Our maximum temperature of 23 degrees in Boulder yesterday was fifteen degrees colder than the previous record, set in 1945. The temperature was thirty-eight degrees below the long term average, after last year being only fourteen degrees below average.
NCAR Foothills Lab Weather (english, 5-minute)
Over the past 24 hours, the warmest temperature in Boulder was 24F (-4C.) The last time there was a day this late in the spring which didn’t get above freezing here was April 14, 1945, when the high temperature was 27 degrees.
NCAR Foothills Lab Weather (english, 5-minute)
Last October we set the record for earliest autumn day to not get above freezing. We have had more than six months of winter.
More Record Cold In Boulder | Real Climate Science
Last year we also had our coldest October day on record.
Coldest October Day On Record In Boulder | Real Climate Science
And last year we had our coldest March afternoon on record.
Coldest Springtime Afternoon On Record In Boulder | Real Climate Science
The NCAR museum is closed due to virus panic, but if I could go up there today I would see a foot of snow, and all kinds of Kevin Trenberth science explaining why Boulder is overheating.
This is how the University of Colorado explains the record long winters we have been having.
Impacts in Colorado | Environmental Center | University of Colorado Boulder
Fifteen years ago this month, Tim Flannery announced the Australian permanent drought.
“Perth is facing the possibility of a catastrophic failure of the city’s water supply,” says Tim Flannery, director of the South Australian Museum and Australia’s most high profile scientist and ecologist. His next book, to be published in October, will feature the water crises faced by Perth and Sydney.
“I’m personally more worried about Sydney than Perth,” Flannery told me. “Where does Sydney go for more water? At least Perth has a buffer of underground water sources. Sydney doesn’t have any backup. And while Perth is forging ahead with a desalination plant, Sydney doesn’t have any major scheme in place to bolster water. It also has nowhere to put the vast infrastructure of a desalination plant.”
Climate change is working against Sydney. “There’s only two years’ water supply in Warragamba Dam,” says Flannery, “yet Frank Sartor [NSW Minister for Energy and Utilities] is talking about the situation being stable … If the computer models are right then drought conditions will become permanent in eastern Australia.”
Most of NSW is, yet again, experiencing drought with 76 per cent of the state officially drought declared. Drought is the term used, but it is the wrong term. A better term is climate change. Much of western NSW has been strip-mined by hopeless farming practices and when the landscape is changed, the climate changes.
“Water is going to be in short supply across the eastern states,” says Flannery. Pumping water from catchment areas near Sydney is not going to be enough, and will create knock-on effects in those catchments. The water restrictions now in force in Sydney are never going to be lifted, except after a run of freak conditions, just as Warragamba Dam is never again going to be full unless there is a freak period of high rainfall unlikely to be sustained.
Easter Sunday 1913 was one of the worst days on record in the US, with thousands dead in floods and tornadoes. Omaha, Nebraska was largely destroyed by a tornado.
28 Mar 1913, 2 – Brookville Headlight at Newspapers.com
Storms struck from Oklahoma to New York.
24 Mar 1996, 8 – The Vincennes Sun-Commercial at Newspapers.com
Just when I thought Boulder County progressives couldn’t possibly get any crazier or more unethical.
