England Rainfall Trends 2025

For all the talk of droughts, last year in England rainfall finished well within normal bounds. The worst droughts were, of course, all prior to the Second World War.

Cloud Seeding History: Looking Back at the Colorado River Basin Pilot Project

So, when cloud seeding purveyors come “a knockin’” to your county, state, water district, etc., claiming that they will increase your water supply, mitigate a drought: Caveat emptor!

False, Axios, Atlanta’s Rainfall Increase Isn’t Attributable to Climate Change

Climate Central continues to push a simplistic narrative that ignores fundamental atmospheric physics, misuses regional data, and omits well-established meteorological processes like UHI and aerosol-induced rainfall. Until outlets like Axios…

The Rain In Spain Stays Mainly The Same

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Part 1. The Study. I came across a study that’s been getting some play in the usual climatastrophist circles. The study is entitled Impact of…

An Intense Christmas Atmospheric River. No California Drought This Year

The result or this  atmospheric river and some weaken cousins this week, will be massive rainfall on the West Coast.

Interesting:

Through these findings, the researchers identified how electric field variations correlate with specific weather conditions. This enhanced understanding of electric field responses to weather events could significantly improve nowcasting systems…

Wind Speeds Dropping, Rainfall Similar to a Century Ago – the Climate News You Won’t Hear in the Mainstream

No doubt computer models are behind this crystal ball gazing but the actual evidence of recent trends suggests something more modest. Homewood notes that annual rainfall in England and Wales…

The (Pacific Northwest) Storm Reveals Itself. The Eastside Wind Threat

Bottom line:  strong winds from the east, gusting to 40-70 mph, will occur east of Puget Sound and will be stronger towards the Cascades.  Expect substantial vegetation damage and many…

Wrong, Bloomberg, Real World Evidence Proves Extreme Rainfall Hasn’t Become More Frequent or Deadly

Instead of leaping to conclusions, Bloomberg and other media outlets should focus on reporting about realistic strategies like improved infrastructure, better flood management, and adaptation to natural weather variability—solutions that…

India’s monsoon rains hit four-year high in boost to crop output

One long period of severe drought stands out, the 1960s to 80s, which was directly linked to global cooling. This episode was part of the wider drought belt, which extended…

India Monsoon Drying Up, Says BBC

As is often the case with the BBC’s coverage of climate, the opposite is true. Far from drying up, India’s monsoons have been getting wetter since the 1960s:

What Happened to Your “Wettest Summer”, Met Office?

As I noted at the time, the Met Office’s warning did not even tally with their own 3-Month Outlook, and was clearly designed as pure spin intended to scare the…

Met Office State of the UK Climate Report

In neither dataset is there any evident long term trend.

Saharan dust regulates hurricane rainfall

…the leading factor controlling hurricane precipitation is not, as traditionally thought, sea surface temperature or humidity in the atmosphere. Instead, it’s Sahara dust

Met Office Warns: Extremely Wet Summer…After Warning Droughts Would Become More Frequent

Climate science keeps contradicting itself

It Gets Rainier

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, since I was on a roll with my last post Rainergy, I thought I’d look further at the Copernicus global rainfall dataset. I started…

Is UK Rainfall Becoming More Extreme? Not at Oxford

All of this is, of course, weather. I defy anybody to find a pattern or trend towards rainfall becoming more intense in Oxford in the above chart.

L A Times Falsely Hypes a “Wild” 2023/2024 Rainy Season while Concealing NOAA Climate Science Data Establishing this Season as Completely Normal

The Times claims of “supercharged” and “wild” rainfall between December 2023 through February 2024 in California are pathetic and a clear demonstration of the climate science incompetence represented by climate…

Is climate change to blame for the atmospheric rivers impacting California? The evidence says “No.”

From CFACT By Chris Martz Since the end of January, California has been pelted by a series of atmospheric rivers bringing rounds of moderate-to-heavy rainfall for days on end, spurring…

How to Falsify Weather Station Data

Two guys in Colorado took advantage of certain type of crop insurance, as explained by U.S. Attorney Cole Finegan:  ”One way the United States Department of Agriculture supports farmers and…