Old Atmosphere Returns

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1. slimething says:

   May 7, 2012 at 3:20 pm

   How was it determined 2011 was Texas’ worst drought for a single year? What was the closest year?

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2. John B., M.D. says:

   May 7, 2012 at 5:53 pm

   See 1930s, 1950s, 1988 for comparison: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip/drought/historical-palmers.php Highlight the months you want in blue, type in the range of years, and you get a nice slide show.

   Here they changed the methodology, with data only going back to 2002: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/temp-and-precip/drought/nadm/nadm-maps.php

   Those who claimed 2011 in Texas was the worst year ever cherry-picked their data and methodology instead of looking at a big picture of a hundred years of data (which in and of itself is a tiny fraction of the geological record).

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3. glenncz says:

   May 7, 2012 at 9:13 pm

   If you go to the Texas precipitation page
   http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/tx.html
   and create a chart of annual precipitation, you’ll see that the drought for 2011 in Tx was quite similar to the droughts in about 1957 and 1918. Tx precip is highly variable. As you know drought/flood is a sure sign of global warming, so Tx is a perfect example of the havoc that “bad man” can have on the climate. drought/flood can really be catastrophic. it’s really terrible what has happened with that drought/flood.

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4. John B., M.D. says:

   May 7, 2012 at 11:17 pm

   From WUWT, the data adjustments continue: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/05/07/trenberth-takes-on-uah-satellite-data-in-a-new-paper/

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