The 25th Anniversary of the Crash of Delta 191 By Mike Smith of Meteorological Musings. ( a video and reconstruction follows – Anthony) At 9:30am this morning, a long-overdue memorial…
Category: Weather
Mallory and Irvine on Everest: Did extreme weather cause their disappearance?
Via Eurekalert and the “climate doesn’t kill people, weather does” department Research considers role of weather in historic Everest tragedy Their legend has inspired generations of mountaineers since their ill-fated…
Heidi Cullen doomcasts in new stemwinding sci-fi thriller
Dr. Heidi Cullen of Weather Channel fame but now CEO of Climate Central outfit is publishing a new book on August 3, so far #138,256 on Amazon’s bestsellers but sure…
Frozen Tropics as La Niña takes hold
By Steve Goddard As La Niña takes hold in South America, we are seeing something I’m not sure I have ever seen before. Temperatures in some parts of the Andes…
Anatomy of a Microburst
From Mike Smith @ Meteorological Musings A central Oklahoma microburst descends from the parent cloud to the ground. Photo from National Severe Storms Lab At 6:46pm yesterday (Sunday) evening, a…
Two-dimensional wetting technique gives room temperature ice
Now if we can just apply this treatment to all the glaciers and the Arctic… Artificially controlling water condensation leads to ‘room-temperature ice’ Via Eurekalert. College Park, MD (July 27,…
New peer reviewed paper refutes claims of blizzards of last winter being driven by "global warming"
Paging Joe Romm: In fact, this record-breaking snowstorm is pretty much precisely what climate science predicts. Since one typically can’t make a direct association between any individual weather event and…
Dr. John Christy: “no-significant-trend” in S. Sierra snowfall since 1916
While there’s always lots of worry in California and Nevada over water supplies driven by the Sierra snowpack, and wailing in the MSM over what global warming will do to…
Willis publishes his thermostat hypothesis paper
I’m sure WUWT readers will recall this excellent guest post at WUWT just over one year ago: The Thermostat Hypothesis Now published in E&E Volume 21, Number 4 / August 2010…
Bonnie bombs
All the worry being foisted in the MSM related to “Bonnie” and the Gulf Oil spill seems to be evaporating. NHC has discontinued Tropical Storm Warnings. BULLETIN TROPICAL DEPRESSION BONNIE…
Mapping the cold snap in South America
More from the “weather is not climate” department in the “hottest year so far ever”. Our previous article on this here, illustrated the scope of the event in human terms,…
Cold snap freezes South America – beaches whitened, some areas experience snow for the first time in living memory
From the “weather is not climate” department, more chilling news from the southern hemisphere. Guest post By Alexandre Aguiar MetSul Weather Center via ICECAP A brutal and historical cold snap…
CO2 Optical Illusion
By Steve Goddard People see what they want or expect to see. A great example is in today’s NASA Earth Observatory image of the day article. A heat wave scorched…
A spot check on NOAA's "hottest so far" presser
From the story: The Australian’s overheated time warp misses half of 2010 which had a NOAA press release in it below the fold, Dr. Richard Keen weighs in and does a…
The Australian's overheated time warp misses half of 2010
Crickey! The year ain’t over yet mates. (h/t to Australian reader “Michael”) Heh, you gotta love the headline. Of course when we keep finding climate stations like this one, which…
Research suggests that hurricane forecasts on intensity could never be feasible
Quick- somebody tell Mike Mann: Surprisingly regular patterns in hurricane energy discovered Research suggests that hurricane forecasts on intensity could never be feasible Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona via Eurekalert Researchers…
Hot in Europe – Cold in South America
By Steve Goddard NCEP is forecasting temperatures far above normal for the next week in Europe. I don’t think I have ever seen the Europe map so red before. This…
A Carefree Record High Temperature in Arizona
UPDATE: We have the photo situation under control, Please don’t go to the Carefree Skyranch Airport as they’ve been getting a number of calls and visits. A follow up report…
84 year old lowest daytime high temperature record broken at LAX, 98 year record tied at San Diego, plus a string of records at many other cities
From the “weather is not climate department”, while the east gets a heat wave, southern California sets chilly records in July over several days. Both Los Angeles and San Diego…
Heatwave In Philadelphia
By Steve Goddard New high temperature records have been set for Philadelphia: RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 805 AM EDT THU JUL 8 2010 …RECORD TEMPERATURES…
Baltimore/DC NWS provides historical heat wave perspective
I’ve got another post coming up after this one about the record high temperature set in Baltimore today… RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC 0547 PM EDT…
Weather vs. Climate
By Steven Goddard I recently had the opportunity to attend a meeting of some top weather modelers. Weather models differ from climate models in that they have to work and…
Record cold down under
I swear, I had nothing to do with this. Speaking tonight in Canberra, details here. Weather records for Sydney here. From the “weather is not climate department”: Sydney recorded its…
Alex – first Atlantic Hurricane of 2010
To help you keep an eye on it, I have the satellite imagery here along with animated loops. Click image for full size or animate this image: Click for loop>>>…
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