22 Feb
2021
22 Feb
'21
12:18 p.m.
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 12:23:22PM +0000, Bret Clark wrote:
Texas doesn't generally experience this type of extreme cold.
That was then; this is now. As scientist Jeff Masters put it most of a decade ago: The atmosphere I grew up with no longer exists. My new motto with regards to the weather is, "expect the unprecedented." In the years since he's said that we've seen a number of unprecedented events: Sandy, Harvey, California wildfires, last year's midwest derecho, and so on. This event in Texas is just another one; there will be more; they'll get worse. We should probably get ready for that. ---rsk