Category Archives: weather

Tropical Storm Beryl forms

Posted on May 25, 2012 by

BULLETIN SUBTROPICAL STORM BERYL ADVISORY NUMBER  1 NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL      AL022012 1100 PM EDT FRI MAY 25 2012 …SUBTROPICAL STORM FORMS IN THE SOUTHEWESTERN ATLANTIC… …TROPICAL STORM WARNING ISSUED FOR A PORTION OF THE SOUTHEASTERN … Continue reading →

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NOAA predicts a near-normal 2012 Atlantic hurricane season

Posted on May 24, 2012 by

Contact: Chris Vaccaro FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 301-713-0622 May 24, 2012 NOAA predicts a near-normal 2012 Atlantic hurricane season Anniversary of Hurricane Andrew underscores necessity to prepare every year Conditions in the atmosphere and the ocean favor a near-normal hurricane season … Continue reading →

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Pollution enhanced thunderstorms warm the planet?

Posted on May 18, 2012 by

From the DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a new paper in GRL saying something that doesn’t make much sense to me. As shown in the diagram above, thunderstorms transport heat from the lower troposphere upwards. The heat source at the base … Continue reading →

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Hurricane drought days at an all time high – Katrina Karma ?

Posted on May 16, 2012 by

Ever since Al Gore used hurricane Katrina as a false example of AGW driven severe weather, there has been a drought of major landfalling U.S. Hurricanes, which can only be a good thing. This year I hope Mr. Gore makes … Continue reading →

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Flim Flam Flannery’s Fecklessness Foiled

Posted on May 14, 2012 by

UPDATE: Veteran Australian cartoonist  Pickering weighs in, see below. (h/t to Dale Stiller) There’s yet another scare coming from Australia’s Climate Commissioner Tim Flannery hot of the heels of his failed drought predictions. And who could forget Flannery’s “quote of … Continue reading →

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The Minnesota “drought flood”

Posted on May 8, 2012 by

Guest post by Scott Gates Much as with the UK – where their “drought” is demonstrated by severe flooding … in Minnesota it is much the same. The government forecasters (NOAA)  claims we’re in a long term moderate to severe … Continue reading →

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More on the wettest April in 100 years in the UK

Posted on May 5, 2012 by

Readers may recall how the Met Office botched yet another forecast, calling for drought but instead getting a month of deluge. Here’s the numbers. By Paul Homewood The UK Met Office have just released their weather data for April, which … Continue reading →

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Lightning induced Schumann Resonance may help divine exoplanets

Posted on May 5, 2012 by

From the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Science nugget: Lightning signature could help reveal the solar system’s origins Every second, lightning flashes some 50 times on Earth. Together these discharges coalesce and get stronger, creating electromagnetic waves circling around Earth, to … Continue reading →

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Huff, puff, blow your house down – there’s an app for that

Posted on April 26, 2012 by

When I first saw this email with press release, I thought to myself – oh boy here’s another disaster thing from weepy Bill McKibben. But as it turns out, this is a useful educational app to assist people in learning … Continue reading →

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Klotzbach and Gray 2012 forecast – cooler Atlantic – fewer hurricanes

Posted on April 23, 2012 by

EXTENDED RANGE FORECAST OF ATLANTIC SEASONAL HURRICANE ACTIVITY AND LANDFALL STRIKE PROBABILITY FOR 2012 We anticipate that the 2012 Atlantic basin hurricane season will have reduced activity compared with the 1981-2010 climatology. The tropical Atlantic has anomalously cooled over the … Continue reading →

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USA’s record warm March 2012 not caused by “global warming”

Posted on April 16, 2012 by

The usual suspects in the blogs and media have been bloviating about the record warmth of March and spinning it to redline for maximum fear factor, with the “loaded climate dice” theme. For example we have Andrew Freedman of Climate … Continue reading →

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NOAA issues unusual media advisory release today

Posted on April 14, 2012 by

On a Saturday even. This is why, it is even worse than the one yesterday: Here’s the Press Release: 

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Tornado outbreak expected through tomorrow from Texas to Nebraska

