Author Archives: Tony Heller

The fact remains that there is 4 percent more water vapor–and associated additional moist energy–available both to power individual storms and to produce intense rainfall from them. Climate change is present in every single meteorological event, in that these events … Continue reading →

This will add to the record snowpack in the Colorado River watershed. http://graphs.water-data.com/ucsnowpack/

Global Warming Will Bring Violent Storms And Tornadoes, NASA Predicts ScienceDaily (Aug. 31, 2007) — NASA scientists have developed a new climate model that indicates that the most violent severe storms and tornadoes may become more common as Earth’s climate … Continue reading →

Obama : “Vancouver which supposed to be getting snow during the Olympics, suddenly is at 55 degrees and Dallas suddenly is getting seven inches of snow.” http://mediamattersaction.org/blog/201002190005 This year it is hot in Texas and cold in Vancouver, and they … Continue reading →

Update: In a pants-on-fire moment, the White House press office today denied anyone there had issued threats to remove Carla Marinucci and possibly other Hearst reporters from the press pool covering the President in the Bay Area. Chronicle editor Ward … Continue reading →

It’s unknown how long the underweight cub was by herself without food, or what actually happened to her mother and sibling. One thing that’s unlikely is that a subsistence hunter from the nearest community — the Inupiat Eskimo village of … Continue reading →

The poster child for active tornado seasons was the Superoutbreak of 1974, which was during globally cool conditions. This year, we are seeing much cooler than normal conditions through the corn belt, even delaying the planting schedule. Cool La Nina … Continue reading →

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Hansen says that 2010 was the hottest year ever. The tornado count was just below the mean. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2010_United_States_tornado_count_graph.png Temperatures have plummeted since last spring, and we are having a very active tornado season. Romm adds 2+2 and comes up with … Continue reading →

Higher temperatures in the mid-troposphere would make make the atmosphere more stable and produce fewer severe storms. Similarly, polar amplification would reduce temperature differences between the equator and the poles, once again reducing the numbers of severe storms. The reason … Continue reading →