CAPE

Clearly the climate has changed over the history of Earth. Not even disputable. The reasons are varied. Its mind boggling that so many want to deny that the reason its changing now is largely attributed to the industrial age.

You do know though lol.

Climate change is settled science though. That's all that matters on a scientific, fact based forum. The politicization of it is completely irrelevant. I mean, some believe the earth is flat, but that is factually incorrect.

I actually teach marine engineers who work on NOAA research vessels. They will be out of work.

Yeah I brought this up earlier. Its gonna happen, and this is a science based weather forum. Taking the chainsaw to NOAA isn't pertinent or discussion worthy?

As I mentioned in some previous posts, this is likely the beginning of our last gasp window for a potential winter storm, ending around the the 10th. Pretty decent signal for a coastal low here with possible frozen precip.

You can't change the minds of the willfully ignorant. You will learn that with experience.

I thought that was my storm lol! The storm (window) claim thing is super amusing lately. I mean I had the one in 2022, but to be fair we were in a complete shit the blinds pattern of despair when I saw the potential way out. And it actually happened. That is my one and only "storm claim". And it was more of a recognition of a major pattern change along with the potential to produce a snowstorm pretty quickly. I retired after that one.

I wasn't referring to approval rating. That is historically bad for this early in a presidency. I meant nearly half of the electorate actually voted for this shit.

Nothing about the fucked up political situation is going to be fixed by bringing it here though. Unfortunately nearly half this country thinks what's going on is awesome. Engagement is futile. This is simply and sadly where we are at.

Sometimes there is overlap. As a scientific community with a focus on weather and climate, this shouldn't just be brushed aside or ignored because it is 'politics'. https://www.npr.org/2025/02/15/nx-s1-5297183/noaa-national-weather-service-trump?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5157377-trump-administration-noaa-cuts-imminent/

https://glenallenweather.com/alink/18snow/snowmaps2/Great Atlantic coastal snowstorms.pdf https://www.glenallenweather.com/historylinks/history2/vawxhistory.pdf

This is probably the most likely period overall for something interesting to occur.

Drinking a Wicked Weed Perni-Haze IPA. Kinda been bored with the NE style Hazys for awhile, but picked it up as a single big beer can just for the hell of it. Rather enjoying it to my surprise. It seems quite good, but might just be that I haven't been into these much lately so a nice change of pace.

As of now, this window looks like maybe the best chance for something wintry- in the form of a southern stream shortwave ejecting eastward and riding the thermal boundary just to our south with cold air pressing.