Reason #36 Why I Love To Blog -- March 12, 2017

Those great jobs numbers?

At an earlier post I noted that Bloomberg suggested the good numbers weren't so much due to President Trump as they were due to warm weather.

That's fine. One of many "positives" of global warming. Also, changing crops in North Dakota, and if things really get warm, maybe two growing seasons.

Now, an update, over at a message board, "they" are saying the same thing -- the great jobs report due to great February weather.

Increasing warmth, literally instead of figuratively, was reflected in the jobs report for last month, which was the balmiest February since 1954. That heavily skewed the seasonally adjusted numbers enough for David Rosenberg, Gluskin Sheff’s chief economist and strategist, to question them in a report titled “Fake Data?”

So far from the norm was the mercury last month—an average of 41.2 degrees Fahrenheit versus the normal 34.5 degrees—that he advised clients to “treat all the February data with a huge grain of salt (obviously not the salt used to melt snow off the driveway, since there isn’t any).”

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Winter Storm Stella

Mid-March, 2017.  Could be one for the record books. Airlines cancel thousands of flights (headline, March 13, 2017) in anticipation of storm.

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The Highway Patrol Page

North Dakota wants to keep speeding affordable.