The Weather Thread

[ZZLPHeels]

Fair.
The C-130 hurricane hunter flight observation data 1850 vs 1925 vs 2024 really tells the story.

I don’t think any C-130s were flying in 1850 or 1925.

 

[aGDevil2k]

Did you let your kids walk on it (assuming some poor woman was drunk enough to pass out in your presence?)

Inquiry: why are insurance rates surging?

We went ice skating on a pond this winter. But while those freezes used to be common, it's only been possible twice in 9 years

 

[altmin]

We went ice skating on a pond this winter. But while those freezes used to be common, it's only been possible twice in 9 years

Nova Scotia stopped measuring lake ice two years ago because the warmer winters were producing conditions where it wasn't worth the money to go and do the testing due to so few iced over days.

 

[1moretimeagain]

 

[1moretimeagain]

Apparently there was a 7.2 magnitude earthquake near Alaska.

 

[Duke Mu]

https://kyweathercenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/GFS-2-5.png

I don't think this will create waves so big that the best surfers in the world wouldn't surf them, but it could be very wet in terms of water.

Yep. That's a Texas high pressure summer ridge. Frequent storms will flow around the top of it in a clockwise direction. For here it means: TOO DAMN HOT.

 

[Healing]

Yep. That's a Texas high pressure summer ridge. Frequent storms will flow around the top of it in a clockwise direction. For here it means: TOO DAMN HOT.

Shit. Just looked up one of the towns I lived in for a couple of years, outside of Dallas - looks like that pretty tame Texas summer is breaking bad. Currently 99 with an index of 112 and today is projected to be the coolest day in the next seven. Yuck.

 

[BillOfRights]

I don’t think any C-130s were flying in 1850 or 1925.

They used the airports from the Revolutionary War.

 

[Healing]

For MAGA, Ignorance is Strength

Research cuts aren’t about shrinking government, they’re about killing science

paulkrugman.substack.com

Since NOAA is a tiny budget item compared with Medicaid, what’s this about? Actually, there’s no mystery. Among other things, NOAA research helps us understand and predict climate change, and America’s right is firmly committed to climate denial. So Trump officials want to end research that might tell them things they don’t want to hear.

Why not eliminate only research directly focused on climate change? Because that’s not how it works. When you have a pervasive phenomenon like climate change just about any research into the weather will provide evidence that it’s happening. So the MAGA/Project 2025 solution is to stop almost all research.

The same logic lies behind the drastic cuts at the National Institutes of Health: They aren’t about saving money, they’re about preventing researchers from discovering things — like evidence that vaccines work and are safe — that don’t match the prejudices of the people in charge.

So Trump’s cuts to scientific research aren’t about shrinking government and saving money. They’re about dealing with possibly inconvenient evidence by covering the nation’s ears and shouting “La, la, la, we can’t hear you.”

Will the war on science hurt America? Massively. As I said, estimating the benefits of NOAA research is tricky. But two first-rate economists, David Cutler and Ed Glaeser, have made a stab at estimating the impact of cuts at NIH. Their analysis suggests that these cuts might save $500 billion in federal spending over the next 25 years — while imposing more than $8 trillion in losses.

But don’t expect studies like these to change policy. America is now run by people who believe that knowledge is dangerous, and ignorance is strength.