Author Archives: Tony Heller

During all those cold snowy springs we had in Colorado since 2006, when I was freezing my butt off coaching soccer in snowstorms and the rivers were flooding  every June – they told us that we were only 0.01% of … Continue reading →

The next two weeks are the hottest weeks of the year on the Greenland Ice Sheet, and temperatures are blazing at -17C. Experts at the National Academy of Sciences say that all this melting will cause a foot of sea … Continue reading →

The National Park Service has placed a ban on shooting in Pawnee National Grasslands, based on the idea that bullets could start a fire. I have yet to see lead or steel shot spontaneously combust, but the Obama administration knows better. In 1978, … Continue reading →

Today has been the hottest day of the year here in Fort Collins. The official high was 99.5 On June 23, 1954 the official high temperature was 102 degrees. It was 2.5 degrees hotter when CO2 was 320 PPM. June, … Continue reading →

There is a match about to start in Miami which has Messi and Drogba on one team, and Suarez and Dempsey on the opposite team.

Weather Street:Clouds and Precipitation Forecast Movie

I just watched an Obama ad criticizing Romney’s jobs record in Massachusetts, claiming that the number of jobs created was very small. The graph below shows Massachusetts unemployment while Romney was governor (blue) and US unemployment while Obama was president (red) at the same scale. … Continue reading →

My favorite USHCN hack to bring temperatures up, is called the “time of observation bias.” It is based on the idea that all 50,000 or so USHCN station owners have been morons. It is a misnomer. The correct name for it would … Continue reading →

The official temperature is 98 degrees. The highest I measured on my bike was 92 degrees. The Weather Underground map has a 15 degree spread over two miles, yet Phil Jones was able to determine the southern hemisphere temperature in … Continue reading →

I’m headed out for a 700 foot hill climb on my bicycle. I’m guessing that the 107F reading is probably bogus.