It just doesn’t get any better than this. The Occupy Wall Street Mob had a “Climate Justice Day” scheduled for today. I don’t think they figured on a “Nightmare on…
Tag: National Weather Service
Major Snow for Northeastern USA – NYC may get earliest 1" snowfall since the Civil War
How long before somebody blames it on global warming? Who will be first? Romm? McKibben? AP Science writer Seth Borenstein?, some clueless politician? New York has received measurable snow before…
Some facts about deaths due to heat waves
We have a strong, but not unprecedented, heat wave gripping the central USA. NOAA made this video animation to show the breadth of it, which I converted to YouTube so…
Winter Weather in California in late June
While not unprecedented, it certainly is odd for the last week of June to see a weather bulletin with snow accumulation like this from NWS/NOAA. Here’s the storm system:
NOAA hurricane outlook indicates an above-normal Atlantic season
Looks pretty much the same as Mann’s hurricane season predictions The Atlantic basin is expected to see an above-normal hurricane season this year, according to the seasonal outlook issued by NOAA’s…
Measuring rain the easy way: using an automatic logging rain gauge
A few days ago I mentioned John Neilsen Gammon’s post about The other half of the USHCN network – precipitation In that post I had a picture of the standard rain…
NOAA: Preliminary analysis of April 27-28 tornado outbreak makes it the 3rd deadliest so far
National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) map below shows tornado tracks logged by NEXRAD Doppler Radar NOAA’s preliminary estimate is that there were 211 tornadoes on April 27-28, 2011. During the…
Summary of the April 14-16 US tornado outbreak
While Mike Smith over at Meteorological Musings has a great post on predicting the recent tornado outbreak in the eastern USA, NOAA has this postmortem summary of the event below,…
National Weather Service Union warns people will die because of budget cuts
Update: Senator Harry Reid laments the loss of the “Cowboy Poetry Festival” due to federal budget cuts. Seems that there is indeed some fat to be cut from the proposed…
Stormchasing in Oklahoma
Well not exactly, there’s no storms here today, but there are a lot of vehicles like this one: I’m attending this conference, not as a storm chaser, but as a…
New record low temperatures in San Francisco Bay area
Jan Null of Golden Gate Weather writes: Based on hourly weather observations a number of minimum temperature records were either set or tied in the Bay Area this morning.
Low snow in SFO – to be or not to be?
Is Al Gore at his Fisherman’s Wharf Condo? Our own Charles The Moderator sent me a query today, along with a link to this SFO Chron article about the possibility…
Blizzard stories from the National Weather Service
Mike Smith tips us to this NOAA Communications Office Summary of stories about the February blizzard. It makes for interesting reading. As Record Snow Falls, NWS Employees Hunker Down An…
Frequency of Big Snows: Northeast U.S. and Colorado
Guest post by Richard Keen, PhD I’m sure by now every snow freak in the Northeast U.S. has pored over the “Billboard Top 40” (actually, 41) list of major snow…
Frostbite Falls
Guest post by E.M.Smith Temperature Inversion Original Image The Event We’ve recently had some very cold days in International Falls. This posting: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/01/21/new-record-cold-tempertures-in-minnesota/ has a nice write up of the…
UPDATED: Nearly 71% of the USA is covered in snow, 49 of 50 states have snow on the ground
UPDATE: The map and data have been updated from NOHRS. We now have added to yesterday’s total with new overnight snows, bringing the CONUS coverage to 70.9%. KGMB-TV in Hawaii…
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…
NOAA on Miami Florida: Coldest December on Record
From the NOAA National Weather Service Office in Miami comes this year end report: 2010 South Florida Weather Year in Review Coldest December on Record Concludes Year of Extremes December…
Heaviest December snow in NYC in 6 decades – 5th largest ever – hundreds of other snow records set around the nation
According to the Bloomberg article:
First white Christmas in Atlanta since 1882, NCDC gets new snow record in their own backyard
Apologies to my readers and my family, I made the mistake of watching TV today. So I had to report on this rare weather event. Here’s what the National Weather…
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