NOTE: There seems to be an abundance of anecdotal weather evidence that the northern latitudes in North America have had a cooler summer than usual. Of course there are places…
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Strong Start Increases NOAA’s Confidence for Above-Normal Atlantic Hurricane Season
Contact: Carmeyia Gillis FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 301-763-8000, ext, 7163 Aug. 7, 2008 Strong Start Increases NOAA’s Confidence for Above-Normal Atlantic Hurricane Season In the August update to the Atlantic hurricane…
Anchorage's record setting cold summer
From the Anchorage Daily News, some anecdotal evidence that we may not see an ice-free arctic this summer. I had previously blogged on the lateness of a 70 degree plus…
Nutty Story of the Day: "Global Warming" is Killing the Penguins in Antarctica
This picture is my own choice – it is not related to the UK Mirror story You have to wonder how the press allows stories like these to get published…
Life in California: not fun at the moment
This has been one of the roughest years I can remember living here. We’ve had two massive wind storms (one of which damaged my Stevenson Screens used for the paint…
Going Down: Death Rates Due to Extreme Weather Events
During our discussion of the preposterous news story from Pravda, claiming this headline: “Earth begins to kill people for changing its climate” a scientist dropped in to provide us some…
Charlotte smashes 123 year record low temperature
GREG LACOUR, The Charolotte Observer This morning was downright cool in the Charlotte region — cool enough to break a record that had stood for more than a century.The temperature…
Winter in the high Rockies finally gets plowed
From the International Herald Tribune, a reminder of just what a significant winter we’ve had. “So much snow still remains that the Park Service had to move the 75th-anniversary celebration…
A bit chilly for June
Still lots of cold air coming in from the Arctic. Looks like the heat wave in NYC is coming down too. Only 8 days until the summer solstice, the sunlight distribution…
Anecdotal Climate & Weather Roundup
Seattle has coldest first week of June since 1891 Seattle just experienced the coldest first week of June, according to climate records dating to 1891, said Cliff Mass, University of…
NOAA reports on our cooler than normal spring
NOAA: U.S. Has 36th Coolest Spring on Record June 6, 2008 High resolution (Credit: NOAA) The March-May spring season was the 36th coolest on record for the contiguous United…
California Proclaims Drought – Governator demands action
Added humor above – click for original image Governor Schwarzenegger Proclaims Drought and Orders Immediate Action to Address Situation San Francisco’s Spring, driest on record: The rainfall for the months of…
NASA sends "The Weather Rock" to Mars
When I made a post discussing the weather station on NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander titled “First Weather Station on the Surface of Mars“, I expressed some concern that there might…
Weather Picture Of The Day – relaunched as a blog
Weather Picture Of The Day is a Website that I started back in the year 2000 as a way to provide interesting weather content for the public. Digital Photography was…
NOAA Predicts a Below-Normal Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season
While the forecast for the Atlantic Hurricane season is active and for 12-16 named storms, the Pacific forecast is just in time to coincide with recent pronouncements of no link between…
The pause that cools: No more warming until 2015?
You may recall the previous post where Basil Copeland and I looked at correlations between HadCRUT global temperature anomaly and sunspot numbers. This is similar, but looks at the Pacific…
More on the PDO shift cited by NASA
For now, we have about 1 year of significant cold phase tendency in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), here is the last 108 years of the PDO index, plotted from…
NASA: PDO flip to cool phase confirmed – cooler times ahead for the West Coast?
La Nina and Pacific Decadal Oscillation Cool the Pacific Click here to view full image (228 kb) “The shift in the PDO can have significant implications for global climate, affecting…
There's a chill in the air
Click for a larger image For example, in America’s heartland (thanks to Joe D’Aleo at ICECAP): Cedar Rapids and the surrounding Midwest has been consistently colder than normal since December.…
Snow and Storms at Easter in Europe, Canada, and USA
More indicators of a colder than normal winter continuing in the northern hemisphere. From the London Telegraph: Britain is enduring its most miserable Easter for 25 years as Arctic winds…
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