Monthly Archives: May 2011

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http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/DM_west.htm Southeastern Colorado is listed as being in an “extreme drought” today. Over the next week, they are forecast (by WRF) to get more than one fourth of their normal annual precipitation.

http://mapcenter.hamweather.com/records/7day/us.html When the air temperature is cold, the saturation vapour pressure of water decreases – making it easier to precipitate. That is why wet weather tends to occur when it is cold. California gets almost no precipitation during the summer, … Continue reading →

Vostok ice core data http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2007/06/29/human_cause-3/ Over the last sixty years, atmospheric CO2 has risen almost 50% higher than at any other time during the last 400,000 years. Temperatures at Vostok during that time have been flat to down. The implication … Continue reading →

Hansen says that multi-metre sea level rise this century is “dead certain.” http://www.wunderground.com/

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Finally, Obama delivers on a campaign promise.

The climate models and those who use them got everything exactly wrong, which is why they will claim victory. “Never let a good crisis go to waste” — Rahm Emanuel http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/snotelanom/basinswe.html

I’ve been running NCAR’s WRF weather model (using GFS boundary conditions) for the last few weeks, and comparing vs commercial forecasts. WRF has been doing considerably better than the standard Internet forecast sites. For example, I generated this eight day … Continue reading →