bunk yeah and that's what they have been peddling from my point of view but i want to prove it to my audience uh... because when they went out and said this is the hurricanes are going to get worse tell me whether that not that makes meteorological sense that is if we're getting generally warmer throughout the globe So you've got global warming, and would that generally produce better hurricane conditions, or do we have better hurricane conditions when we have both warm and cold, and it's the mixing of those two that creates the problems?

Well, mixing is one part of it, but you see, the Earth is incredibly complex, and these folks, like Gore, they think of things in simple terms.

They don't see the complexity associated with meteorology.

And I will point out, having spent 30-plus years as a television meteorologist and radio meteorologist, but I can't with accuracy predict seven days ahead because the nature of the atmosphere is chaotic.

It's the butterfly effect, the chaos effect, if you've ever heard of that.

But the point is, is that These things are incredibly complex, and so what's happened here in this situation, they're saying, oh, well, warmer conditions will make warmer water, and warmer water makes the hurricane stronger.

That's a simplistic argument.

So predicting when the hurricanes are going to happen or not happen, does that even seem very likely right now?

Is Washington State in a drought emergency?

Well, I'm looking right now at the U.S. Drought Monitor.

This is the website that's run by the government, and it basically defines the drought situation for every state.

And I'm comparing the last two weeks.

And, you know, here's what I'm seeing.

The entire western half of Washington State, with the exception of a little bit around Seattle, is in a no-drought situation, not one bit.

The area that's in the east, which is normally dry because it's desert over there by, you know, Yakima and so forth, it's basically in a moderate sort of a drought or slightly abnormally dry, according to these maps.

But over a 10-year period, you don't really see much of a giant emergency.

The one year you have an excess of water, California has that happen all the time, and then the next year you're slightly below normal, but over a 10-year period, you don't really see much of a giant emergency.

Yeah, you're absolutely right.

Weather varies from year to year.

And all of the West Coast is tied to what's going on in the Pacific Ocean.

You know, if we have an El Nino or a La Nina, where the pattern of the ocean changes, then we get different changes on land.

And these things vary from year to year.

But when you go back and look at the long-term drought situation, the drought monitor or other sources, you don't really see any sort of a trend.

That's when California has too much.