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General Category => Climate Change => Topic started by: rangerrebew on April 18, 2024, 11:28:20 am
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Coldest, Wettest & Stormiest – The Good Old Days Before Global Warming
APRIL 18, 2024
By Paul Homewood
By the 1970’s, the Earth had experienced three decades of declining temperatures, which Hubert Lamb described as “longest-continued downward trend since temperature records began”.
Many will be aware that the coldest winter on record in the US was that of 1978/79, more than 1F colder than any other year.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/
It is also common knowledge that the 1970’s suffered the most from tornadoes.
http://web.archive.org/web/20200415123954if_/https://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb/images/tornado/clim/EF3-EF5.png
http://web.archive.org/web/20200410134618/https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/climate-information/extreme-events/us-tornado-climatology/trends
What may less well known, though, is that the US also had its wettest year on record during the decade, in 1973.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/04/18/coldest-wettest-stormiest-the-good-old-days-before-global-warming-2/