April 2025 Discussion/Obs

[MANDA]

6 hours ago, winterwarlock said:

I can't hate this idea enough

100% agree.  The planet is what about 4.5 billion years old, give or take a half billion.  Just when exactly was the climate not changing?

To think we're going to change anything by driving around in plug in cars and silencing cow farts is absurd.  Experiments to dim sunlight?

Yeah, that will end well.

[donsutherland1]

Today was another delightful spring day. Readings rose into the 70s.

The warm weather will continue through the week. It will turn somewhat cooler but remain mild during the weekend. A moderate rainfall is possible during the weekend.

The ENSO Region 1+2 anomaly was +0.6°C and the Region 3.4 anomaly was -0.2°C for the week centered around April 16. For the past six weeks, the ENSO Region 1+2 anomaly has averaged +1.08°C and the ENSO Region 3.4 anomaly has averaged 0.00°C. Neutral ENSO conditions will likely continue through at least early summer.

Early indications are that summer 2025 will be warmer than normal in the New York City and Philadelphia areas. The potential exists for a much warmer than normal summer (more than 1° above normal).

The SOI was -7.79 today.

The preliminary Arctic Oscillation (AO) was -0.743 today.

Based on sensitivity analysis applied to the latest guidance, there is an implied 88% probability that New York City will have a warmer than normal April (1991-2020 normal). April will likely finish with a mean temperature near 54.8° (1.1° above normal).

 

[LongBeachSurfFreak]

4 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

The Saint, isn't that based on a well known old TV series?

Val Kilmer was one of the very best. RIP, Val.

 

Maybe? I’m not sure, that’s before my time. In the 90s movie this cute scientist discovers cold fusion and Val cons her and steals the formula she keeps in her brah. The interesting thing is, the Russian oligarchs try to steal it first because fusion is really bad when you make billions off natural gas. 
That has to be a major deferent to making fusion a reality. Exon Mobil isn’t about to start paying for fusion research. 

[Sundog]

21 minutes ago, MANDA said:

100% agree.  The planet is what about 4.5 billion years old, give or take a half billion.  Just when exactly was the climate not changing?

To think we're going to change anything by driving around in plug in cars and silencing cow farts is absurd.  Experiments to dim sunlight?

Yeah, that will end well.

There is natural variation in climate and then there's human induced changes. 

Just like you can die of natural causes or of a drug overdose. One was a natural death, the other self inflicted. 

Right now humanity is a major drug addict lol

[Sundog]

There should be a nice sea breeze both tomorrow and Friday for the coast keeping temps down to comfortable levels (for me) after mid afternoon. 

[Sundog]

5 minutes ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

Maybe? I’m not sure, that’s before my time. In the 90s movie this cute scientist discovers cold fusion and Val cons her and steals the formula she keeps in her brah. The interesting thing is, the Russian oligarchs try to steal it first because fusion is really bad when you make billions off natural gas. 
That has to be a major deferent to making fusion a reality. Exon Mobil isn’t about to start paying for fusion research. 

Fusion is going to make a lot of enemies, even renewable energy companies. 

I think of plastic recycling, supposedly it was good for the environment. It's actually really bad, as it produces an immense amount of microplastics.  

Good luck trying to shut down the plastic recycling industry! Haha

[SRRTA22]

Very faint smoke smell in bayonne

[MJO812]

I smell the smoke from the wildfires

[SRRTA22]

5 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

I smell the smoke from the wildfires

Yeah it smells like it's coming in waves

I also smell the beach haha

Itd be cool to see red skies again tomorrow doubt it happens though 

[MJO812]

Just now, SRRTA22 said:

Yeah it smells like it's coming in waves

I also smell the beach haha

Going to be alittle worse tomorrow with the stronger winds.

[SRRTA22]

4 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

Going to be alittle worse tomorrow with the stronger winds.

Also though we're not in a severe drought , things are still extremely dry and with thunderstorm season coming up , going to be easy for lightning to spark more wildfires 

[Snowlover11]

Got a whiff of the smoke coming across the TZ just now. Very faint.