[BartSimpson]

Sounds like a great idea for network television!

[raydan]

Lemmings don't have little maps anymore, they have GPS.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

Anyway, Toronto should relax. Want some pointers from the Wet Coast?

You should see what happens here in a snow storm. Speaking as a northerner it's kind of entertaining watching them try to drive.

I agree.

I often laugh at my family in Boston where they all but declare martial law if there's more than a foot of snow.

Oh Lord, it's even worse in Toronto. For the last several years now, 5cm of snow has been regarded as a "major snowstorm". Christ, 5cm even if it's just in a half hour, isn't a snowstorm let alone a major one.
Toronto is getting flooded more frequently because it's being built up artificially fast to house all the newcomers. More asphalt and concrete means fewer places for water to absorb directly into the ground.
Meanwhile, Oshawa sucks so bad even the shitty weather avoids this place like the plague.

[Martin15]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Relax, it's just more "nice weather" as the deniers like to call it.

No doubt it's all Doug Ford's fault

Let's impeach that motherfucker right now !

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Relax, it's just more "nice weather" as the deniers like to call it.

It is more nice weather with up to 60mm of rain reported in places but not as much as Toronto had in October 1954 (254mm) and it's not as much as 2013 (100mm).

In other words...

[It could be worse]

That should read - "It will be".

More of those inconvenient predictions from 30 years ago, coming to fruition.

$1:

How will climate extremes and extreme events change?

Changes in the variability of weather and the frequency of extremes will generally have more impact than changes in the mean climate at a particular location With the possible exception of an increase in the number of intense showers there is no clear evidence that weather variability will change in the future. In the case of temperatures, assuming no change in variability, but with a modest increase in the mean, the number of days with temperatures above a given value at the high end of the distribution will increase substantially On the same assumptions, there will be a decrease in days with temperatures at the low end of the distribution. So the number of very hot days or frosty nights can be substantially changed without any change in the variability of the weather. The number of days with a minimum threshold amount of soil moisture (for viability of a certain crop, for example) would be even more sensitive to changes in average precipitation and evaporation. If the large-scale weather regimes, for instance depression tracks or anticyclones, shift their position this would effect the variability and extremes of weather at a particular location, and could have a major effect. However, we do not know if, or in what way, this will happen.

IPCC 1990 report

Oh! Look!

June 2019 was the hottest on record across the globe, says NOAA

So, instead of 30 years of mocking James Hansen, we should have been doing something about it. So, "it could be worse" is really "get ready for the really bad stuff".

[stratos]

Hey make the best of it and have your Olympic swim team have practices in Toronto for a while.

[Martin15]

Fuck off spammer, go play under a bridge in Toronto.

[llama66]

Fuck these Islamabad spam bots have been bad of late. Mods, swing the ban hammer of justice.

[N_Fiddledog]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

That should read - "It will be".

More of those inconvenient predictions from 30 years ago, coming to fruition.

$1:

How will climate extremes and extreme events change?

Changes in the variability of weather and the frequency of extremes will generally have more impact than changes in the mean climate at a particular location With the possible exception of an increase in the number of intense showers there is no clear evidence that weather variability will change in the future. In the case of temperatures, assuming no change in variability, but with a modest increase in the mean, the number of days with temperatures above a given value at the high end of the distribution will increase substantially On the same assumptions, there will be a decrease in days with temperatures at the low end of the distribution. So the number of very hot days or frosty nights can be substantially changed without any change in the variability of the weather. The number of days with a minimum threshold amount of soil moisture (for viability of a certain crop, for example) would be even more sensitive to changes in average precipitation and evaporation. If the large-scale weather regimes, for instance depression tracks or anticyclones, shift their position this would effect the variability and extremes of weather at a particular location, and could have a major effect. However, we do not know if, or in what way, this will happen.

IPCC 1990 report

Oh! Look!

June 2019 was the hottest on record across the globe, says NOAA

So, instead of 30 years of mocking James Hansen, we should have been doing something about it. So, "it could be worse" is really "get ready for the really bad stuff".

Blah, blah, blah, Bud, but nice weather is still not bad weather. And it's still the case, as it always has been, that bad weather happens. CAGW has nothing to do with a rainstorm in Toronto.