Monthly Archives: August 2011

June and July in England were the coldest since 1987, and almost three degrees colder than 1676. http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/cetml1659on.dat

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg7OTs7cif4] I have no idea what made me think of that. h/t to tmitsss

Over the last ten years, Texas has averaged 29.3 inches of rain per year, 1.3 inches above the long term average. During the ten year period from 1947 to 1956, rainfall averaged only 22.6 inches. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/tx.html

But ….  I thought climate was like 30 years or something …… A new study in the journal Nature finds that the climate event El Niño Southern Oscillation played a role in 21 percent of civil conflicts from 1950 to … Continue reading →

It is raining heavily in College Station and starting to rain in Austin. No such luck for Texas Tech though. http://www.wunderground.com/

From September 1956 to January 1957, all of Texas suffered extreme drought. At no time during  2011 has the entire state been listed as being under extreme drought.  

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ h/t to Ivan

August 22, 2010                                     August 23, 2011 Last year the press got hysterical about a chunk of ice which fractured off a glacier in Greenland. As you can see, the devastation is equally as bad as last year.

HURRICANE WARNING! PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY Serious Damage Projected for N.Y. and New England From our Weather Advisor’s Joe D’Aleo, Art Horn and Joe Bastardi, this is likely to be the worst hurricane this century for the Northeast. Please take appropriate … Continue reading →