All I can say is that maybe during your first 50 years, you just didn't become aware of them until recently.
Yes, but I couldn't tell what you were trying to say. Of course there were tornadoes. IIRC, the first recorded tornado in the history of Alabama occurred in Mobile-Washington Co.'s and occurred in 1774. I may be off by a few years and it may not be the first.
Yes, if the mass/volume is increasing that would be good news as it offsets whats happening in the Atctic
that is partially the problem with the area vs volume measurements and what makes the discussion a little more complicated than it simply being a number greater than or less than x yrs ago. a mile thick ice is obviously different than an inch thick ice even if they cover the same area. likewise, if arctic ice reduces area by 10 square miles, yet thickens on average 40 feet, then what do we pull out of that? add in arctic currents, and how they may reduce ice in one area and add ice in another and now we really complicate the issue. now add in a factor of what is more important:
Yeah, I was thinking about that as I was typing.
I just avoid the subject, or, if he drags the conversation into that direction, I leave the room for a while.Ah! The family "aginner"...
because they happened outside of Mobile (at the time they hit) and were in unincorporated areas of the county...? So, yes, we probably would not have heard about them when I was 1-10. Weather reporting was nowhere near what it is today. I stick with my "none in Mobile 'proper' " except the last 15-20 years. A lot of these locations were well outside of the city limits (at the time) when they hit, and in sparsely populated areas (at the time). and some of them on the list I am looking at have a "'0" under the F-scale - waterspout maybe? Doesn't it actually have to be an F1 at least to be a tornado? If not, then, yeah, we have had thousands. As for the year with no summer....no, at 61 I don't remember that. Since I played outside all summer long since I was 3 I think I might have remembered.I'm not saying you're wrong that the climate is changing. It may or may not be. But as a point of fact, Mobile and Baldwin counties are historically an Alabama hotspot for tornadoes. All I can say is that maybe during your first 50 years, you just didn't become aware of them until recently.
As for temperature variability, the United States is actually on a downswing for the number of records set per year as compared to past decades. That says nothing about whether or not the US is, on average, warmer or cooler than it was in the past. But we do set fewer records nowadays than we used to. So maybe a low of 60 in July is shocking to you. But in the grand scheme of things, it's really not that unusual to set a new record. By the way, the record low for Mobile for the upcoming month of August (which for Mobile is statistically just as warm as July) is 59 according to the Southeast Regional Climate Center, 57 according to the Weather Channel.
No. An F0 is still a tornado. Most waterspouts are FO-strength, though truly, you really need to look at the damage it caused to measure its strength on the Fujita scale. Unfortunately (or fortunately), there's very little damage to inspect out over the water.
