Real Climate Science

 09/12/2013

Boulder has set a record for its wettest 24-hour period. Ever.

Prior to Wednesday, the single wettest day on record was July 31, 1919, when 4.80 inches of rain were recorded, according to Bob Henson, a science writer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Henson said that the latest official readings for Boulder show that from 6 p.m. Wednesday to 9:15 a.m. today, 7.21 inches of rain have fallen in Boulder, with amounts likely varying from a bit lower in northeast areas of the city to higher than that to the southwest.

Additionally, the last three days of rain are more than Boulder has experienced in any month on record.

Since the rain kicked in late Monday afternoon, Boulder has recorded 9.61 inches of rain, topping the 9.59 inches recorded in the entire month of May 1995.

Boulder registers wettest 24-hour period, and month, on record – Boulder Daily Camera

Earlier this year, global warming and the permanent drought brought Boulder record cold and its snowiest month on record.

April 29, 2013

April has been a freakishly cold month across much of the northern USA, bringing misery to millions of sun-starved and winter-weary residents from the Rockies to the Midwest.

Record cold and snow has been reported in dozens of cities, with the worst of the chill in the Rockies, upper Midwest and northern Plains. Several baseball games have been snowed out in both Denver and Minneapolis.

Cities such as Rapid City, S.D.; Duluth, Minn.; and Boulder, Colo., have all endured their snowiest month ever recorded. (In all three locations, weather records go back more than 100 years.) In fact, more than 1,100 snowfall records and 3,400 cold records have been set across the nation so far in April, according to the National Climatic Data Center.

Awful April: Spring hard to find across northern USA

The Colorado government says we are having a severe drought!

Colorado’s Drought Response and Mitigation Planning

This would be the same Colorado state government who thought that infringing on the Bill of Rights was a good idea.

The good news is that the gate is closed on the bike trail, to keep cyclists from trying to ride under the bridge.

Many Manhattans of new ice forming in open water between the older floes, in the Arctic right now.

EOSDIS Worldview (Alpha)

NCDC has released this completely fake graph, which shows a rapid warming in US August temperature.

Climate at a Glance | Time Series

Their thermometer data doesn’t look anything like that though.

Index of /pub/data/ghcn/daily/hcn/

The animation below alternates between their measured and published temperatures.

The next graph shows their alterations to August temperature. They have massively cooled the past and are starting to warm the present.

Published NOAA US temperature trends have nothing to do with scientific or historical reality, and everything to do with providing political support for politicians who want the public to believe that CO2 is ruining the climate.

This is what the original US Weather Bureau map for August 1936 looked like, before the modern experts chopped 1.7ºF off the August 1936 temperature. Almost the entire US was blistering hot that month.

http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/064/mwr-064-08-c1.pdf

The CIA has begun delivering weapons to rebels in Syria, ending months of delay in lethal aid that had been promised by the Obama administration, according to U.S. officials and Syrian figures. The shipments began streaming into the country over the past two weeks, along with separate deliveries by the State Department of vehicles and other gear — a flow of material that marks a major escalation of the U.S. role in Syria’s civil war.

CIA begins weapons delivery to Syrian rebels – The Washington Post

How would the US react if a foreign country was delivering weapons to al Qaeda in the US?

A woman killed by a suspected drunken driver heading the wrong way on Interstate 25 has been identified as Jennifer Friede, a longtime Denver-area marijuana activist.

The Denver medical examiner’s office said Friede, 34, of Broomfield, was a passenger in a vehicle headed northbound in the high-occupancy vehicle lane near Park Avenue West early Saturday when it was struck by a vehicle traveling south.

Denver police arrested the driver of the wrong-way car, Rebecca Maez, 27, on suspicion of DUI and vehicular homicide. Friede’s boyfriend, Jeremy DePinto, was driving the car and also suffered injuries. The couple were headed home from a concert about 1 a.m.

Victim in DUI crash was Denver marijuana activist Jennifer Friede – Longmont Times-Call

Before moving to Fort Collins, we lived in Longmont, Colorado for 11 years (with a few intermittent stints in California.) Our house was one block from Left Hand Creek, and our youngest child was born there.

Longmont police officers went door-to-door in parts of Southmoor Park near Left Hand Creek this morning, telling residents to be prepared to evacuate.

Longmont tells Southmoor Park residents: Be ready to evacuate – Longmont Times-Call

We moved in right after the 1995 flood, but that one wasn’t as bad as the current flood. This is the park across the street

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Thursday said “anarchists” have taken over Congress.  Reid (D-Nev.) said Tea Party Republicans are preventing progress on an energy efficiency bill by offering amendments on ObamaCare and other unrelated issues.

“People who don’t believe in (big corrupt bankrupt) government — and that’s what the Tea Party is all about — are winning, and that’s a shame.”

On Wednesday, Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) said he would prevent votes on lawmakers’ amendments to the energy bill until he’s assured he’ll get a vote on his amendment, which would require some congressional and executive branch staff to enroll in the ObamaCare health exchanges.  “

It’s defund ObamaCare, and I guess as the fiscal year comes to and end that’s what it’s all about,” Reid said.

Reid: ‘Anarchists have taken over’ – The Hill’s Floor Action

The rowers have finally updated their trip tracker, after a long hiatus.