Category Archives: weather

Fogageddon

Posted on February 11, 2012 by

I suppose if  I truly want to take the weekend off, I’ll have to ditch my smartphone. These photos from the Facebook page of the Panhandle Helicopter Service in Panama City Beach, Florida, have been making the rounds today, erroneously … Continue reading →

Posted in clouds, weather | Tagged , , , | 83 Comments

2010 Snowmageddon explained, sans global warming/climate change

Posted on February 10, 2012 by

The 2010 Snowmageddon event was quickly seized upon in an NYT op-ed by global warming zealot Al Gore as yet more proof of…climate…warming…mumble.. something. Yet in this NASA article highlighting a new peer reviewed paper, global warming/climate change isn’t even … Continue reading →

Posted in snowfall, weather | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 78 Comments

Tragic winter weather in Europe doesn’t fit the Mannian narrative

Posted on February 5, 2012 by

From the Weather is not climate unless we say it is department: Over at Climate Progress, paid propagandist Joe Romm wails about “journalistic malpractice” from Michael Mann’s words in a tweet: The wailing (Jan 31st and again Feb 4th) was … Continue reading →

Posted in Michael E. Mann, records, snowfall, weather | Tagged , , , , , , | 147 Comments

Global Economic Damages from Tropical Cyclones – Sins of Omission

Posted on February 3, 2012 by

Guest post by Indur M. Goklany A few days ago I saw a report about a paper in Nature Climate Change on future economic damages from tropical cyclones (or hurricanes, as we Americans call them) by Robert Mendelsohn, Kerry Emanuel … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes | Tagged , , , , , , , | 20 Comments

What We Don’t Know about Snow

Posted on February 1, 2012 by

From Ellen Gray NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Predicting the future is always a tricky business — just watch a TV weather report. Weather forecasts have come a long way, but almost every season there’s a snowstorm that seems to … Continue reading →

Posted in snow, snowfall, weather | Tagged , , , , , , , | 35 Comments

Bitter cold records broken in Alaska – all time coldest record nearly broken, but Murphy’s Law intervenes

Posted on January 30, 2012 by

Jim River, AK closed in on the all time record coldest temperature of -80°F set in 1971, which is not only the Alaska all-time record, but the record for the entire United States. Unfortunately, it seems the battery died in … Continue reading →

Posted in records, weather, weather_stations | Tagged , , , , , | 380 Comments

Two Feet of Snow in Seattle

Posted on January 27, 2012 by

More proof of global warming climate change global climate disruption has been seen with this latest snowstorm in Seattle. Readers may recall this story from 2008 from where the mayor even refused to bring out salting/snowplowing for fear of environmental … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, snowfall | Tagged , , , , | 50 Comments

Frequency of strong Florida hurricanes decreased in last 600 years

Posted on January 26, 2012 by

The next time some alarmist caterwauls about hurricanes becoming worse and more frequent due to global warming, show them this study. Noting that “the brief observational record is inadequate for characterizing natural variability in hurricane activity occurring on longer than … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes, paleoclimatology, weather | 27 Comments

The Ridiculousness Continues – Climate Complexity Compiled

Posted on January 21, 2012 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” With the help of an array of WUWT reader comments on this thread and several others documented within, I’ve been compiling a summary of all potential climatic variables in order to build a conceptual … Continue reading →

Posted in aerosols, AMO, Antarctic, Arctic, climate data, clouds, cosmic rays, dust storms, earth, Earthquakes, energy, ENSO, feedbacks, geothermal energy, Gravity, hurricanes, Methane, oceans, PDO, petroleum, Science, sea ice, snow, solar, solar power, thorium power, tornadoes, wind power | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 238 Comments

Global temps in a Crash as AGW proponents Crash the Economy

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

By Joe Bastardi, Weatherbell Analytics When the PDO turned cold, most of the meteorological and climate community understood that the pattern was turning very similar the last time of the PDO reversal, the 1950s, and it was a matter of … Continue reading →

Posted in climate data, PDO, weather | Tagged , , , , , , | 313 Comments

The warm-cold oscillation

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

From the Institute of Physics Cold winters caused by warmer summers, research suggests Scientists have offered up a convincing explanation for the harsh winters recently experienced in the Northern Hemisphere; increasing temperatures and melting ice in the Arctic regions creating … Continue reading →

Posted in snowfall, weather | Tagged , , , , , , , | 95 Comments

Nacreous cloud show at the Arctic Circle

Posted on January 15, 2012 by

From spaceweather.com An apparition of polar stratospheric clouds is underway around the Arctic Circle. “It is almost as good as the aurora borealis,” says Göran Strand, who took this picture last night from Östersund, Sweden: Eric Schandall of Oslo, Norway, … Continue reading →

Posted in clouds, optical phenonmena | Tagged , , , , , , , | 71 Comments

Children just aren’t going to know what hail is…

Posted on January 9, 2012 by

Source of title inspiration here From NOAA Headquarters. Colorado mountain hail may disappear in a warmer future NOAA-led study shows less hail, more rain in region’s future, with possible increase in flood risk Summertime hail could all but disappear from … Continue reading →

