As many know, I was on a road trip for two weeks. On my return into California, I traveled a road I had done many many times – California Highway…
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More on ARKstorm
I covered this earlier in a post here. Atmospheric Rivers can cause this sort of pattern, read more about them here. If the goal of press releases like this one…
Snow in Saratoga
“A veritable dusting” as Time says of Friday’s snow in San Francisco (“the first snow in 35 years“), but that was at 900 feet (in the Twin Peaks neighborhood). Here’s…
Friday Funny Double Feature
Today we have excellent joviality from Josh, plus some commercial video commentary on those poor souls in San Francisco that are about to deal with their first significant snow in…
California's AB32 cap-n-trade: "could be worse than sticky"
SPECIAL REPORT-The California Carbon Rush (Hold the Eureka!) It could be worse than sticky, argues Gary Stern, a power utility executive. Stern lived through the disastrous deregulation of the California…
USGS enters the weather porn business with ARkStorm
It used to be enough to push worry about El Niño in the news, now the USGS takes it to whole new level. I don’t dispute the historical evidence of…
California's remarkable December weather
While Miami and much of south Florida experienced the coldest December on record, the “other sunny state”, California, has been getting blasted with snow. My family and I experienced this…
An end of an era – the incandescent light bulb
Also, there’s a poll at the end of this article, asking about what you might be doing for the upcoming ban in California. On January 1st, 2011, just a few…
Contest
By Charles The Moderator, I have lived in California all my life, the first half in SoCal, the second half in NorCal. A funny thing happens ever year. If we…
Wow, that's a lot of water – major rainfall in SoCal
Southwestern USA, 7 day cumulative percent of normal, shown below: Source from water.weather.gov Have a look at the 7day totals:
You know it's bad California when green companies move out of Berkeley
Excerpts via Bloomberg: Wind energy company moving headquarters to KC By BILL DRAPER The Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. A California-based wind turbine manufacturer is moving its headquarters and production…
Chicago Climate Exchange = FAIL, Now California opens "Pacific Carbon Exchange"
UPDATE: related story shows what can happen when emissions trading doesn’t have proper checks and balances – Carbon trading tempts firms to make greenhouse gas California hasn’t learned from the…
Surfacestations.org News
California nearing completion for USHCN surveys. There are a number of surveys in the que that will soon be online, bringing California’s USHCN network to within half a dozen (or…
A Cool and Wet October for California
The month of October has been significantly cooler than normal. This was seen with average daily maximum and average daily mean temperatures that were below normal for all 9 key cities…
California Climate, PDO, LOD, and Sunspot Departure
Above: Length of Day Compared to Global Temperature since 1890 Below is a paper by former California State Climatologist, Jim Goodridge. Jim has been quietly working on a number of…
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