Power just now (1:40) came back on. Cat was very ready to come in, I could get back on line, and the heater is back on. But we’re headed back to daughter’s for dinner.

Keep warm, dear Neo readers!

It wasn’t just the long winters….it was also the ridiculous power outages with every storm. I was checking a bit earlier, and my former town, Lebanon, is still suffering with the majority of the town out of power now for over 24 hours. And with those temps many are struggling to keep the house at a reasonable temperature with just wood heating. Eversource is saying MAYBE this afternoon for restoration. And I’ve heard they want to double the electric rates!

The longest outage so far here in Florida was 3 hours due to a truck hitting a pole. Our average electric bill has been about $80. That’s with a electric heat pump for both AC and heat, and electric hot water.

My cats curl up together too– they just like to have the option of moving their togetherness from the heated cat bed (it’s a large one that easily contains both of them) to the human’s bedding to the human under the bedding. The outside temp went down to 7F earlier this morning; it’s now 12F at 10:40, may go as high as 20F by the afternoon.

I can easily understand why physicsguy moved from CT to Florida.

Ours have been spending time curled up together.

You’ve apparently missed all the proclamations that “climate change” will bring on more frequent severe cold events. The reason they switched from “global warming” to “climate change” over 10 years ago was to be able to blame any weather event on CO2.

The cats know it’s very cold outside for this area: they’ve been hungrier than usual (they have to maintain a normal body temp between 101F and 102.5F) and staying in their favorite warm spots– a heated cat bed and a heap of blankets on top of the human’s bed. They’ll upgrade to piling on top of me under the blankets when I go to bed later tonight.

In the Pacific, the PDO (or Pacific Decadal Oscillation) has oscillated into its colder or negative phase a couple years ago. These phases alternate. This means more and longer La Niña events —and fewer and weaker El Niño events for about 25 years.

Meanwhile, in about two years or so, in the Atlantic, a similar cycle for the AMO (or Atlantic Meriodonal Oscillation) will turn negative or colder.

We haven’t had these two together since the 1900-1920 period, IIRC.

IN addition, we already have the sun in a weak phase of its periodicity, meaning a weaker electromagnetic field to bat away water vapor nucleating Cosmic Ray particles. With more of these high energy bit entering the earth down through the atmosphere, we are very likely to have more clouds which reflect the suns radiative heat back into space.

Thus, solar scientists have bet on cooling.

The logic is strong. But will measurements of clouds coincide with lower temp measurements on earth?

We’ll see.

If we do, then the Catastrophic global warming hope will be dashed and crashed, because their theory could not predict this.

Ergo, watch and wait the next three to five years. It could get quite interesting. Excel for this like the UK and Europe who’ve heavily bet on global warming idiocy.

If it doesn’t, then maybe skeptics have missed something.