Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Three Observations

1.  2023, from Feb on....at least in my district of the Rhine Valley....has been the most unusual weather pattern of the past 20-odd years.  In an average year, there's supposed to be in the range of 29 inches of rain a year (with July and August making up 40-percent of rainfall).  

Presently, I'd say we will hit the 29 inch level already by July of this year.  It's the 'greenish' I've seen things.  On temperatures?  Nothing has exceeded 23 C (for me locally) so far (74 F). 

Some chatter started yesterday, with the weather guys saying for the end of next week....at some locations in Germany, it'll finally hit 30 C (86 F).  

Ruining the climate change agenda chatter?  Well....there were roughly five years of summer drought, and hard rains on a couple of occasions....which helped the climate change chatter.  With these light rains and sprinklings?  It's dampening the ground enough that as any serious rain comes down....the ground absorbs the bulk, instead of run-off situations.

2.  Focus went out and wrote up a good long piece (worth reading)....talking about the rumors of E-cars catching on fire more often....than gas/diesel cars.

Swedish group did the investigation....out of 3,400-odd car fires there.  E-cars only made up 23 of the vehicle fires.  The rest were all gas/diesel situations.

So it is mostly all BS....when people say larger number of E-cars burn.  

3.  Turks are going back to vote in the national election....starting this Saturday.  Lot of hype in Germany going on about this Erdogan business.  Probably five minutes minimum nightly now on German TV....discussing the whole thing.


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