Paul_Dellegatto's Blog

FINALLY! It has been a long time, but finally we saw showers pop up around the region today. For many areas, it was the first rain seen in over a month. Lawns are brown and wildfires are popping up. As dry as it has been, it is perfectly normal to go weeks with no rain in April and May. We are in between seasons. Winter cold fronts can not make it this far south so there is little chance of a cold front producing rain while there is not enough low level moisture for the summer rainy season to start. It won't be long now. The summer rainy season is right around the corner.

I am not sure if you caught this weekend headline. "Study: Climate change not behind hurricanes" Tom Knutson, a respected scientist has actually changed his position. He has warned about the harmful effects of climate change and has even complained in the past about being censored by the Bush administration on past studies on the dangers of global warming. His new outlook based on new computer modeling casts serious doubts on the relationship between global climate change and hurricane development. He argues, and I do agree, is that we are in the midst of the active part of a  multidecadal cycle. We should have seen this activitity years ago. Global warming or not. It is an interesting read.

You can read the entire story at foxnews.com at the link below.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356549,00.html<
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