Ed Mahmoud wrote:He has yet to mention the freeze suggested for HOU by multiple runs of the Euro and GFS. Although, I guess, that isn't climate.
Exactly. That's weather.
For a non-weather educated person, I'd guess climate is just a statistical mean for the weather during any particular time of the year gathered over a sufficiently long period of time. But I doubt that is the official definition.
I'd say that's a good enough working definition. I guess for the purposes of discussions of global warming one ought to add "averaged over the whole globe" to that.
Another thing worth mentioning is that a big part of the unreliability of weather models would go away if one were averaging over large areas - that is from the point of view of a person on the ground, it makes a huge difference if the freeze line is a hundred miles this way or that but from an average climate point of view that makes no difference at all.
x-y-no, are you a climatologist? With UM, by chance? (No idea why I'd guess an affiliation with the U...)
I'm a UM graduate, but in mathematics and computer science. My dad was a prominent researcher in physical oceanography and meteorology and for the lat 38 years of his career was at the Rosensteil School which is part of UM. It's through him that I've met and talked with many researchers in the field. I'd classify myself as a very well informed layman, certainly not a professional.