UPDATE: NOAA has corrected the typos in the illustrations at the new reanalysis intercomparison website. # # # # # NOAA opened two new blogs recently…and a new reanalysis intercomparison…
Category: hurricanes
They actually spent money studying this: Hurricanes with female names more deadly than male-named storms
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the department of bad baby names, something sure to piss off somebody, somewhere. In the coming Atlantic hurricane season, watch out for…
To President Obama: Let's just assume for a moment we have a climate crisis
As we start hurricane season today, we note the unprecedented 3142 day drought of major hurricane landfalls, shattering a record that goes back to the year 1900. Guest essay by…
First Major Hurricane in the Eastern Pacific Ocean of 2014
The first tropical cyclone of the Eastern Pacific hurricane season grew into a major hurricane as Hurricane Amanda reached Category 4 status on the Saffir-Simpson scale over the Memorial Day…
NOAA predicts near-normal or below-normal 2014 Atlantic hurricane season
From NOAA: El Niño expected to develop and suppress the number and intensity of tropical cyclones In its 2014 Atlantic hurricane season outlook issued today, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is…
Dueling press releases over tropical storm latitude shift – one hyped, one not
A couple of days ago NYT’s Andrew Revkin took exception to the use of the word “collapse” in headlines surrounding the paper suggesting that Antarctic ice sheets were in “imminent…
Hurricane Development Region Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies as We Start the 2014 Season
IMPORTANT OPENING NOTE Even if the sea surface temperature anomalies were to remain depressed throughout the 2014 hurricane season (highly unlikely), the actual sea surface temperatures (absolute) from June to…
Claim: Offshore Wind Turbines for 'Taming Hurricanes'
From the University of Delaware a press release I just can’t stop laughing about. Of course, they have no real-world tests of this claim, only “their sophisticated climate-weather model”. No…
2013 Was Not A Good Year For Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Climate Warming Change Disruption Weirding Ocean Acidification Extreme Weather, etc.
Image Credit: European Space Agency – CryoSat By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” For anyone keeping track, 2013 has not been a good year for those who propagate the Catastrophic…
2013: slowest Atlantic hurricane season in 30 years
A couple of days ago, Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. updated his famous graph of hurricane drought, and despite some ribbing from me on what could happen in May 2014, has…
Was Typhoon Haiyan the Most Intense Storm in Modern History?
Guest essay by Patrick J. Michaels Global warming buffs have been fond of claiming that the roaring winds of Typhoon Haiyan were the highest ever measured in a landfalling tropical…
Reality is Absent from Michael Mann’s Activist Article on Typhoon Haiyan
UPDATE: I’ve corrected a few typos that carried over into two of the graphs and, at the end, I’ve added a model-data comparison of the sea surface temperature anomalies for…
Tropical Cyclone Heat Potential – It’s All in the Presentation
UPDATE: If you’d like to contribute to the Philippine Red Cross you can do so here. # # # The warm-looking image on the left in Figure 1 is of…
Bjørn Lomborg on Haiyan/Yolanda
Bjørn Lomborg writes on his Facebook page It is phenomenal. Climate campaigners like [John] Vidal in Guardian keeps arguing that the terrible typhoon Haiyan shows we need to do more…
Super Typhoon Haiyan, '…as intense as a tropical cyclone can get. '
Prepare yourselves for the second coming of Katrina, because you can bet that this storm will be hyped as an indicator of “global warming”. As of this writing, the storm…
Atlantic Hurricane Season Quietest in 45 Years
Image Credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) – National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) By WUWT Regular Just The Facts From the Insurance Journal: “The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season looks…
This is like asking 'could hurricane Hazel strike again' ?
From Tufts University , and the department of industrial strength grant funded worry, comes this “could” question coached in caveats: Could Sandy happen again? Maybe, says Tufts geologist Due to…
A link between the solar magnetic field and weather patterns on Earth may explain our lower than normal severe weather in 2013
From the “science is settled” department comes this new paper that points out a correlation between the Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF) and polar jet streams, which drive weather events on…
Weather Before and After the Hurricane of 1938
This week New England is being inundated with retrospectives on the Hurricane of 1938. We have everything from a “Special Limited Edition” Weather Map Prepared by Bob Copeland, a retired…
Countdown to a hurricane lateness record
While Joe Bastardi forecasts a huricane within 72 hours… http://twitter.com/BigJoeBastardi/status/376796183806476288 …the clock is ticking on a satellite era record for the latest ever Atlantic hurricane formation. Atlantic hurricane season –…
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