Excellent summary. Another term used for anomalies is departures.
For global average temperature you can do the math either by averaging the anomalies, or by computing the global average temperatures and computing the running difference directly. If the results differ you then check why. But the former method gives local results as well which are also useful.
I was referring to VT (where the link was referencing). In Southern NH, I'd say 8-10 with some mix.
I hope we get a ton of snow this year. It's good for the aquifers and it's fun to hike on.
Agree. What is won't be is decidedly less snow than normal ;-)
Well said. Demeaning personal attacks by the self appointed elite only lead to their attempts of ostracism.And I thought that your post of Feb 7th was bait that I had risen to. Silly me.
If I have 4 pots of water, one of which is 100 degrees C, and the other three are 0 degrees C, that will make the average a fairly comfortable 25 degrees C (or did I screw that up?) Sorry, I'm still not going to to plunge my and into a random pot, despite the average of the temperature of the water in the pots being a comfortable 25 degrees C. Thanks for making my point for me.
Complaints? That's next door. It's being hit on the head lessons in here.
Thanks for teeing that one up for me. The check is in the mail.
I must have missed class that day. As far as I know, the only thing that science requires of me is that I die someday. And I'm going to fight that tooth and nail as well.
I don't claim to be a scientist, or to be doing science here. I have no Phd. While my humble degree does have "Science" in the title, and the field of study also has "Science" in it, and it prepared me for a respectable but otherwise unremarkable career in the field, I can't say that I've done any science since I was working for that degree, and that was only to learn how, not to do anything that would contribute to anything.
I'm just stating my opinions, based on what I read, a reasonably well-tuned BS detector, some common sense, and some years of practical experience. Unlike some others, I won't demand that you embrace my opinions, you are free to think for yourself. I think there are some folks who post here who do actual science, and I like to think I respect what they do. But that doesn't mean that I can't have a different view.
These are casual conversations. Don't take any of it too seriously. I try to inject a little humor when the opportunity presents itself. I try not to take myself, or any of this too seriously. It is only when someone says I must think a certain way that I get my back up.
TomK
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Of course, hard to predict. Even harder to predict in November vs. February. Spot checking a few VT ski areas:
Oh hey, another content free attack by an anonymous troll on Views. Must be a day ending in y.
Your point is still quite murky.
When I was in school that was not taught either. I only recently read that exact formalization, recognizing it as one of those unwritten aspects of science.
"Common sense" is worse than useless for evaluating any interesting new science (by my personal definition of interesting). For example, how does your common sense reconcile either quantum mechanics or the particle-wave duality? Both of those are measurably true, even if they are not really new.
The style of your remarks do not lead me to believe this statement about humor. Remember that there is no way anyone on the planet can understand all of today's science, let alone all of science and all the rest of current human knowledge. To insist that you get to deny some of science and still claim science is "true" is egotistical and demeaning to all the scientists and their associates.
If you have better data about snowfall amounts, please share it. Note however that your claim of bias in these numbers would say that there was less snow than reported, which is in line with the original point of the OP and the title of this thread. I am not saying you are wrong about ski resorts padding data; your claim seems reasonable to me but substantiation or refutation would be good.
https://snowbrains.com/ski-area-snow-report-fact-fiction/ Ironically snowbrains was cited from another member just above. In the end I don’t think any one really knows the true answer.
Don't disagree. However, ski areas do the most reporting of snow totals so when you look for how much snow has fallen, only the ski areas come up. I could've eventually likely found something else, but I'm not doing research for a paper...just musing on the internet.
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