Climate Change? Nahhh ...

Opened the windows for the first time in 10 days. RAIN!!!!!!

 

Covid takes a seat at the table, complicating woodland firefighting.

 

We take a pause from the California fires for a 4.5 earthquake last night at 11:38 p.m. PDT. Centered in the El Monte area of the San Gabriel Valley. I felt the jolt in Irvine in Orange County. I went to Facebook and friends were posting in Culver City, Santa Monica, Malibu and Simi Valley (85 miles north). No damage. We throw back 4.5s, but this one seemed pretty far-reaching.

 

Yeah, if I see Dr. Lucy in my feed when I sign on, something's shaking. Glad that wasn't worse.

 

I saw one thing from her: **50/50 5 percent chance this was a foreshock and a bigger one is on the way.

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Our temps have been nuts. We were full blown balls to the wall high 80s since July and have been low 70s the last two days. It's not supposed to be out of the 70s with night time lows in the 40s all this week.
Don't get me wrong, I welcome the break, but whatever happened to a gradual stepdown?

 

Seems bad.

Arctic sea ice shrank to its second lowest level on record, researchers announced on Monday. Sorry.

It’s typical for Arctic sea ice to melt in summer and freeze back up in winter. But thanks to a wild-ass, record-breaking heat waves in the Earth’s northernmost regions, this year’s minimum ice extent is anything but normal.

The National Snow and Ice Data Center’s data shows that on Sept. 15, Arctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum extent of 1.44 million square miles (3.74 million square kilometers), ranking behind only September 2012's minimum, when the lowest level on record was measured at 1.32 million square miles (3.41 million square kilometers). The minimum 969,000 square miles (2.51 million square kilometers) below the 1981 to 2010 average, which NSIDC helpfully notes is roughly equal to Alaska, Texas, and Montana combined. The 10 lowest sea ice extents have occurred in the past 13 years.

Ice declined especially quickly between Aug. 31 and Sept. 5, as warm air from the recent heat wave in Siberia—which would have been nearly impossible without the climate crisis—rose into the region. That six-day period marked the fastest rate of ice loss on record, according to NSIDC.​

Let’s turn those numbers into something normal people can understand:

 

King tides in the Florida Keys are causing flooding much more often than they used to.

National Weather Service Watch Warning Advisory Summary