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The polar vortex is hitting the brakes

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Re: The polar vortex is hitting the brakes

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Post by hallway_monitor »

dataviz1000 wrote: post #29
3eb7988a1663 wrote: post #16

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That has been touted around before, but what does the military do? I assume they are extremely aware of their supply chain and would not want to source weather from a commercial entity. Will NORAD start doing clandestine weather modelling to be able to plan troop/ship movements?

I was a private yacht chef for 6 years. I would always source weather from https://www.metoc.navy.mil/ and plan meals around it. I'm pretty good with a Japanese chef's knife in 8 foot seas.

His cuts on dry land: ~~~

Re: The polar vortex is hitting the brakes

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Post by artursapek »

beAbU wrote: post #60
artursapek wrote: post #49

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0 is cold as fuck, 100 is hot as fuck. Perfect human scale. Stay jelly

-40 - cold as fuck, 40 - hot as fuck. 0 - shit freezes, better drive carefully. I don't understand why this is always breought out when farenheit is criticized, as if the 0F-100F thing is the "killer app" for temperature scales.

In what country do people encounter -40 degrees

Re: The polar vortex is hitting the brakes

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Post by OKRainbowKid »

kulahan wrote: post #38
fredsmith219 wrote: post #27

I’m amazed that climate.gov hasn’t been taken down yet.

I honestly figured it’d be one of the first. That being said, France, UK, and USA are all moving towards more nuclear power. It might be at the point where it’s no longer possible to pretend we care about solar/wind, and can no longer realistically ignore climate change. I’ve been saying for years that we’d know when governments were finally getting scared of climate change because we’d see real, very fast moves to i…

I don't understand why acknowledgment of climate change would lead to nuclear over solar/wind.

Re: The polar vortex is hitting the brakes

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Post by timschmidt »

artursapek wrote: post #62
beAbU wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

-40 - cold as fuck, 40 - hot as fuck. 0 - shit freezes, better drive carefully. I don't understand why this is always breought out when farenheit is criticized, as if the 0F-100F thing is the "killer app" for temperature scales.

In what country do people encounter -40 degrees

We had a -40F windchill day here in Michigan a few years ago.

Re: The polar vortex is hitting the brakes

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Post by techright75 »

msy wrote: post #17
3eb7988a1663 wrote: post #16

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That has been touted around before, but what does the military do? I assume they are extremely aware of their supply chain and would not want to source weather from a commercial entity. Will NORAD start doing clandestine weather modelling to be able to plan troop/ship movements?

They’re briefing Elon Musk on China war plans, I don’t think the current leadership will care much where they source weather data as long as it aligns with the current ideological purity purge.

There's no proof he was part of any briefing, and pretty much everyone has denied this has happened. You need to diversify your news sources beyond the ones that confirm your beliefs, truthful or not.

Re: The polar vortex is hitting the brakes

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Post by nukem222 »

chrismcb wrote: post #51
inetknght wrote: post #46

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Nah, Celsius is useful if you're a human. Fahrenheit is useful if you're an American.

If you are used to Celsius, sure. But the point the op was making is Fahrenheit was designed with humans in mind and Celsius with the changes of the state of water. Your average person didn't really care what temperature water boils at, just that it is hot.

> Fahrenheit was designed with humans in mind

If there was a design, it's not clear what the intent was. It seems about twice as precise as it needs to be (i certainly can't perceive 1F°—for all intents and purposes, 70 feels about the same as 69 and 71) and doesn't seem to correlate to any scale that is immediately based off the needs of humans. At least compared to celcius.

Re: The polar vortex is hitting the brakes

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Post by hallway_monitor »

stevenbedrick wrote: post #50
neuroelectron wrote: post #32

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Seems like the DOGE cuts were overhyped after all. Honestly, anything connected to Trump is overhyped. He has a protective aura of noise. You're not going to figure out what's going on by just reading headlines.

I’m here to say that the cuts to the NSF, NIH, DoE (both energy and education) and IRS are not overhyped at all; if anything they are badly underhyped. What is overhyped is the actual “savings” that they are producing with all of this.

What would you cut? I don’t know what I would, but I do know that the United States is heading for a financial apocalypse unless drastic measures are taken now.

I know there’s a lot of hysteria around this, but I’m still at the place where I can be optimistic that the US will come out ahead. At least they’re doing something besides spending more money and acting like everything‘s OK. From a long-term financial stability standpoint it’s really not.

Re: The polar vortex is hitting the brakes

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Post by nukem222 »

artursapek wrote: post #62
beAbU wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

-40 - cold as fuck, 40 - hot as fuck. 0 - shit freezes, better drive carefully. I don't understand why this is always breought out when farenheit is criticized, as if the 0F-100F thing is the "killer app" for temperature scales.

In what country do people encounter -40 degrees

Russia, canada, sweden, norway, finland, us... probably missing a few. Edit: mongolia too, I think.

curiously, nothing in the southern hemisphere?

Re: The polar vortex is hitting the brakes

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Post by renewiltord »

kulahan wrote: post #38
fredsmith219 wrote: post #27

I’m amazed that climate.gov hasn’t been taken down yet.

I honestly figured it’d be one of the first. That being said, France, UK, and USA are all moving towards more nuclear power. It might be at the point where it’s no longer possible to pretend we care about solar/wind, and can no longer realistically ignore climate change. I’ve been saying for years that we’d know when governments were finally getting scared of climate change because we’d see real, very fast moves to i…

One of the best things to come out of destroying environmentalism is that we can finally get working on renewable energy instead of being blocked by suicidal environmentalists who find wind farms too ugly.

Re: The polar vortex is hitting the brakes

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Post by jandrewrogers »

tomjakubowski wrote: post #30
__egb__ wrote: post #21

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The Navy already does forecasting for the DoD. They have their own computing facility (called Fleet Numerical) in California and run their own models.

Curious if they use NWS weather station data or if they collect their own.

It is pretty much an independent system. There are only a handful of organizations on the planet operating an independent global weather model. For historical reasons the US operates two of them. A good argument can be made that the European model is better than either, so it might make sense for the US to combine some of those global weather model resources.
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