Monthly Archives: June 2012

I’m just back from a UHI bike ride at 11pm. It was 60 degrees in the Safeway parking lot and 50 degrees in the open space on the opposite side of the intersection. Weather is calm, and overcast with either … Continue reading →

Arctic sea ice extent is lowest on record for the date. End of May ice thickness was lowest on record at 1.7 metres. Calculated by dividing PIOMAS volume by UIUC area. Last September’s thickness was lowest on record at 1.3 … Continue reading →

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FOREST FIRES IN COLORADO. – People in Northwest Part of the State Said to be Fleeing for Their Lives — Loss Will Be Enormous. – View Article – NYTimes.com

06 Jun 1921 – FLOOD AND FIRE. COLORADO DISASTER. 1200 REPORTED…

19 Jan 1950 – Soldier Killed In Fire Battle COLORADO SPRINGS, …

Phil Jones has readings from exactly one thermometer in the southern hemisphere during 1850, and is still able to report the 1850 southern hemisphere anomaly within a precision of 0.001 degrees. www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/crutem3vsh.txt

If those New England seasons feel far warmer these days than they were 20 years ago, it’s because they are. So are Florida’s, Arizona’s, and Washington State’s. A State-by-State Climate Map – NYTimes.com According to GISS 2006, Florida is cooler … Continue reading →

One of the things we have learned about GISS is that they overwrite data in place. For example, there have been several radically different versions of the Reykjavik temperature data already this year. They have blocked access to data archiving engines … Continue reading →

The Big Blowup of 1910 The winter and spring of 1910 were dry, uncommonly dry, in the Pacific Northwest, especially the interior portions east of the Cascades. The snow did not fall; then the rain did not fall. The temperatures … Continue reading →