I’m getting lots of emails from worried folks about the status of the Climate Audit website. It’s a DNS snafu caused by closing a billing for hosting service that isn’t…
Significant Storms Headed to Northern California
You can click the image to see an animation that shows the current data at the time you are viewing, which depending on when you click, may not match the…
Spotting Weather Stations in SFO
San Francisco’s official weather stations, new and old locations are in this photo – can you find them? Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of meeting up with Steve…
Now that's a big snowstorm
From my own www.IntelliWeather.com image service, here’s the composite radar image for Saturday 12/15/07. You can click the image to see an animation that shows the current data at the…
From AGU – the cause of Aurora Borealis and TSI questions
Scientists think they have discovered the energy source of auroras borealis and australis, the spectacular upper atmospheric color displays seen in the highest latitudes of the our planet. At the same…
Signs of a new solar cycle?
From NASA: The solar physics community is abuzz this week. No, there haven’t been any great eruptions or solar storms. The source of the excitement is a modest knot of…
Off to AGU
I’m off to San Francisco to the AGU meeting and to meetup with Steve McIntyre and others. So I won’t be posting for awhile. I’ll have some new material over…
How not to measure temperature, part 45
I’ve covered California’s temperature stations and their exposure problems extensively, now it’s time to head north to Alaska. When you think of Alaska, you think of cold, snowy, pristine remote…
Spot the thermometer in this photo
I have a new tool for evaluation of the micro-site measurement environment near thermometers. The first site I’ve surveyed has not one but two potential biases. Can you spot them? Can…
USHCN National Weather Station Quality Plot
Early in the project, one of the criticisms heard against the surfacestations.org effort was that there had been “cherry picking” going on in the selections of stations to survey, and that…
How not to measure temperature, part 44
I’ve seen a couple of weather stations mounted on rooftops before, for example the station in Eureka, CA was on the roof of the post office for many years. This…
NASA/NOAA may have lost GOES East satellite
The GOES East satellite (GOES 12) went through a station keeping maneuver (used to maintain orbit and attitude) yesterday, and then shortly afterwards communications ceased. GOES 12 is no…
How not to measure temperature, part 43
Continuiung our tour of California climate monitoring stations, we visit the Portola train yard, where they not only switch freight, but measure the temperature too. This station is # 04-7085 and…
How not to measure temperature, part 42
Continuing our tour of some of the worst climate monitoring stations in California, we come to San Jose. In previous posts we’ve seen stations put next to parking lots. In…
How not to measure temperature, part 41
Lately we’ve been touring COOP weather stations in California to illustrate how they are prone to biases in their siting. This problem is documented in the recent paper LaDochy, S., R. Medina, and…
A New Paper on California Climate Variability
Today I obtained the paper: LaDochy, S., R. Medina, and W. Patzert. 2007. Recent California climate variability: spatial and temporal patterns in temperature trends. Climate Research, 33, 159-169 You can download…
A good year for CO2 in 2006
Just released: new DOE figures showing that the US has reduced CO2 production 1.5% last year in 2006, even without the US signing on to Kyoto. You can read the…
2007 Hurricane Season ends quietly
November 30th marks the official end of hurricane season. Below is some good news, courtesy of Ryan Maue at Florida State University COAPS : The 2007 Atlantic Hurricane season did not…
How not to measure temperature, part 40
Rounding out a review of California weather stations this week we visit Gilroy, CA, the garlic capital. This COOP station has an MMTS temperature sensor on a pole just a few…
How not to measure temperature, part 39
One of the most surprising things I’ve learned from the surfacestations.org project is that for some odd reason, there are a number of climate monitoring stations of record in the USA at…
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