Comments on: Quick Hits

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:11:18 +0000

The Florida Panhandle and much of the rest of the state is above 700 [out of 800] on the drought scale and under burn bans as Gulf moisture is drowning everything to the North. The local power company is replacing poles all over because they are drying out and splitting. Things are just weird.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:18:15 +0000

We just got rain here. In the last week of June. That doesn’t happen here. It just doesn’t. We have a rainy season and a dry season, and this is the dry season. It’s called the dry season because it is, duh, dry. But this year’s been ridiculously unusual. Our Jeep club is going to do our spring opening of our Jeep trail in the Sierras the SECOND WEEK OF JULY! We usually do that the third week of April, but even in the middle of May, the snow drifts were taller than our Jeeps! Crazy, crazy weather… and Mr. Duffer is gonna claim that some paper about hurricanes proves that everything’s just fine? WTF?

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 05:17:11 +0000

We’ve suddenly switched from a decade of drought to… “Ummm… the rain can stop now… Please!” We have now had floods over much of Aus in the past year. We now have snow in places it hasn’t been seen for years, and Winter started in May! We had tornado’s in Vic! Our Airports were closed for days because of the ash cloud from the Chilean volcano, and so on!

NZ is still copping a beating, and it doesn’t seem to be ending any time soon.

And most importantly, almost all of is is categorized as *unusual*!

“move along now! Nothing to see here… move along!”

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 04:12:28 +0000

Tsk, it is almost as if you would consider ‘striking’ a deal with one of the out of work weather gods 😈

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:31:16 +0000

“… based on the politics of the person being struck.”

Only in my dreams…

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:37:48 +0000

I’ve never seen a lightning bolt that moved right or left based on the politics of the person being struck.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:18:40 +0000

Bryan, none of that matters if your understanding of climate has an ideological component…

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:24:54 +0000

Mr. Duff, nothing in that paper contradicts anything Dr Masters said, and I don't think that the people of Maritime Canada would agree that 2010 was a slow year in as much as they experienced one of the most damaging hurricanes in their records, Igor. Nor would the people of Queensland feel it was a light year for storms given the effects of Super Typhoon Yasi. There was a very rapid switch from a strong El Niño to a strong La Niña which is not a usual occurence, but despite the presence of the La Niña, we had an active hurricane season. That is not the way things are supposed to happen. A lot of semi-permanent weather features, like the Bermuda High and the Summer Jet Stream, are not where they should be. Florida is having its hottest temperatures in June, rather than August. In the US there is massive flooding in the northern half of the country and drought to the south. Things are screwed up, and Dr Masters points out they were really screwed up last year all over the world. Hurricanes only make up a small portion of the overall weather picture.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 01:15:34 +0000

In reply to Steve Bates. The modem I'm getting has set-ups in firmware for most services, including mine, and costs under $45. It handles through ADSL 2+ and basically you talk to it through your browser, so you open the box, plug in the cables, and type in the IP address. I'll let you know if it works.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:59:59 +0000

My DSL modem has worked for well over 10 years now. It was a freebie with my first DSL account. They sent a technician to “install” it… oh, he installed it all right, and broke my LAN in the bargain. At the time, it was possible to buy one’s own DSL modem, same make and model, from a third-party source; I made sure of that before I committed to it. By now, if it goes out, I’m probably stuck with calling Ma Bell.

Stella’s DSL modem (yes, we have separate lines… mine used to be primarily for business) is one of those that store a username and password; I always forget that when I have to do something with it.