Posted in hail, modeling, weather | Tagged , , , , , , , | 102 Comments

Even with a busy tornado year, still no upward trend in tornadoes

Posted on January 5, 2012 by

US Tornado Trends–Updated to 2011 Guest post by Paul Homewood 2011 has obviously been a disastrous year for tornadoes in the USA, but does this reflect an increasing trend in either the number or severity of tornadoes? The NOAA graph below … Continue reading →

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“We need more hurricanes to save the coral reefs”

Posted on December 30, 2011 by

Above: SST heat loss from Hurricane Irene The title is sarcasm, but it does present an interesting quandary for alarmists. What’s more acceptable – hurricanes and the loss of life and property they bring, or loss of coral reef systems? … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes, Sea Surface Temperature | Tagged , , , , , , , | 39 Comments

NRDC’s ridiculous weather IS climate “sound the general alarm” map

Posted on December 27, 2011 by

People send me stuff. Today it is this web page from the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), another official sounding NGO modeled in the WWF funding style of wail n’ beg. The first thought that went through my head when … Continue reading →

Posted in weather, records, Alarmism | Tagged , , , , , , , | 84 Comments

“Very wet rain events” from tropical cyclones linked to earthquakes

Posted on December 8, 2011 by

From the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science , an interesting groundbreaking paper, ahem…but, wait for it, we’ll soon hear “Climate disruption causes more hurricanes and those cause more earthquakes” from the Rommists and McKibbenites. Research … Continue reading →

Posted in Earthquakes, hurricanes | Tagged , , , , , , , | 101 Comments

UCAR on Blocking Highs, heat waves, and modeling limits

Posted on December 8, 2011 by

Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. writes: Candid Admission By UCAR – “Blocking The Way – Predicting The Atmospheric Detours That Lead To Weather Troubles” There was an interesting article in the Fall issue of the UCAR Magazine titled by Bob Henson titled Blocking The … Continue reading →

Posted in heat wave, modeling | Tagged , , , , , , , | 50 Comments

Common link in extreme weather events found – and no, it isn’t AGW

Posted on December 5, 2011 by

From the University of Wisconsin-Madison  something you’ll never see posted on Climate Progress or mentioned by weepy Bill McKibben because it mellows their harshness. Global winds could explain record rains, tornadoes MADISON –Two talks at a scientific conference this week … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate News, weather | 51 Comments

New hurricane record – 2232 days and counting since major Hurricane made landfall on the USA – last record was year 1900

Posted on December 5, 2011 by

While the alarmists squall over trying to control what they perceive as “extreme weather” driven by global warming at Durban COP17, urging immediate action in the form of coughing up 100 billion a year to poor countries for “reparations”, a … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, Alarmism, hurricanes | 42 Comments

Hurricanes and Global Warming – Opinion by Chris Landsea

Posted on December 2, 2011 by

While I was looking into Chris Landsea’s recent activities, I came across a new essay that is a pleasant change of pace from the Climategate Emails. While it is definitely an opinion piece, and a wonderful example of how to … Continue reading →

Posted in Al Gore, AMO, Carbon dioxide, hurricanes, Methane, Michael E. Mann, Sea Surface Temperature | Tagged , | 65 Comments

NCAR’s Dr. Kevin Treberth’s ugly intolerance of dissenting views from other scientists

Posted on December 2, 2011 by

And to think I almost wasted my time going to visit Dr. Trenberth at NCAR this fall. This is mind blowing intolerance in professional discourse. Here’s the email, bold mine. email 3946 date: Thu Dec 9 08:28:11 2004 from: Phil … Continue reading →

Posted in Climategate, hurricanes | Tagged , , , | 115 Comments

Hurricane Kenneth forms southwest of Baja

Posted on November 21, 2011 by

Late season Hurricane Kenneth forms in the eastern Pacific Click image above to animate the most current loop The hurricane season in the eastern Pacific isn’t over and Hurricane Kenneth serves as a reminder that the season ends November 30. … Continue reading →

Posted in hurricanes | Tagged , , , , , , , | 49 Comments

Dr. Jeff Masters gets caught up in the full on media stupidity

Posted on November 9, 2011 by

The major winter storm in Alaska mentioned overnight on WUWT, while weaker than the previous record storm 1974, gets pegged as being “aided and abetted by global warming”: While the storm is weaker than the ’74 event, it appears to … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Arctic, weather | Tagged , , | 81 Comments

Extremely Dangerous Storm Slicing Towards Alaska

Posted on November 9, 2011 by

From Live Science An extremely dangerous storm is slicing toward northwestern Alaska and is expected to bring blizzard conditions and hurricane-strength winds to the state’s west coast. The storm, which formed from a mix of air masses over an area … Continue reading →

Posted in weather | Tagged , , , , , , , | 98 Comments