Category: Orlando

scary weather over orlando

whbeebe


Last year was the hottest, ever. The average temperature anomalies went way up compared to everything prior decade and stayed there.

There are already consequences showing up from this huge rise in global temperature anomalies. For one example, the crazy bad weather over Orlando this evening as you can see in the screen capture at the start.

And then this weather warning from Orange County:

Severe Thunderstorm WarningBeginning: 2024-01-09T22:21:00Ending: 2024-01-09T23:00:00New AlertTHE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...SEMINOLE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA...CENTRAL LAKE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA...ORANGE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA...VOLUSIA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA...NORTHWESTERN OSCEOLA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA...* UNTIL 600 PM EST.* AT 521 PM EST, SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINEEXTENDING FROM NEAR PIERSON TO ZELLWOOD TO 12 MILES WEST OF FOURCORNERS, MOVING NORTHEAST AT 70 MPH.HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS.SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS, SIDING, AND TREES.* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...ORLANDO, DELTONA, DAYTONA BEACH, KISSIMMEE, AND PORT ORANGE.PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...REMAIN ALERT FOR A POSSIBLE TORNADO! TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP QUICKLYFROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU SPOT A TORNADO GO AT ONCE TO ASMALL CENTRAL ROOM IN A STURDY STRUCTURE.FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF ABUILDING.A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST FOR EAST CENTRALFLORIDA

All this on 9 January. I’ve lived here since 1984, and I’ve never seen or experienced anything like this, until today. This is now the new normal, and it’s not good at all.

Links

First results are in: 2023 temperatures were stunningly warm — https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/first-results-are-in-2023-temperatures-were-stunningly-warm/

the unnecessary death of trees

whbeebe
Death of a living oak, it’s limbs shorn of the leafy crown it once held high

Live in a neighborhood long enough and you’ll see trends that come and go. A trend I always hate to see is the cutting down of trees around the neighborhood. I have no idea what triggers this trend, except when I start getting junk mail in my mailbox or business cards stuck in the front door of my house advertising tree services, which is nothing more than an excuse to convince the homeowner they have a diseased tree that needs to come down pronto.

I’ve seen four trees come down in as many months, and all of them on the route I take with my two dogs when we go out on our daily walks. This is the forth one I captured this morning.

My wife and I caught a tree service busily cutting it down yesterday when I was driving back from my wife’s doctor’s appointment. It always saddens me to see this happening because of how dire global warming has become; all these trees provided shade, and where they’ve all be cut down is now an open to the sun area. The rest of the streets we walk down have dappled shade because of the trees by the streets, but the holes where these trees have come down will allow the micro climates where they used to stand grow even hotter in the summers to come. This past summer was hot enough. I can only imagine what the future summers will be like, especially without the shade provided by mature oak trees.