Summer forecast doesn’t hold water (Plains Dust Bowl Redux?)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/apr/18/summer_forecast_doesnt_hold_water/

A dire weather forecast issued Monday calls for a hot, dry summer across the Plains reminiscent of the 1930s — the era of the devastating Dust Bowl drought.

The Pennsylvania-based forecasting service AccuWeather.com predicts a high-pressure system will be parked across the central United States much of the summer. The system would lead to scorching-hot days and prevent moisture from coming into the region — something that in turn causes even higher temperatures.

“It’s kind of a vicious cycle,” said Ken Reeves, the company’s director of forecasting operations. “Drought begets heat begets more drought.”

The forecast said it was possible that temperatures in some states would challenge the seemingly untouchable heat records set during the 1930s. But Mary Knapp, Kansas’ state climatologist, is skeptical.

[electron_blue]

1. is this prediction also made by weather forecasters not owned by Santorum?

[RamboLiberal]

4. This is the outfit that Santorum wanted to privatize the weather

forecasting to.

[sidpleasant]

18. Santorum doesn't own Accuweather, Accuweather owns Santorum.

And it cost the company a measley $4000 to have their own lackey in the Senate.

[Rex]

2. Yeah climate change is a real bitch when you help it happen.

It's not like that pesky weekend shower. Shit stays and changes the region. Shitty shitty. Watch for summer heat to hit 120 in May and those rolling blackouts!

[RamboLiberal]

6. I find it amazing it's already hitting near 100 in Texas

Only mid-April. Well one good thing for me, I work for an HVAC outfit (Air Conditioning). My bosses will probably be smiling all summer.

Except I fear this country has the worst President in history and is heading for The Great Depression Redux.

What Dem is our FDR? Gore? Edwards? Feingold? Someone else?

[HeeBGBz]

7. It's been in the 90's all week in southern Missouri

I've been miserably hot already in April.

[Rex]

8. 99 here in San Antonio

one point shy of a record.

[kineneb]

10. You are welcome to visit Northern California

Up here in the "costal ranges", where we are at about 130%+ of normal for rainfall, so far. It frosted here this morning, and I think it got up to a whopping 68 deg. We probably won't get summer until June. Of course, then it will get hot here, for about 3.5 months, and then back to cool, wet weather. Oh, and I didn't mention, when it gets hot, the humidity drops to around 30% or less.

[barb162]

14. that sounds really plelasant

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

17. It is.

Unfortunately, that's part of the reason why a modest ranch house there costs half a million dollars, minimum.

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. Global warming................ what say you georgie?

[Tom Joad]

5. Damn, not again.

[AwareOne]

9. In Central Florida, it has been hot, windy and dry

we have had one significant rain in about 8 weeks, we are in a drought and the whole area is ripe for forest fires.

[alfredo]

11. Of course come June you could have some significant

weather that will relieve your drought, and play 52 card pick up with your towns and cities.

[oscar111]

12. ORBITING SUNSHADE.. can cool the planet

to a max of May temperatures, if big enough

Or a more modest few degrees, if you are a conservative-acting sort.... hmmmmmmm...and only build a smaller sunshade.
LOL.



http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/01/15/archive/main264362.shtml

[NickB79]

13. Already been debunked on the Evironmental Board

Solar wind would blow a 1200-mile dish out of orbit fairly rapidly.

[barb162]

15. very scary story; saw a woman who lives in Phoenix

and she was talking about the drought there. No rain for over a hundred days until it rained a few weeks ago. The cactus in the deserts are dying

[JCMach1]

16. Flip Side: Devastating Hurricanes for Florida during the same

time period...

The clockwise circulation around the high pressure would tend to steer storms to the east coast, or florida.

[supernova]

19. We're down about 6-7 inches here in NC Piedmont

I haven't seen it this dry in ages.