Since 2006 , federally declared weather-related disasters in the United States have affected counties housing 242 million people--or roughly four out of five Americans. That's the remarkable finding of Environment America, who last week released a detailed report on extreme weather events in the U.S. The report analyzed FEMA data to study the number of federally declared weather-related disasters. More than 15 million Americans live in counties that have averaged one or more weather-related disasters per year since the beginning of 2006. Ten U.S. counties--six in Oklahoma, two in Nebraska, and one each in Missouri and South Dakota--have each experienced ten or more declared weather-related disasters since 2006. South Carolina was the only state without a weather-related disaster since 2006. The report did a nice job explaining the linkages between extreme weather events and climate change, and concluded, "The increasing evidence linking global warming to certain types of extreme weather events--underscored by the degree to which those events are already both a common and an extremely disruptive fact of life in the United States--suggests that the nation should take the steps needed now to prevent the worst impacts of global warming and to prepare for the changes that are inevitably coming down the road."
Figure 1. County-level map of federally-declared weather-related disasters between 2006 - 2011. Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms in the Midwest, and heavy rains and snows from Nor'easters, hurricanes, and other storms in the Northeast gave those two regions the most disaster declarations. An interactive version of this map that allows one to click and see the individual disasters by county is on the Environment America website.
Jeff Masters
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10 PM Final Warning 30 knots:)
btw, you know ima kiddin with the snowstorm. if one comes u best git 20 inches!!!
After passing Tampa the hurricane moved east-northeast across Florida moving off the Florida East Coast just north of Cape Canaveral. Many of the navigation routes were reported filled with sand and closed to traffic making any charts created prior to 1848 useless.
An interesting legend regarding the 1848 Hurricane is that it created a new pass through a barrier island which was discovered by a reformed pirate named John Levique. Today the pass is known as “John’s Pass“.
Just two weeks after this major hurricane nearly destroyed Tampa, a second hurricane visited the Florida West Coast on October 11-12th. A ship 20 miles southeast of Cape St. George reported northeast hurricane force winds causing its lee rail under water for eight hours. In Tampa this storm was not as intense as the earlier one; however, it did cause a storm surge to about 10ft in Tampa Bay.(2)
This is not the Florida I knew back in the 40's, 50', 60's, 70's, 80's, or 90's. Even though I was not always here, I spent enough time to have seen the changes. It is totally different. One could almost set their clocks by the rainfall in the summer months. I have nevuh, seen it so dry. It was never this hot either. We didn't have air-conditioning until the early 60's. We never had it in the schools. It has drastically changed.
I don't allow them.
There is no proof in religion.
Date 3 September 1965
Source NOAA Photo Library
Author NOAA/AOML/Hurricane Research Division.
That's the saddest part. Humans have the amazing ability to think and reason like no other species, and yet some of us just choose to be stubborn and ignorant. It's a waste really.
when you say 50's, do you mean the 1850's or 1750's? im confused.
What does he think of satan-worshiping music?
http://cleantechnica.com/2012/02/20/clean-energy- could-supply-u-s-with-70-of-electricity-by-2030-no aa-director-says/
70% from renewables without building any new storage.
And cheap.
That's from NOAA.
Think about how many good jobs that would create.
Sure, it can be "totally wrong". As much as other universally accepted theories like gravity, of course.
Due to the fact that my behavior was very good yesterday, and there was snow coming down, my mom reset my schoolwork and took what i had today off.
I think she made mistake. because, i dont have anything asigned for tomorrow!! :D
But i wont say nuthin till bedtime tomorrow....lol
Impossible. if he was chuck norris he would reach through my computer and smash my face into the keyboardfgbszzhkgsdahftjftjueklfbv
My problem is when people begin to force their relgion on others OR when they try to deny scientific theories in light of the Bible or simply God. Believing in a religion doesn't make you dumb, stupid or ignorant. Denying evidence without evidence makes you dumb, stupid and ignorant. If you say there is no evidence or deny all evidence for the big bang theory or theory of evolution you are being irrational.
It's just that simple people. We all have brains, we can all think and reason. Use your logic to your advantage.
Where in Florida did you not need AC in the 1950s? I'm guessing if it had been an option most would have had it. I know that we would have further north in Tennessee. Summers could be miserable.
We used to go to the St. Pete area for a couple of weeks in the summer and AC was something that would have been great. We made do with fans.
By the time I went to school in Tallahassee in the mid '60s classrooms and labs had AC. The few rooms that didn't were miserable.
I do agree about the change in rainfall. The Florida I grew up with was one in which it rained often. We used to go out at lunchtime and roll up our car windows for the afternoon rain. And then go out and roll them back down an hour or so before we left the lab.
And I remember no problems with fires of any size.
maybe grothar knew my dad.
my dad invented the caveman.
Because you are writing in something you are truly interested in and care about, which makes it easy. I hate writing papers for things I couldn't care less about, its hard.
tomtaylor prefers trouble over peace:) so he tries to start tings.
I have my left pinky and index finger taped together, I dislocated it playing basketball yesterday. I did play the whole game though like a boss.
i cant respond to any of it because i never see any of his comments without a quote box lol.
i had to untape my fingers, blood flow was getting disrupted xD
I see 120 kts of wind shear. what does that mean?
i love to play basketball with my neighbors down the street. 2 7th graders both 2 months older then me, about 5 inches shorter and 30lb lighter.
if we play to 10, the score is usually Me:10 them: 4
if we play to 20, its Me: 20 them: 8
if we play to 50, its Me: 50 them: 14
lol
be back tomorrow moOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOorning
I dunno I've heard he's into Slayer though.....
The kid learns fast!
No he doesn't.
Lol. How'd ya like getting this text? From the Jan. 25th outbreak.
Funnel Cloud near Ft Polk at 2:41 PM. Courtesy: KPLC TV
And I think I'm more agnostic myself since I can't prove god doesn't exist. If somehow he was proven to exist I'd probably still avoid organized religion though.
In Miami. The summers are not as hot the further South you go in Florida, especially near the coast. It is much hotter in the Central and Northern Part of the state in the summer. We often had a strong breeze and we rarely had temperatures in the 90's.
Here is a little bit from factoid. Although it did it 100 once last summer.
These are the ten all-time hottest weather temperature days recorded in the city of Miami, Florida. The temperature data for Miami dates back to 1895. Miami is the second hottest weather city in the United states, with an annual average daily temperature of 75.6 degrees.
Despite that fact, the temperature in Miami has only reached 100 degrees once since 1895. The hottest temperature ever recorded in Miami, Florida is exactly 100 degrees, which occurred on July 21, 1942. Miami is also a very humid city, which the beach goers, vacationers and snowbirds don't seem to mind at all, as they flock to the Miami area every year, making it one the most popular tourist destinations in the United States.
The hottest temperature ever recorded in the state of Florida is 109 degrees. The record temperature occurred on June 29, 1931 in Monticello, which is in the Florida Panhandle, northeast of Tallahassee.
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