A couple of days ago, Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. updated his famous graph of hurricane drought, and despite some ribbing from me on what could happen in May 2014, has…
Tag: Atlantic
Hurricane season begins with a new record hurricane drought for the USA
The Atlantic Hurricane season starts today, June 1st, 2013. While NOAA predicts an active Atlantic Hurricane Season, it is useful to note this other milestone of hurricane drought, a duration…
NOAA predicts active 2013 Atlantic hurricane season
From NOAA: In its 2013 Atlantic hurricane season outlook issued today, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is forecasting an active or extremely active season this year. For the six-month hurricane season, which begins June…
Washington Post Headline: “Worlds fish have been moving to cooler waters for decades, study finds”
This is an addition to the post Fishy Temperature Proxy by Anthony Watts. INTRODUCTION A new paper about fish migration patterns from 1970 to 2006 is getting some attention by…
On Guemas et al (2013) “Retrospective prediction of the global warming slowdown in the past decade”
I received a number of emails about the newly published Guemas et al (2013) paper titled “Retrospective prediction of the global warming slowdown in the past decade”. It’s paywalled. The…
HH Lamb–“Climate: Present, Past & Future–Vol 2”–In Review–Part I
Guest post by Paul Homewood (reposted from his blog Not a lot of people know that please visit and bookmark) Part 1 of a three part series. Hubert Lamb was…
Argo Notes the Third
I got into this investigation of Argo because I disbelieved their claimed error of 0.002°C for the annual average temperature of the top mile of the ocean. I discussed this…
The DeSmoggers are crashing and burning
Well, the DeSmog Blog “coup” is going down, oh the humanity. There’s a scathing second writeup at The Atlantic by Megan McArdle (as if the first wasn’t enough) that takes…
CSU's Klotzbach and Gray Suspend December Hurricane Forecast
UPDATE: note to readers, Gray and Klotzbach are only discontinuing December forecasts for the season ahead due to limited predictive skill — for the time being. A main reason is…
The November AMO index goes negative, first time since 1996
Joe D’Aleo reports via email that the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) Index has gone negative for this past month, see the graph below: Source:http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/correlation/amon.us.data This is the first time the…
