Author Archives: Tony Heller

Met Office experts will be presenting new ways to maximise wind farm investment at wind energy conferences in Scotland this week in light of the volatility of wind resource over the last year. Weather patterns, and crucially wind speeds, underpin … Continue reading →

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ Utah’s Green River provides almost 50% of the water flowing into Lake Powell. It joins the Colorado River just above Cataract Canyon (a bad place to take a wooden row boat.) USGS data shows that June, 2011 will likely … Continue reading →

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Sea surface temperatures are the most important factor in determining weather over the next few months. The northern hemisphere seas are turning frigid. No surprise that California, Greenland and The UK have been running cold. http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.gif  

I don’t think that extent is very meaningful this time of year, but FWIW 2011 is tracking 2006 very closely. 2006 had the second highest summer minimum in the JAXA record. http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/seaice/extent/AMSRE_Sea_Ice_Extent.png

Julienne Stroeve from NSIDC sent her recent paper over, which she wrote in conjunction with Mark Serreze and others. Here is the abstract and link to the full document. Abstract The sequence of extreme September sea ice extent minima over … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court has blocked a federal lawsuit by states and conservation groups trying to force cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. The court said Monday that the authority to seek reductions in emissions rests with … Continue reading →

The Colorado River is flowing into Lake Powell at a record rate, and has increased by 10X over the last decade. This correlates with plummeting winter temperatures in Colorado, which are dropping at a rate of more than 50 degrees … Continue reading →

ftp://ftp.aviso.oceanobs.com/ Some years, alarmists love to pull out a map of “Greenland melt days.” Last year Greenland was surrounded by warm water, which led to a record number of melt days. You won’t be seeing that map this year, because … Continue reading →