More news from the weather is not climate department. A historic winter storm event in South America is underway (July 22nd, 2009) meanwhile in the northern hemisphere, fresh snow in…
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Flashback: Snow in Buenos Aires – first time in 89 years
Flashback: More from the “weather is not climate” department. NOTE: These are news stories about unusual July weather in Argentina from 2007 which I thought might interest readers. Please note…
NYC fails to reach 85°F in June – first time since 1916
Click image for ABC News video report. Here are the details from the NYC National Weather Service Office:
Record cold in Portland Maine in July
More from the “weather is not climate department”. Emphasis below mine. And it is having an effect not only on crops but tourism in the Northeast US. – Anthony Statement…
Bill Gates to Control Hurricanes: DOH!
From the “would you, could you, with a boat department”. Bill goes macro. The Simpsons are cited by patent watcher. Patent watcher “theodp,” who tipped us off to the filings,…
Cooler weather bringing the "luck of the Irish" to the USA
While we don’t have to worry about starvation like the Irish due to lack of crop diversity, it is interesting that we are seeing the same mold that caused the…
Chicago – coolest July 8th in 118 years
Another entry from the weather is not climate department, this time courtesy of Tom Skilling, WGN-TV meteorologist. Chicago has its coolest July 8 in 118 years By Tom Skilling July…
"…frost has never been reported before in July"
Frost in July hits P.E.I. from CBC News Temperatures dropped to a record low in Prince Edward Island overnight Tuesday, with reports of frost throughout the province. An official record…
UAH global temperature anomaly – hitting the slopes
Mathematician Luboš Motl takes on the new UAH data (source here) and some current thinking about slopes in global climate by adding his own perspective and analysis. Be sure to…
Arctic temp above 80N parallel still below freezing – trend flat
WUWT readers may recall seeing this article last week: Arctic temperature is still not above 0°C – the latest date in fifty years of record keeping In that article, Joe D’Aleo…
Note to NCDC climate report authors: try using the telephone next time
Yesterday I reposted one of Warren Meyers essays on the hilariously flawed GCCI report from NCDC suggesting that the electrical grid is at risk due to increased weather related events…
NOAA: FUBAR high temp/climate records from faulty sensor to remain in place at Honolulu
WUWT readers will probably remember yesterdays’ story about the malfunctioning temperature sensor at the ASOS station at Honolulu airport next to an asphalt access road. Well guess what? Even though…
Just where are those grid killing tornadoes anyway?
John Kerry and Tornadoes – not a good mix Warren Meyer over at climate-skeptic.com is a bit fired up over the NCDC sponsored, Los Angeles PR firm processed, Global Climate…
First Ever Ice Wine in Brazil
Via Joe D’Aleo at ICECAP Team Vinicola Perico, Vinicola Vineyards in Santa Catarina, Brazil Our friends at the METSUL reports that for the first time ever in Brazil icewine has…
The Thermostat Hypothesis
Guest Essay by Willis Eschenbach Abstract The Thermostat Hypothesis is that tropical clouds and thunderstorms, along with other emergent phenomena like dust devils, tornadoes, and the El Nino/La Nina alteration,…
Suggestions of "strong negative cloud feedbacks" in a warmer climate
I thought this post on clouds and climate modeling below from Steve McIntyre’s Climate Audit was interesting, because it highlights the dreaded “negative feedbacks” that many climate modelers say don’t…
AccuWeather's Joe Bastardi: "the 'science is in' crowd does not want them to see facts" and parts of US to have "year without a summer"
excerpts: From Joe’s European Weather Blog: The current unseasonable cold across northwest Europe is not the only place where the arctic hound is calling as yet another blast of reality…
Met Office Summer Forecast Drowning Again?
By Steven Goddard For the third straight summer, the UK Met Office has forecast hot weather using their state of the art computer models. Summer 2007 and 2008 were complete…
A new study on predicting maximum hurricane intensity using lightning
David L. Hagen writes in with an interesting new paper, Maximum hurricane intensity preceded by increase in lightning frequency (PDF). I find it fascinating. It was published in Nature Geoscience…
Dickinson ND sees first June snowfall in 60 years
Updated with a photo, Daryl Ritchison writes: If you want pictures of the Dickinson snow, here are a couple of pictures sent from a viewer of mine. They reported 1.5″…
Gavin Schmidt's new climate picture book: Anti-Science?
Reprinted here by request from Harold Ambler – Anthony What follows is an open letter to the Salon writer Peter Dizikes, who recently published an article about a new book…
Air France Flight 447: A detailed meteorological analysis
NOTE: This writeup is from an acquaintance of mine who wrote some powerful meteorological software, Digital Atmosphere, that I use in my office. He used that software (and others) to…
Divining images in the clouds
Everyone see things in the clouds. People, animals, Christ on the cross, UFO’s, angels, and even schizophrenically imagined chemical attacks by contrails. You name it, somebody has seen it. So…
Tornado Season So Far Not as Bad as 2008
WUWT readers may remember last year that we had an early outbreak of Tornado season, and media opportunist Senator John Kerry immediately jumped at the chance to blame the weather…
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