The worst hurricanes in the Atlantic Basin, so far, have made catastrophic landfalls. Two of them, Irma and Maria, took interesting paths from a research standpoint, that I’ll point out. In the original 1960s Star Trek there was an episode involving a “doomsday” automated planet killer machine that Captain Kirk figured out how to stop […]
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Forecasting a Warm? Fall 2017
I’m going to quote myself from late spring when I attempted to make a summer forecast: “Forecasting for a season is perhaps the most difficult, and as the public knows, most unreliable product put out by any group be it those, for example, from NOAA or people putting together The Old Farmers Almanac. If farmers, power companies, construction companies, those […]
Carbon Damage Tax
Here’s a novel idea that popped into my brain this afternoon in association with the catastrophe called Harvey. Yeah, I know that this won’t pass Congress anytime soon, so this proposal is just food for fodder and debate. Why not put a damage tax on all oil and coal companies operating in the United States? […]
The Global Thermostat
Remember the story of the Three Bears in which after tasting two bowls of porridge, one too hot and one too cold, Goldilocks gulped down a third that was just right? Astronomers these days often refer to the “Goldilocks Zone” in which life as we know it can exist not only in this solar system […]
June 2017 Record Temperature Count Summary
Ok. That “streak” of consecutive months of more daily record highs than daily record lows for the U.S. is now up to 31 in the National Center for Environmental Information is up to 31. So what other trends in the June 2017 numbers can we spot? When we start breaking down the numbers that trend […]
Summer 2017 Heat Diary… Log 5… June 24-30
Friday June 30th… Dear diary. It is the end of June so one third of meteorological summer is in the rear view mirror. Time flies! At the end of June it is time to take stock on record statistics with climate change ramifications. I’ll put out a separate post in early July as a June 2017 climate summary […]
May 2017 Most Extreme U.S. Temperatures
With summer heat in full swing I have been blogging away on other issues, but I have not forgotten about our monthly extreme temperature record awards.😊 In previous posts on this site and on Weather Underground I introduced the weather and climate world to the concept of an Extreme Temperature Index. Once more lets apply […]
Streak Hits 30…A Word About Paris
So, President Trump dumped the Paris Climate Accords yesterday. One of the biggest excuses I hear from American conservative circles is that “It’s all a hoax just to further the liberal agenda.” So is the temperature and specifically record data that I and others have been presenting all made up? For those of us who […]
Building a Better Method to Forecast Dangerous Heat
Up to this point with my posts I have been relaying general information in association with my record temperature research trends using NCEI data. In this post I will attempt to begin to put that research to the test aiding climate scientist’s and meteorologist’s quests for warning the general public of the chances for dangerous […]
Planetary Record Temperature Trends for 2017
I have been using the following NCEI site to do my U.S. record statistics for years. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datatools/records Recently I have used the site to investigate record temperature trends in other countries such as Canada and Russia. Not many people know that the site keeps tallies of all records coming in from the entire planet. There […]