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Old January 4th 19, 07:26 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Radey Shouman
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On Thursday, January 3, 2019 at 5:52:54 PM UTC-6, Radey Shouman wrote:
" writes:

On Thursday, January 3, 2019 at 2:21:29 PM UTC-6, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 1/3/2019 2:09 PM, wrote:
On Thursday, January 3, 2019 at 9:10:57 AM UTC-6, jbeattie wrote:

I couldn't imagine living in the Mid West or some place where
there was snow on the ground for long periods of time and below
zero F on a regular basis. I'd move to Phoenix.

-- Jay Beattie.

Due to Global Warming, the Midwest has not had a real winter in
more than a decade. In Des Moines today, right in the middle of
the Midwest, its 36 degrees and Zero snow. Going to be in the 40s
or 50s highs for the next week. In early January??? It does snow
two or three times each winter. An inch or two that sticks around
for less than a week. But the roads are cleared in a few hours
and easily rideable with studded tires. You only need studs for a
few days of the year. Rest of the time rubber works perfectly.
If it wasn't dark for 16 hours a day, you would never even know it
was winter in the Midwest.

It varies. It's been warm in Ohio this winter, but examining weather
records, of the top 10 snowiest Januaries, six of them occurred since
2000. Likewise, seven of the 10 snowiest Februaries.

Records at that location have been kept since at least 1931 (maybe
longer) so that's nine decades. Those results are statistically odd.


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- Frank Krygowski

Snow does not mean cold. Its snowed where I live when its 33-34-35
degrees. But 33-34-35 degrees is WARM for January and February. So
its very easy to have global warming and lots of snow. I suspect all
the extra warmth in the air causes the water in oceans and lakes to
heat up and evaporate into the air. And then once the water is in the
air, it has to fall out of the air by either rain or snow. And it
seems we have two or three hurricanes every year too. More evidence
of global warming.


On the other hand, 2018 saw the fewest (total) deaths from tornadoes in
the US since 1875.

https://weather.com/storms/tornado/n...est-since-1875

Italy seems to have had an unusual number, however.

Must be global warming.

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https://www.statista.com/statistics/...us-since-1995/

Not sure the number of deaths from tornadoes means much. The above
website shows the number of tornadoes from 1995 to 2017. Total
tornadoes each year jump around a bit but seem to stay in a similar
range over the two decades. Deaths from tornadoes really depends on
where they happen to hit. If there are lots of tornadoes in Kansas
and Oklahoma, probably very few people will be killed because both
states don't have a lot of people. And all the people in those states
live in a few big cities. Otherwise its all empty farmland. You
could have thousands of tornadoes hitting empty farmland and kill no
one. Or one tornado hitting a big city and kill 1000 people.

Number of tornadoes and people killed by tornadoes is very different
than flooding and people killed by floods. With flooding you pretty
much know where its going to flood. If there is a flood, people will
likely die. You know where the people live and you know if they live
in a flood plain. But with tornadoes, you don't know where they will
hit and whether they hit where people live.


My point exactly. You said that it seems we have "two or three"
hurricanes a year, which is quite a small number. Hence, I assume, you
really meant hurricanes that (a) strike land, (b) cause significant
damage (c) in the US.

Hurricanes at sea used to be a real problem for navigation, but in these
days of weather sattelites and radio, not so much. 2018 was a bad
hurricane year for Mexico, not to mention a bad cyclone season for Asia
and the Indian subcontinent. Had you been considering those I think
your "two or three" might have been "eight or nine".


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