It is fraudulent for the BBC to suggest that the weather this year has been any more extreme than in years past.
Category: extreme weather
How Pressure Systems Control The Climate Part 1 – Decline In Extreme Weather
The most destructive storms are convective storms like hurricanes , tornadoes, thunderstorms and heavy rainfall. This video examines where the greatest convective energy is located and why scientists are finding…
California’s Wild Weather, Wet or Dry, is Nothing New
These mega-droughts and mega-floods all occurred well before ‘climate change’ was blamed for every weather event Previously published in The California Globe, December 13, 2021 12:44 pm For those wondering…
Dr Roger Pielke, Jr -What does IPCC AR6 say on Scenarios and Extreme Weather?
. It is very appealing, even seductive, for activists and the media to latch on to extreme events (as inaccurately summarized in the SPM), but at some point we have…
Is California Experiencing More “Weather Whiplash”?
But the jury, viewing the observations, have released a definitive ruling on whether precipitation whiplash is increasing during the past 120 years in California: no evidence for it, case dismissed.
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.
Advocacy disguised as ‘science’: ‘Intergenerational inequities in climate extremes’
There is a lot of press being generated this past week over a new paper titled “Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes” (paywalled). The Washington Post (WaPo) covered the new paper with…
New York City’s Plan to Combat Extreme Weather
The biggest impediment to implementation is the enormous funding needed and I believe it is obvious that taking the money presently being thrown away on greenhouse gas emission reduction projects…
Biden Declares War on Heat
Guest post by David Middleton Biden announces plan to combat extreme heat caused by climate changeBen Adler·Senior Climate EditorMon, September 20, 2021 […] Yahoo! News What about the extreme heat…
America’s Deadliest Natural Disaster…the Galveston Hurricane of 1900…and the heroic efforts of meteorologist-in-charge, Isaac Cline
By the next morning, skies had cleared and a 20 mph breeze greeted the Galveston survivors, there were 3600 homes destroyed leaving about a quarter of the population homeless, and…
Disaster Hits the New York Metropolitan Area. We Need to Do Better.
There is no reason why so many people had to die last night from an event we knew was coming and which we could watch unfold with weather radar and…
Extreme Temperatures In England
Discussion of “extreme temperatures” tends to revolve around highs rather than lows. In a warming world, high temperature extremes will inevitably become more common, just as lows get rarer. But…
Bastardi Comments on Hurricane Henri
But let me be clear as to why this is the storm I have always feared. A lot of it has to do with its end game in the forecasting.
Does Climate Change Cause Extreme Weather Now? Here’s a Scorcher of a Reality Check
Many of the climate attribution studies are resulting in headlines that are deceptive and result in people coming to incorrect conclusions about the relative roles of global warming and natural…
Hot Air Coming From IPCC At Tropical Storm Levels: Typhoons Trending Down Since 1951
From the NoTricksZone By P Gosselin on 13. August 2021 Typhoon trends contradict alarmist claims made by the IPCC’s latest report By Kirye and Pierre The latest IPCC AR6 report claims there is a…
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…
Claim: Global evidence links rise in extreme precipitation to human-driven climate change
Understanding how humans influence extreme precipitation is important for interpreting climate events today and for preparing cities and protective infrastructure for the changing world ahead.
Was Global Warming The Cause of the Great Northwest Heatwave? Science Says No.
The evidence for a predominantly natural origin of the high temperatures records of last week is compelling, with global warming marginally increasing the peak temperatures by perhaps a few degrees.…
New Podcast: Global Warming and the Northwest Heatwave, Plus the Weekend Forecast
Reposted from the Cliff Mass Weather Blog New Podcast: Global Warming and the Northwest Heatwave, Plus the Weekend Forecast The severe heatwave this week has been on everyone’s mind, for…
The Big Heat Post Mortem and the Next Few Days
Reposted from The Cliff Mass Weather Blog It’s over. Throughout the region, all-time temperature records have been broken, if not smashed. Just to name a few: SeaTac hit 108F,…
Climate Change, Extreme Weather, and Electric System Reliability
In assessing the risk from extreme weather events, I advise clients to develop an understanding of the entire historical record of events impacting the locale, as well as any relevant…
Even More Extreme: Extraordinary Record Highs Followed by Perhaps the Most Rapid Cooling in Northwest (US) History
The latest model runs, all at very high resolution, show even more profound extremes than previously predicted. And the end of the event will be extraordinary, with temperatures falling by…
Update 3 on Northwest US Heat Wave Predictions
As we get closer to the big heat event, powerful new forecasting tools are becoming available. Tools that provide a higher resolution and more nuanced view of the extreme heatwave…
