How not to measure temperature, part 89 – “surface temperature”

4 07 2009

Hillsboro_OH_USHCN

The Hillsboro, Ohio USHCN climate station of record, measuring rainfall and the “surface” temperature. Note the MMTS temperature sensor laying flat on the ground. Read the rest of this entry »


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Categories : climate data, measurement, weather_stations

The Sun puts on some fireworks for the 4th of July

4 07 2009

Leif Svalgaard has been saying for sometime now that Solar Cycle 24 seems to be getting underway. Seeing sunspot group 1024 today, I’m tending to agree.

SOHO_MDI_070409

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The magnetic polarity (seen on the SOHO magnetogram)  of the spot group combined with the middle latitude indicates it is a cycle 24 spot.

From Spaceweather.com

The most active sunspot of the year so far is emerging in the sun’s southern hemisphere: movie. Sunspot 1024 has at least a dozen individual dark cores and it is crackling with B-class solar flares. This morning, amateur astronomer David Tyler caught one of the flares in action from his backyard solar observatory in England: Read the rest of this entry »


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Categories : solar, space