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Thursday will be the second October 10th in a row with record cold here in Boulder, Colorado. We have about five inches of snow in the forecast. It will also be a record for earliest day to not get above … Continue reading →

“We are not a cult”

Texas had their longest heatwave at Encinal in 1921, with 157 consecutive days above 90F from May 8 to October 11, 1921. The NOAA USHCN thermometer data for Texas shows 1921 as the hottest year, with Texas cooling since 1895. … Continue reading →

Winter is coming early again this year.  We are expecting five inches of snow here in Boulder on Thursday. Montana had record snow last week. This is the eighth year in a row with above average October snow cover in … Continue reading →

This script gives easy access to USHCN monthly raw, TOBS and Final adjusted temperatures. Getting the data: wget ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2.5/ushcn.tavg.latest.FLs.52j.tar.gz wget ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2.5/ushcn.tavg.latest.tob.tar.gz wget ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2.5/ushcn.tavg.latest.raw.tar.gz tar xzvf ushcn.tavg.latest.FLs.52j.tar.gz tar xzvf ushcn.tavg.latest.tob.tar.gz tar xzvf ushcn.tavg.latest.raw.tar.gz wget ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2.5/ushcn.tmax.latest.FLs.52j.tar.gz wget ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2.5/ushcn.tmax.latest.tob.tar.gz wget ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2.5/ushcn.tmax.latest.raw.tar.gz wget http://cdiac.ornl.gov/ftp/ushcn_daily/ushcn-stations.txt … Continue reading →

Micheal Mann and Snopes both did hit pieces on me this week. I must be making them nervous. Here is the Snopes article. Since 2014, climate-change deniers have squeezed millions of views, Facebook shares, and Twitter retweets by retelling a story alleging the … Continue reading →