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…
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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…
You ask, I provide. November 2nd, 1922. Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt.
Roger Carr recently wrote in comments: HELP WANTED: I am trying to purchase (or plunder) a full copy of this story, mentioned here on this forum: A Washington, D.C. resident…
I need a little help
I’m often amazed at the reach this blog has been getting worldwide. Last month, I found it hitting almost a quarter million visits. This month it is on track to…
NOAA Newsflash – It was cold this winter!
Verifying what we’ve already known from news reports and global metrics (it was a cooler than expected winter nationwide and worldwide) NOAA just issued a press release saying that we had…
New AMS draft policy statement links Hurricane Katrina and climate
The American Meteorological Society is offering up an opportunity to submit comments on a draft policy titled: AMS Policy Statement on National Weather and Climate Priorities which you can view…
To Tell the Truth: Will the Real Global Average Temperature Trend Please Rise? Part1
To Tell the Truth: Will the Real Global Average Temperature Trend Please Rise? Part I A guest post by Basil Copeland [NOTE: After seeing some other analyses posted in comments…
A note from Richard Lindzen on statistically significant warming
Yesterday, in response to the thread on “3 of 4 global metrics show nearly flat temperature anomaly in the last decade” I got a short note from MIT’s Richard Lindzen…
Feb 2008 RSS global temperature anomaly near zero and in good agreement with UAH
Last week I posted the University of Alabama, Huntsville (UAH) Microwave Sounder Unit (MSU) global temperature anomaly data for February 2008 with a note that it showed only a marginal increase from January…
Putting myths about UAH and RSS satellite data to rest
The NOAA-N Polar Orbiting Weather Satellite There have been some questions posed recently about how the satellite global temperature record is created by UAH and RSS from the MSU (Microwave…
3 of 4 global metrics show nearly flat temperature anomaly in the last decade
It has been 10 years since the super El Niño of 1998 helped to spike global temperatures dramatically. Now since it appears we are in the opposite phase, I thought…
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