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CURTIS & LARRY OPENING SEGMENT 7-28-26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: This is a podcast from WOR Now Curtis Lee and
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  Speaker 1: Larry Minty. In the morning.
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  Speaker 2: On sevent ten, WOOR the Voice of New York.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we had downpours yesterday. It was like buckets coming down,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought, oh my god, everything is gonna flood.
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  Speaker 1: And then it was over. But that was just a
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  Speaker 1: prelude of what is to come. Let's get the latest
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  Speaker 1: now from Ray Stagic, wor Weather Channel meteorologist, who was
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  Speaker 1: kind enough to give us an extended forecast today. Yeah, yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: when that was coming down, I'm thinking to myself, Man,
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  Speaker 1: I hope this doesn't last a long time. And it didn't.
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  Speaker 1: But it sounds like that was just the opening act.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was. And I don't think we'll be a
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  Speaker 3: wind severe weather threat now because you got to kind
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  Speaker 3: of separate the two. Yesterday was more wind, localized heavy
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  Speaker 3: downpours and even a couple of severe weather reports trickle
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  Speaker 3: in Rockland County. One of the reports parts of Jersey
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  Speaker 3: Bergen County, a little bit of tree damage but nothing
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  Speaker 3: too widespread. Now we kind of shift the focus from
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  Speaker 3: a severe thunderstorm, which there may be a couple in
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  Speaker 3: the next couple of days, but that would mean wind, hail,
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  Speaker 3: isolated tornadoes two more of a flood threat. Thus the
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  Speaker 3: flood watches in place, so they're kind of two separate entities.
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  Speaker 3: You get flash flood warnings when you got heavy rain
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  Speaker 3: and flooding, and then you get severe thunderstorm warnings when
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  Speaker 3: you get wind, hail, and maybe even tornadoes when you
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  Speaker 3: go to tornado warnings. So I think our focus shifts
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  Speaker 3: more to a heavy rain threat with isolated wind, then
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be more widespread wind. I think that
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  Speaker 3: kind of makes sense, right, So.
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  Speaker 2: Basically, Ray, let me break it down. Break out the
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  Speaker 2: gondolas again, because if you're in a locally, you're in
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  Speaker 2: a low lying area and you're prone to get flooded,
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  Speaker 2: even when there's a little sprits in the air. Get
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  Speaker 2: those sandbags, Stop filling the those sandbags.
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  Speaker 3: Now that's what you say. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see some of the images of the water in
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  Speaker 3: the subways, et cetera, et cetera. I think it's not
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  Speaker 3: going to be widespread, but it'll be enough to be
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  Speaker 3: what do we want to call it these days? Dramatic probably,
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  Speaker 3: and life threatening probably too for some because if you
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  Speaker 3: get it in areas that aren't usually prone to flooding
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  Speaker 3: in an unexpected area, those would be the ones that
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  Speaker 3: be surprised. So I say, everybody with a flood watch,
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  Speaker 3: that means the potential for flooding in and around the
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  Speaker 3: watch area that covers an entire Try state. We all
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  Speaker 3: got that risk for some flesh flooding. Now there is
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  Speaker 3: a secondary threat, as I'd said, of some gusty winds
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  Speaker 3: and maybe small hail tertiar area. I don't think it's
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  Speaker 3: a tornado profile, but you always say thunderstorms. They all
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  Speaker 3: do rotate. The question is do they rotate enough to
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  Speaker 3: spin up a tornado? And I don't think that's likely.
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  Speaker 3: The chance is never zero percent. But I really think
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  Speaker 3: it's a rain and a water first, a lot of
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  Speaker 3: it coming later. Today's had the heaviest of it, and
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  Speaker 3: hopefully we can escape overnight flooding because most people do
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  Speaker 3: what they go to bed, and you get flooding at
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  Speaker 3: night and you're not ready for it. You really can't
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  Speaker 3: hide from it. You can hide from the wind, but
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  Speaker 3: you can't hide from the water. So the fact that.
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  Speaker 1: We got so much rain areas sorry ray. The fact
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  Speaker 1: that we got so much rain yesterday and a short
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  Speaker 1: amount of time, and maybe you can tell us how
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  Speaker 1: much it was yesterday. So the ground is saturated and
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  Speaker 1: we are probably more prone to a flood at that
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  Speaker 1: point if it rains a whole lot today.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, especially if it was in the areas where we
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  Speaker 3: saw the heaviest rain yesterday. So it's not you'll guaranteed
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  Speaker 3: that that'll fall where some of the heavier storms wear.
