New York City Floods
October 1, 2023
By Paul Homewood
It’s not taken long for the fraudsters to get in on the act!
Rainfall at Central Park was 5.48”:
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Daily rainfall of 5 inches and more is not unusual in New York, and 5.48 inches is only the 9th wettest day on record. The wettest day was in 1882, and the chart of peak rainfall each year shows no evidence of it getting worse:
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Never mind the facts, let’s frighten everyone back to the stone age.
In NY, as I find increasingly in the UK, tptb responsible for maintaining city infrastructure – like drains etc – are happy to do nothing and then blame CC for the problems.
I have similar problems (on a much smaller scale) where I live. I have a small stream (a tributary of the Avon) at the end of my garden. It is 20-odd feet below my DPC level and generally stays within its banks, but twice now over the last 20 years it has risen all the way to the house (but not in it!). I noticed that the EA was doing very little maintenance on the waterway and then found they had a policy of allowing weeds, reeds and small collections of twigs etc to collect so as to ‘slow the river down'(!). I pointed out that it was a nonsense and made the river a disgusting sight. They claimed that if I didn’t like the weeds I shouldn’t worry as in the Winter they would die off. That’s OK, said I, right in the wettest season of the year!! Also, are they planning the slow the river flow from source to outflow??? Doh. I suggested they might as well just dam it – they said, don’t be silly.
See also Somerset levels floods. Drowning all the wildlife they claimed to be protecting.
They should be setupon by the RSPCA for all that cruelty inflicted upon the animals before they drowned. Giving them all false hopes of a new Life.
Just like the re-wilding in Scotland and the Wolves coming home to Dinner in Germany
Sorted out , I thought, by the Dutch?
I have a river along the side of my garden. It makes me a riparian owner. As far as I am aware, it is the responsibility of the riparian owners to ensure that the river flows freely and does not get blocked by fallen trees etc. I do my bit and my neighbouring farmers come along and make sure the river is not blocked. To hell with EA rules devised by bureaucrats who haven’t a clue about real life.
I have a seasonal stream alongside some woodland I own but have no rights to as the boundary is my bank and I pay the Upper Medway Drainage Board an annual management fee of just over £1.
Flooding? More of a sign of a dying infrastructure than the weather.
Spot on, ‘climate change’ is an easy excuse for incompetence. All that ‘blood and treasure’ spent on forever wars, but infrastructure neglected (not enough quick bucks in that?).
“Extremely Severe Flooding is the worst in many ways” – glenartney
I’m thinking “life-threatening” (with scare quotes) is worse.
Clearly, this is not the normal flooding. It’s extremely severe, life-threatening flooding.
‘More rain fell in a single day at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport – nearly 8 inches – than any other since 1948.’
So it’s NOT a record. In fact, it occurred in the Before SUVs Age.
‘The prolific totals are a symptom of climate change, scientists say’
Which scientists? I think they made that up.
Anywho, if we are going to do science:
1. What were the weather conditions that caused the heavy rain?
2. How exactly did this ‘climate change’ create those conditions?
The ‘climate change’ attribution is simply juvenile.
Any mention that high rise buildings can cause weather systems to stall and dump more rain as has been suggested happened in Houston? Would anyone get research funding for something that might go against the global warming scare stories?
Dunno about high rise buildings, but windfarms appear to.
https://www.americanexperiment.org/harvard-study-finds-wind-turbines-will-cause-more-warming-in-minnesota-than-emissions-reductions-would-avert/
Another study:
Impacts of 319 wind farms on surface temperature and vegetation in the United States
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac49ba
Thank you so much for what you do to inform us of the truth. Such lies from these people – do they realise they are peddling falsities or are they simply ignorant sheep? I suppose they would fall into both camps…
There’s a mildly hysterical warning in some UK papers that we could get a repeat of the “Beast From the East” this winter. It does mention “Sudden Stratospheric Warming” as a contributory factor so there is an attempt, at least, to introduce some science to the story. However, back in the real world, there is a degree of concern that a winter similar to the 2010 era “might” be on the cards: We are currently in what are referred to as the “Sporer’s Law Years” at the beginning of cycle 25, as were the 2010 winters and, looking at the graphs, the Thermosphere Climate Index is showing some similarity with the addition that the “Russell-Macpheron” autumn peak appears reluctant to appear, showing something of a dip instead.
Never a good idea to make predictions, the natural world doesn’t like to follow those things; however it is an interesting concept to watch !
Any thoughts on the unprecedented visibility of the aurora being much further south than than I can ever remember in seven decades and its relationship to solar cycle 25?
This has, indeed, been a fascinating pattern this cycle; 25 took off like a startled cat – far faster than predicted – then seems to have got bored with the whole thing. The occasional very strong bursts and aggressive sunspots that gave rise to the aurora you mention don’t seem to have any real background cause – at least not one I can identify ! Definitely an aspect to watch.
While on this subject, it is perhaps relevant to note that there was a rather strange phenomenon occurring once every Carrington rotation. On around the 24th- 25th of each month we had a short, sharp “spike” in activity – showing up best in the “Ap” index – which did not appear to be associated with any particular sunspot group or coronal activity, just some sort of solar “hotspot”. If you have a look at … http://eng.sepc.ac.cn/ApIndex.php … and use the query function, check out the data for 20230430 and before, you will see what I mean. Don’t seem to have anyone with a rational answer as to what & why.
Did this coincide with your mention of aurora activity ?