Posted on April 13, 2012 by

I’ve been watching this with concern, and NOAA just had a press briefing on the issue today. It seems we are headed for the “perfect storm”. The convective outlook from SPC yesterday showed strong potential for Friday/Saturday. Today’s SPC forecast … Continue reading →

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1°C – the silent killer

Posted on April 10, 2012 by

From the Harvard School of Public Health , news that an extra 1°C temperature swing in summer will kill the elderly. Summer temperature variability may increase mortality risk for elderly with chronic disease Large day-to-day variations in temperature could result … Continue reading →

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Anchorage breaks seasonal snow record last set in 1955

Posted on April 7, 2012 by

Alaska’s largest city breaks seasonal snow record By RACHEL D’ORO | Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A spring snowfall has broken the nearly 60-year-old seasonal snow record of Alaska’s largest city. Inundated with nearly double the snow they’re used … Continue reading →

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Spencer’s posited 1-2% cloud cover variation found

Posted on April 4, 2012 by

In a nutshell, with a −1.6%per decade change in cloud cover during 1954–2005, it becomes a climate forcing. While China is not the world, it bears consideration. The Hockey Schtick reports: New paper finds significant, natural decrease in cloudiness over … Continue reading →

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NWS Dallas on yesterday’s tornado outbreak – just another statistic, no mention of “global warming”

Posted on April 4, 2012 by

Paul Homewood advises of this report just up on the National Weather Service Dallas website: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/wcm/2012/20120403-summary.pdf I’ve extracted and posted it below: Summary: A full assessment of the events of April 3, 2012 is not complete. However, we can review … Continue reading →

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Well, that didn’t take long to run the “climate is severe weather” scare story

Posted on April 3, 2012 by

The tornadic outbreak in Dallas is barely over and already there’s a rush to scare the public over non-existent links between tornadoes and climate. The Daily Caller reports: On the Tuesday broadcast of “CNN Newsroom,” CNN meteorologist Alexandra Steele declared … Continue reading →

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Paper: Russian Heat Wave of 2010 Linked to Solar Activity?

Posted on March 31, 2012 by

Just a quick note to bring this to attention of readers. I have not been able to locate a copy of this paper other than the paywalled one at Springerlink, so I can’t comment much about it, but it looks … Continue reading →

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2011 US Tornado Year Analyzed – no trend indication, still below 1974 for strong to violent tornadoes

Posted on March 31, 2012 by

Guest Post by Paul Homewood NOAA have just about finalised their numbers for the 2011 tornado season, although December figures still await confirmation. It usually takes about three months to confirm the provisional reports as each tornado report has to … Continue reading →

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Another paper shows that the Russian heatwave of 2010 was due to natural variability

Posted on March 29, 2012 by

Despite the repeated efforts of paid propagandists like Joe Romm (Center for American Progress) to try to make this event about global warming, by parroting faulty science from James Hansen, it simply isn’t true.  Hansen’s paper isn’t even peer reviewed, … Continue reading →

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Another blow to warmist hysteria over weather is not climate unless we say it is: “2011 damage is qualitatively indistinguishable from 1974″

Posted on March 28, 2012 by

Until the April 26/27th 2011 tornado outbreak, The April 3rd 1974 was the biggest outbreak of tornadoes in US history. Last year, the usual suspects railed about how the outbreak was a clear consequence of global warming> climate change> climate … Continue reading →

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Thank you Senator Kerry, for saying what we already know

Posted on March 27, 2012 by

This just in from The Daily Climate, Kerry tells us we are winning, but the blames the usual suspects rather than the message itself. I love the part about where we “made up our own science“, which is sort of … Continue reading →

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Will Happer’s WSJ rebuttal to NOAA’s Lubchenco and Karl

Posted on March 27, 2012 by

Readers may recall seeing this article in Physics Today titled Predicting and managing extreme weather events by Jane Lubchenco and Thomas R. Karl I had to laugh when I saw the “managing” part of extreme weather events. I’d love to … Continue reading →

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Weather is climate, or loaded dice, or something

Posted on March 25, 2012 by

From the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)  more instituitional worrying turned press release leading up to the upcoming WMO report. I wonder where they get the increase in hurricane intensity from? Apparently they’ve never seen Dr. Ryan Maue’s … Continue reading →

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