By charles the moderator From the “No matter what happens we can attribute it to Anthropogenic Climate Change” Department. In a story in physorg.com James Overland of the US National…
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Poudre River Sets A Record
By Steven Goddard From The Declining Spring Snowcover Department Yesterday afternoon, the Cache La Poudre River set its June 12 stream flow record flowing through Fort Collins, Colorado. At 1:30…
Storm elves and sprites recorded on video
From Eurka Alert: FECYT – Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology A team of Spanish researchers has made a high-speed recording of elves and sprites in storms, fleeting and luminous…
NOAA GOES weather satellite communications at risk due to proposed FCC spectrum auction
The FCC (like many Federal agencies) has gone looking for available frequencies and money as part of this: Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan, Recommendation 5.8, p.86 (FCC, 2010). The…
The day TV weather grew up
This essay by Mike Smith hits home for me, because it parallels my experience in the midwest in 1974. That was a banner year for tornado outbreaks. The April 3rd…
Western Snowpack Update, June 2010
By Steve Goddard From the Declining Spring Snowpack Department: Mammoth Mountain, California June 2, 2010 This week’s leaderboard:
Noctilucent clouds may be more visible during this summer
From SpaceWeather.com Every summer since the late 19th century, Earth’s polar skies have lit up with gossamer, electric-blue clouds, twisting and rippling in the twilight sky. They’re called noctilucent (“night-shining”)…
Is 2010 Heading For A Record?
By Dr. David Whitehouse, the Global Warming Policy Foundation Today’s Times says, “Nasa analysis showing record global warming undermines the skeptics.” However, a closer look at the information which the…
What happens if a hurricane hits the Gulf Oil Slick?
There’s been a lot of worry and speculation over what will happen if a hurricane and the gulf oil spill collide. In response, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) has prepared…
Study concludes: "major hurricane could devastate the Houston/Galveston region"
A major hurricane could devastate the Houston/Galveston region? Whooda thunk? Thank goodness they consulted the all knowing supercomputer model to figure this fact out: “it could easily have caused $100…
NOAA Expects Busy Atlantic Hurricane Season
UPDATE: NOAA on the same day predicts a below normal east Pacific hurricane season, see below for addeddum. Contact: Chris Vaccaro, 202-536-8911 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Susan Buchanan, 301-713-0622 May 27,…
The Western Snowpack is 137% of normal
From The Declining Spring Snowcover Department Experts tell us that spring snowcover has seen rapid declines in the Northern Hemisphere over the last 20 years. As of today, western US…
New radar sees tornadic details like never before
From a University of Oklahoma press release, a view of a hook echo like never before. Norman, Okla.—At the University of Oklahoma, researchers captured unprecedented high-resolution radar data during the…
NOAA goes for National Press Club with hurricane outlook
It looks like they aren’t monkeying around. After delaying the release this week, NOAA plans to showcase the news in a more “robust” setting. Contact: Susan Buchanan, NOAA FOR IMMEDIATE…
NOAA delays due to monkey business?
Yesterday I posted an announcement about this odd press release: Think-Tank Says Trained Chimp Can Predict Hurricanes Better Than NOAA… And Puts it to the Test Today, in a strange twist…
Think-Tank Says Trained Chimp Can Predict Hurricanes Better Than NOAA… And Puts it to the Test
Chimp Predicts 6-8 Atlantic Hurricanes in 2010 Via press release: Washington, DC: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s track record in predicting the number of Atlantic hurricanes is so abysmal…
October Through March Was the Snowiest On Record In The Northern Hemisphere
By Steve Goddard Guardian Photo The experts at East Anglia and CRU told us in 2000 that : (March, 2000) According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at…
Seven Months of Winter at NCAR
By Steve Goddard View from NCAR’s roof this morning (NCAR – National Center for Atmospheric Research) From the “climate models are not climate” department. It was seven months ago today…
Add your own 'Radar Channel' to your TV
I’ve mentioned in the past that my weather technology business has been hit hard by the current economy and that from time to time I would be using WUWT to…
New paper: Tropical cyclone response to solar UV
Daily tropical cyclone intensity response to solar ultraviolet radiation J. B. Elsner, T. H. Jagger, and R. E. Hodges GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 37, L09701, doi:10.1029/2010GL043091, 2010 Abstract: An inverse…
Cold from Seattle to Sao Paulo
From the “weather is not climate” department. By Steven Goddard I noticed something interesting in the NCEP forecast for the coming week. Temperatures are predicted to be below normal across a…
New GOES-15 weather sat reaches orbit
From NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: NASA and NOAA’s Environmental Satellite Now GOES-15 CLICK IMAGE FOR VIDEO (Windows Media Player) Image above: A Delta IV launch vehicle lifts off carrying…
Another UHI effect – thunderstorms & lightning
The March-April edition of WeatherWise magazine has an interesting article in it regarding UHI (Urban Heat Island) effects of enhancing thunderstorm formation in the downwind heat plume. It Stems from…
2001-2010 was the Snowiest Decade on Record
Guest post by Steven Goddard Photo above from: NY Daily News: Record Snowfall in New York Now that we have reached the end of the meteorological winter (December-February,) Rutgers University…
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