Another example of the volatility in weather forecasting will unfold early next week. Yesterday, there was good agreement that the ocean storm that we had been monitoring was going to go out to sea. Now the models ore more divided with the Euro taking it farther to the east while the GFS brings it closer to the coast. I chose a track more on the Euro side of things but I brought in a light band of rain as the CMC suggests. The CMC track is closest to where I think it will track. The GFS brings in a band of heavy rain and puts the low in the Gulf of Maine. I do not thinks this is the right idea as the upper level trough thought to help turn the storm to the west likely will not be as strong as the GFS predicts. However, the GFS has been more or less consistent form run to run on this system so that scenario cannot be discounted.

IPCC climate report- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which is a group of top scientists and policymakers that convene every 5-6 years and produce a 3,000+ page report on climate change. They do this over a period of about a year and the first part of the 2013-2014 report came out early this morning. One key fact it pointed out is that there is a 95% chance humans are causing climate change. Dr. Jeff Masters has a great post summarizing this stage of the report. I encourage everyone, particularly those skeptical of climate change, to look at this article. It’s very informative and sheds light on some of the potential impacts that our energy consumption has on the planet and on civilization.

-Jack