Hydrological Drought, as opposed to Meteorological Drought, is the deus ex machina of California drought mongers
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L A Times Falsely Hypes a “Wild” 2023/2024 Rainy Season while Concealing NOAA Climate Science Data Establishing this Season as Completely Normal
The Times claims of “supercharged” and “wild” rainfall between December 2023 through February 2024 in California are pathetic and a clear demonstration of the climate science incompetence represented by climate…
No, Los Angeles Times, Climate Change Is Not ‘Supercharging’ the Latest Winter Storm
There’s no evidence supporting the LAT claim that climate change enhancing El Niño in a way that would cause heavier precipitation during the present storm in California.
German Prof on German Floods: “Difference Between Facts and Political Narratives Is Breathtaking.”
In other words, claims that the heavy rainfall over the past weeks is a sign of climate change is an absolute nothing-burger.
Wired and The Conversation are Wrong, the 2023 Burning Man Rainstorm Wasn’t Caused By Climate Change
Climate change can’t be causing weather changes that data show aren’t occurring.
Very Powerful Storm To Impact The West Coast From Sunday Into Monday…Same System Can Result In A Mid-Week Severe Weather Outbreak And An East Coast Storm By Late Next Week
Much of the western US has been experiencing “extreme” or “exceptional” drought conditions in recent weeks, but that is likely to change in a big way in coming days.
September 1951 UK–Wet & Windy
The daily record rainfall in Oxford has only been exceeded once since, in 1968.
July 2021 A Month Of Extremes? The Archives Say Otherwise
True to form, the media have gone totally mental over a few flash floods in London last month, where the highest daily rainfall total was less than 2 inches. As…
A New Kind Of Rain
By Paul Homewood Verity Jones, over at Digging in the Clay, reminds me of an interview with Lord Smith, the politician formerly known as Chris Smith, in the Sunday Telegraph.…
UK Rainfall 2012-The Report The Met Office Should Have Produced
Guest post by Paul Homewood According to the Met Office, UK has just had the second wettest year on record, just behind 2000. These claims, however, are based on records…
The cure for anything is salt water—sweat, tears, or the sea.
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s an interesting study in Science magazine, entitled “Ocean Salinities Reveal Strong Global Water Cycle Intensification During 1950 to 2000” by Durack et al. (paywalled…
The Minnesota "drought flood"
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…
More on the wettest April in 100 years in the UK
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…
Quite possibly the funniest weather/climate photo, evah
Readers may recall my story from last night about the Met office and their spectacular failure of a forecast for April. See Met Office April Forecast: “…drought impacts in the…
Prey and predator model of clouds
From the Weizmann Institute of Science – Eat, Prey, Rain Photo: Tamar Deutsch What do a herd of gazelles and a fluffy mass of clouds have in common? A mathematical…
A Cool and Wet October for California
The month of October has been significantly cooler than normal. This was seen with average daily maximum and average daily mean temperatures that were below normal for all 9 key cities…