From NASA JPL, video animation follows. Wet weather is again hitting drought-stricken California as the second and larger of two back-to-back storms makes its way ashore. The storms are part…
Category: Rainfall
Who knew? Plants are 'heavy water' rain gauges
From the GFZ GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Helmholtz Centre and the Varved D2O department: The water cycle amplifies abrupt climate change The role of the hydrological cycle during abrupt temperature changes is…
California's new toilet police
Last Thursday in my local newspaper The Chico Enterprise-Record there was an editorial about saving water through bureaucracy: Editorial: Toilet police don’t want job. It was was of those “only…
USA cold weather records outnumber warm records 6 to 1
Records for the “polar vortex” outbreak show a big disparity between warm and cold records. There were 655 cold records in the past week compared to 101 warm records, a…
Forget summer in the UK and wonky Met Office predictions, atmospheric rivers and floods loom
Like this one: Image from NOAA ESRL From the Institute of Physics Atmospheric rivers set to increase UK winter flooding The prolonged heat wave that has bathed the UK in…
No Consensus among Three Global Precipitation Datasets
Global precipitation is a crucial part of our understanding of the global Water Cycle. The climate science community can’t hope predict how precipitation will change in the future without knowing…
Whoops! An inconvenient truth for 'global warming makes more rain' advocates: reduced pollution increases rainfall
From the “Department of Unintended Consequences” and Georgia State University comes this oops moment in science. And all that time we are being told by people like Peter Stott that…
Hawaiians 'won't know what rainfall is'
Apologies in advance for the Vinerism. From the University of Hawaii ‑ SOEST, something that doesn’t seem to be a problem based on the past data I’ve found: Source: USGS…
Improbable Maximum Precipitation
Guest post by Willis Eschenbach There’s a new study out from NOAA called “Probable maximum precipitation (PMP) and climate change”, paywalled of course, which claims that global warming will lead…
Future shifts in rainfall
From UC Berkeley: Rising temperature difference between hemispheres could dramatically shift rainfall patterns in tropics By Robert Sanders, Media Relations BERKELEY — One often ignored consequence of global climate change…
Dust's excellent global adventure ends in California's Sierra Nevada
From the Scripps Institute: Saharan and Asian Dust, Biological Particles End Global Journey in California UCSD, NOAA study is the first to show that dust and other aerosols from one…
A New Kind Of Rain
By Paul Homewood Verity Jones, over at Digging in the Clay, reminds me of an interview with Lord Smith, the politician formerly known as Chris Smith, in the Sunday Telegraph.…
Global warming – more complex than we thought
From the University of Hawaii ‑ SOEST, more modeling mania for the future. New research shows complexity of global warming Greenhouse gases versus solar heating Global warming from greenhouse gases…
UK Rainfall 2012-The Report The Met Office Should Have Produced
Guest post by Paul Homewood According to the Met Office, UK has just had the second wettest year on record, just behind 2000. These claims, however, are based on records…
Met Office Accused Of Misleading Public Over Rainfall Trends
From Dr. Benny Peiser at The GWPF Questions Over Met Office Rain & Drought Predictions The forecast for average UK rainfall slightly favours drier-than-average conditions for April-May-June as a whole,…
Erratic Environment May Be Key to Human Evolution
Versus Image Credit: Wikipedia Image Credit: Anne Knock From Live Science: At Olduvai Gorge, where excavations helped to confirm Africa was the cradle of humanity, scientists now…
Northern California's coming super soaker event via the 'Pineapple Express'
UPDATE: Added this HiDef imag showing a trio of lows (commas shaped clouds) in the Gulf of Alaska and southward: There’s lots of buzz here in Northern California about a…
Global precipitation variability from 1940 to 2009 contradicts models
Media release received from the American Geophysical Union on October 29, 2012: Global precipitation variability decreased from 1940 to 2009 One of the strongly held assumptions of climate change is…
USGS models ‘Climate-change-induced aridity’ in California
More climate modeling from a non-climate organization, I hope they still track Earthquakes. News Release Climate Change and Water Supply in California’s Central Valley: A Model Approach SAN DIEGO, Calif.…
More on the wettest April in 100 years in the UK
Readers may recall how the Met Office botched yet another forecast, calling for drought but instead getting a month of deluge. Here’s the numbers. By Paul Homewood The UK Met…
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