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  Speaker 3: It means about quarter of an inch in Central Park,
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  Speaker 3: but out across the parts of North Jersey, Hasburg Heights
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  Speaker 3: had almost an inch of rain, but if you go
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  Speaker 3: north of that in Bergenfield, two point two inches of rain,
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  Speaker 3: one and a half inches across the river from Yonkers
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  Speaker 3: at Grant Elementary School close to it. So where we
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  Speaker 3: saw those one to two inch totals, the ground saturated
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  Speaker 3: and now already starting to see the showers thunderstorms coming
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  Speaker 3: out of Eastern PA heading into Scranton and Allentown in
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  Speaker 3: through the Poconos. So over the next several hours that
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  Speaker 3: line should weaken a bit, but the chance is going
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  Speaker 3: to go up later this morning. I do think the
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  Speaker 3: bulk of the rain comes later today and into the
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  Speaker 3: nighttime hours tonight. Maybe one to three inches of rain,
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  Speaker 3: not for everybody, but for the areas that get hit
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  Speaker 3: multiple times, so the floodwatch would be in place. I
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  Speaker 3: had that chance of some heavier rainfall and then the
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  Speaker 3: low kind of sticks around a couple of days. I think,
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  Speaker 3: scattered stuff through tonight, tomorrow and even Thursday before the
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  Speaker 3: sun comes back. And we gave you that extended forecast
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  Speaker 3: because everybody's kind of saying, you know, when do we
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  Speaker 3: get out of this mess? And I think it's not
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  Speaker 3: going to be till Friday, till the sun returns.
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  Speaker 2: I noticed a lot of people doing home redpayers up
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  Speaker 2: on their roofs, trying to lay the tar and new
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  Speaker 2: tar paper and fill in where the leaks are coming in.
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  Speaker 2: That's a little dangerous when you're an amateur. It's hard
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  Speaker 2: enough for rufous to do it. But with this incessant
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  Speaker 2: heat and humidity and then the water, the rain that
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  Speaker 2: comes down in bucket falls, it really does take its
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  Speaker 2: toll on buildings and especially roofs. So I would just
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  Speaker 2: advise folks, if you're not a skilled roofer, don't even
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  Speaker 2: try it, because that's how people fall off their roof.
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  Speaker 2: That's how old When the Sacrileta goes out low roof, No,
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  Speaker 2: no going up on the roof.
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  Speaker 1: No for you, I'm finding out a roof ray.
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  Speaker 4: Yesterday during these storms, when we were talking about localized,
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  Speaker 4: I never saw something so localized in my life. Then
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  Speaker 4: yesterday my daughter comes home. She was about four minute drive,
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  Speaker 4: about a mile away from the house at a workout class.
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  Speaker 4: She comes in, she goes, oh, my gosh, that rain.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, what are you talking about? Because it was
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  Speaker 4: coming down in buckets. How's it? It didn't even we
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  Speaker 4: did not have a drop a mile away. Wow, I've
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  Speaker 4: never experienced anything like that. Is that what we're going
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  Speaker 4: to be looking at today? That localized or is this
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  Speaker 4: more white?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's going to be more widespread. I think
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  Speaker 3: everybody gets rain. The question is going to be between today, tonight,
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  Speaker 3: and tomorrow, where does the heaviest fall. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: and that's always a difficult question. The guy that says
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  Speaker 3: where the floodwatch is. There could be multiple rounds of
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  Speaker 3: rain and thunderstorms with a tropical downpours of blinding visibility,
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  Speaker 3: so gonna be tough to see on the roadways. You know,
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  Speaker 3: obviously headlights on high speed, wipers, low speed travel when
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  Speaker 3: you get into the rain, but certainly more widespread rain.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna go out on the limb and say
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  Speaker 3: widespread flooding, but there will be some. And when you
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  Speaker 3: get those warnings or advisories for flooding, that means take action.
