02-26-2015, 02:56 PM
(02-26-2015, 11:15 AM)tvguy Wrote:(02-26-2015, 08:59 AM)Wonky3 Wrote:(02-24-2015, 11:51 PM)chuck white Wrote:Quote:Alaska broke warm weather records again this week,http://www.adn.com/article/20150223/febr...re-records
They have been keeping weather records in Alaska for 100 years or less.
It's been there for some hundreds of thousands of years. (More?)
So does anyone really know what the "normal" weather is like there?
It seems to me that they are saying these usually warm temps are not "normal" based on the rerecords they have been keeping. Isn't that meaningful?
I guess. For what it's worth. But it can't be worth a whole lot because it's such a short sample. So it's warm. If it wasn't it would be cold. Or wet. Or something. We take what we get and trying to forecast long-term weather is a fools errand.
So, that it's warmer than "usual" is kind of misleading because we really don't know what "usual" is. A 100 year sample in many hundreds of thousands of years ain't worth spit.