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Devil in details: not really snow and example of fake news (or just a catchy headline for the dimwits)

The Philadelphia/Mount Holly office of the National Weather Service logged the total daily snowfall over the Pennsylvania airport that afternoon — and noted that it broke the old record for July 14 set in 1870.

The trace amount of snow recorded in the report was actually small hail that poured down during a thunderstorm, the agency said.
 

Hump

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Couple of days ago we had a reported 176 wildfires here in BC, with 70 out of control.

Couple days of lightning strikes (mostly) later and we are over 300 fires now burning.
Don't know how many not controlled.

Evacuation notices and orders being enforced.

Dry as a popcorn fart with lots of vegetation to burn courtesy of a wet Spring, that encouraged good growth.

The creek I work on and have a 61-year long relationship with has run dry at its lower end, only 30 feet or so from the pond it feeds. Got hundreds of Coho salmon fry trapped above that area too.

First cool day here in over two weeks, which is a real blessing as I've got some sanding to do on my Tyee rowboat and can handle these temps.




Take care.



Take care.
 
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GromsDad

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You always talk about how the historical record is such a small insignificant sampling...then you post two months of data, in a small geographically area, to prove your point?

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That was in direct response to Hump's post above mine which cited local wildfires as if they are climate change. Lower temps in July in Nebraska are just as valid as local wildfires in British Columbia.
 

One-Off

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That was in direct response to Hump's post above mine which cited local wildfires as if they are climate change. Lower temps in July in Nebraska are just as valid as local wildfires in British Columbia.
Year after year records are broken but nothing is happening, amirite?

 
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GromsDad

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It's over- the entire planet is on fire.

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Hottest, yes, but only as it is relative to the last 150 years. There are no records before the period of 1850-1900, so this comparison of "hottest" means absolutely nothing in the context of geologic time—4.6 billion years of Earth's existence. To put that in context, this fearmongering represents approximately 0.00000326% of the time the Earth has existed. It's idiotic for humans to baseline our modern era, as it isn't even a fart in the wind in terms of time. Soft versus hard science.
 
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PRCD

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Hottest, yes, but only as it is relative to the last 150 years. There are no records before the period of 1850-1900, so this comparison of "hottest" means absolutely nothing in the context of geologic time—4.6 billion years of Earth's existence. To put that in context, this fearmongering represents approximately 0.00000326% of the time the Earth has existed. It's idiotic for humans to baseline our modern era, as it isn't even a fart in the wind in terms of time. Soft versus hard science.
It's simpler than this - they just compressed the color scale.
 
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