This happened during a fucking El Nino and those are the death of snow usually. El Ninos bring death ridges and/or split flow hell which is usually an 🤮🤮🤮 pattern spelling the end of winter before it even starts. Some El Nino's like 2002 will have a mini cold spell at the beginning to fool you like October 2002 or 2019-2020.
My lowest low for Oregon is still October's 2019's low of 21F I've yet to exceed lower then that. I wonder if I ever will?
Here's a special article about the 69 snowstorm: http://special.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/5675242-35/story.csp
The Big Snow It came without warning and left the city under a record-setting blanket of white
The answer is we don't understand nearly as much about the weather or our world than self-indulgent scientists want everyone to believe.
I agree. 1969 was a weak El Nino that year but something went completely off the rails not delivering the usual moderate droughts.
I don't know that much about Oregon weather, i do live on another coast and can see daily how much water affects temperature, though.
Also, I am no meteorologist or by any means a weather expert. My limited knowledge of weather concepts come from sailing and from studying fluid dynamics from a civil engineering perspective.
Consider the ways that weather or tidal flow or even water flowing in a pipe or ditch work... at the highest level all it is based on several key generalizations estimating behavior even in a pipe. Now, expand this to something simple like storm water runoff and the generalized approximations grow massively (but still serve the purpose for our ends), now expand this to attempting to model a bay or tidal basin (which is the actual lifetime project of a mentor of mine for both storm management and fisheries development), the assumptions and approximations one must make are huge and can pretty much only show what "usually happens" in a particular situation.
Ok, when that is expanded to the entire world's weather, my point is the presumptions and generalizations are massively large. And "freak" events happen. At best people can make educated guesses as to the cause and maybe be able to predict some (which predictions are usually based on noting similarities to past freak events.)
Anyway, I hope you like cold weather as much as I do and will welcome the arctic blast that will hit us about Dec. 20 when the hot weather now is supposed to "flip".
100 years divided by 4 billion years isn't enough data to understand mother nature's true bull and bear markets and the transitions between. And by markets I mean weather patterns.
They had weather modification as far back as early 50s
If you want to get down to it, humans had weather modification since the discovery of fire. Light a forrest on fire and it will change the weather.
That’s like saying “no need for cars because people can walk”. Yule not wrong but it implies a difference in scale
I do not mean it like you think.
As soon as humans observed that, say, a volcanic eruption could change the weather due to the smoke it emits, and noticed that they could light huge fires and also make a fuck ton of smoke, they realized that weather modification is possible.
This was likely in the neolithic era. Since then, technology has increased effect and efficiency significantly.