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  Speaker 3: Flooding eminent or actually occurring.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, we had a really destructive tornado in Wisconsin yesterday
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  Speaker 1: and within the week we had three. They were they
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  Speaker 1: were one in zero, but there was three tornadoes in
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey. Is this an aberration? Are we seeing more
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  Speaker 1: tornadoes in different areas?
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  Speaker 3: That's the million dollar question? And I think the statistics
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  Speaker 3: would say yes, right, But you know, kind of lying
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  Speaker 3: underneath there is that is that because yeah, obviously there's
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  Speaker 3: more sightings because there's a greater population than there was
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  Speaker 3: X amount of years ago. There's more social media, so
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  Speaker 3: there's more people out there actually, you know, taking picture
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  Speaker 3: of the tornadoes. Are they coming in going in through
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  Speaker 3: rural areas where they're not getting reported? Are they coming
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  Speaker 3: into more metropolitan areas they I'll tell you this, the
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  Speaker 3: numbers certainly say that even in Cook County yesterday. If
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  Speaker 3: you don't know the state of Illinois, that's downtown Chicago.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they had a couple of reports of tornadoes
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  Speaker 3: and that was that same complex. They came out of
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  Speaker 3: Wisconsin where there was some fairly significant damage. So in
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  Speaker 3: case you didn't know, now the Weather Service go out
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  Speaker 3: assess the damage and they'll assign any up rating to
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  Speaker 3: that storm. But yeah, Larry, there's been at least statistically
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  Speaker 3: more tornadoes reported over the last several years. The question is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, is that a function of what's going on
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  Speaker 3: with the climate, or is just a function of you know,
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  Speaker 3: more people seeing.
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  Speaker 2: Them now ray no matter where the extreme weather is.
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  Speaker 2: Europe burning up and they expect one hundred degree weather
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  Speaker 2: to return, with all those funnel fires, Asia getting deluged
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  Speaker 2: with rain, they're claiming it's all the result of Eino,
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  Speaker 2: including os What does that mean though, to the average
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  Speaker 2: person they hear el Nino, it's sort of like, well,
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  Speaker 2: what does that mean?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's basically means there's certain things that happen when
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  Speaker 3: there is an El Nino climatologically on average for a season.
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  Speaker 3: So let's say for the summer season, it would mean
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  Speaker 3: in places like the northeast to w Engling, maybe a
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  Speaker 3: little wetter, maybe a little bit cooler and for the
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  Speaker 3: winter maybe average or above average precipitation and maybe even
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  Speaker 3: a average temperatures. The question is how far above average
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  Speaker 3: would that be? Is that half a degree is a degree?
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  Speaker 3: Because everybody I think says, well, if we're gonna have
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  Speaker 3: an El Nino winter in the northeast, they think, well,
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  Speaker 3: maybe there's not going to be any snow. That's certainly
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  Speaker 3: not the case. The question is going to be, you know,
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  Speaker 3: are we above average by a degree or five degrees
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  Speaker 3: and then we don't get a lot of snow or so.
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  Speaker 3: It's basically more about climatology and what typically happens when
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  Speaker 3: we have at Elino. It's basically a pattern shift across
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  Speaker 3: the globe due to cooling and or warming El Nino
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  Speaker 3: La Nina in the Pacific Ocean.
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  Speaker 1: Ray Stage jic w l Our Weather Channel meteorologist. Ray,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for spending time with us. Appreciate it all right.
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  Speaker 2: Let me make mention real quick. If you're a wine connoisseur,
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  Speaker 2: the farmers in Bordeaux did not listen to Macron who
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  Speaker 2: ordered them all remove yourselves because they have fire funnels.
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  Speaker 2: It was really heartening to see them out there with
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  Speaker 2: their hoses just trying to save their barns, their houses
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  Speaker 2: and farm animals. They resisted the order to evacuate and
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  Speaker 2: they're on the front line with the firefighters. Man, it
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  Speaker 2: is getting real close to Bordeaux, that's the sixth largest
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  Speaker 2: city in all of France. And of course it's creeping
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  Speaker 2: up on Madrid only thirty miles out and you know
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  Speaker 2: that's the capital of Space. So a lot of concern
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  Speaker 2: in Europe. The temperature is going to go over one
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  Speaker 2: hundred degrees. Again, what's happening in Europe right now?
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  Speaker 1: We need to spend some more time on because it
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  Speaker 1: is a disaster that's happening and could get worse. This
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