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posted by martyb on Friday October 11 2019, @02:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the Brrrr! dept.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/09/winter-storm-aubrey-historic-snow-cold-forecast-central-us/3918343002/

A "potentially historic" winter storm will slam the north-central USA over the next few days with up to 2 feet of snow possible in some areas.

Snow will accumulate from eastern Washington and Montana to Colorado, the Dakotas, Minnesota and northern Wisconsin, the Weather Channel said. Record low temperatures are also possible Thursday and Friday across the western USA.

The system will produce severe storms and heavy rain Thursday in the southern Plains and critical-to-extreme fire weather threats from the central and southern Rockies to California, the National Weather Service said.

The size and intensity of this snowstorm are unheard of for October, according to AccuWeather.

[...] A slew of winter storm warnings, watches and freeze warnings were in effect across parts of seven states as the storm ramped up Wednesday, AccuWeather said.

[...] The storm will have two parts, the first of which is targeting the northern and central Rockies and High Plains on Wednesday into Thursday. The second part will bring snow to the eastern and central portions of the Dakotas and western Minnesota by week's end.

"Near-blizzard to full-fledged blizzard conditions are possible across portions of central North Dakota Friday afternoon into Saturday morning," the weather service in Bismarck said. "Expect high impacts and dangerous to impossible travel conditions."

The weather service called it a "potentially historic October winter storm."

Meanwhile, locations in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, India, and Australia (among others) reported temperatures well over 100°F (38 C)!


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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 11 2019, @09:30PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 11 2019, @09:30PM (#906059)

    You run the models with old data and if the predictions don't match actual conditions you fix the model. Rinse and repeat til they match. You hope future predictions will be accurate. You don't have nor will you every have the resources to completely model the atmosphere/ocean. You don't gloss over past errors.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday October 12 2019, @01:19AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday October 12 2019, @01:19AM (#906137) Journal

    He's not arguing in good faith, you know. He's already made up his mind, such as it is, and now devotes his energy to lazy pseudo-gotchas. Anything, *anything,* so he doesn't have to change his behavior or thoughts.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday October 12 2019, @03:07AM (1 child)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday October 12 2019, @03:07AM (#906192) Journal

    You don't have nor will you every have the resources to completely model the atmosphere/ocean.

    They have more than enough resources to reach a predetermined destination. My take is that climate research from about 1980 to perhaps 2030 will become a well known case of when science went wrong for a fairly long time, something like Lysenkoism in the USSR during the Stalinist era.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 12 2019, @05:44PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 12 2019, @05:44PM (#906393)

      It's obvious you studied modeling at the Barizon School of Modeling.