[MCN] East winds & falling temperatures for Missoula: Why????

[Lance Olsen]

Starting Saturday afternoon/evening, Missoula will get east [Hellgate] winds and falling temperatures. The trend of east winds and falling temperatures is forecast to persist for the next several days.

Why?

Specifically, why should we expect east winds to bring a chill to Missoula?

Your answer is found in the forecast for east of the Continental Divide:
https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/USMT0146 <https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/USMT0146>

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"… the race between climate dynamics and  climate policy will be a close one …."

Hans Joachim Schellenhuber. 
“Global warming: Stop worrying and start panicking?” 
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2008

Opening paragraph

"In their excellent Perspectives article in this issue (1 <https://www.pnas.org/content/105/38/14239#ref-1>), Ramanathan and Feng (R&F) sound a harsh wake-up call for those concerned about anthropogenic climate change: the authors maintain that the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the past have already loaded the Earth System sufficiently to bring about disastrous global warming. In other words, the ultimate goal of climate protection policy, as stipulated by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (2 <https://www.pnas.org/content/105/38/14239#ref-2>), appears to be a delusion."

[ open access ] https://www.pnas.org/content/105/38/14239 <https://www.pnas.org/content/105/38/14239>

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“The climate scientist James Hansen has called two-degree warming “a prescription for long-term disaster.”

Robert Watson, a former director of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has argued that three-degree warming is the realistic minimum. 

The prospect of a five-degree warming has prompted some of the world’s leading climate scientists to warn of the end of human civilization.”

<<https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/climate-change-losing-earth.html <https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/climate-change-losing-earth.html>>>

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