Author Archives: Tony Heller

Report: Climate change worsens Western water woes By John Flesher (Associated Press) – April 28, 2011 Climate change is likely to diminish already scarce water supplies in the Western United States, exacerbating problems for millions of water users in the … Continue reading →

Despite the fact that they are releasing the most water they have in many years, Lake Powell is now gaining more than 12″ per day, with most of the snowpack still in place in the mountains. http://lakepowell.water-data.com/

There are a dozen offshore oil platforms visible from Santa Barbara now. This is what Santa Barbara looked like in 1969.  

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Fort Collins was hit by an intense hail storm on Wednesday night. Don Day of DayWeather in Cheyenne, Wyo., said Wednesday night’s storms were so intense because of cool atmospheric conditions and an upslope effect, possibly producing up to 3 … Continue reading →

EXTENDED RANGE FORECAST OF ATLANTIC SEASONAL HURRICANE ACTIVITY AND LANDFALL STRIKE PROBABILITY FOR 2011 We continue to foresee well above-average activity for the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season.  We are predicting the same levels of activity that were forecast in early … Continue reading →

It has now been 1000 days since any hurricane hit the US, the longest spell since before the Civil War.  

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.anomaly.arctic.png Arctic ice area declined from 1988 to about 2006, and since then has been flat, corresponding to the shift in the PDO. The amount of multi-year ice reported by NSIDC shows a similar pattern. http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2011/040511.html The death spiral seems … Continue reading →

Loss of beaches worldwide is certainly not the worst of the impacts humans will face from unrestricted greenhouse gas emissions (see “JPL bombshell: Polar ice sheet mass loss is speeding up, on pace for 1 foot sea level rise by … Continue reading →