Story 12. A Stern Lecture Upon returning back to his home lair in Hawaii Thermo was greeted by Dr. Carson who had not seen him in several years. Thermo told all of his adventurous tails to his father about his friends […]
Forecasting a Hot? Summer
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 doing a lot of outdoor work, and even health professionals had a good heads up on weather […]
From Russia With Records (Part 2)
Between the time I posted part one of my findings on Russia record trends and now, bombshell after bombshell of scandalous news in association with the Trump administration has been printed in every major newspaper. I had to laugh out loud seeing what Time Magazine put on their cover this week. So, it is apropeaux, with a wink and a nod, that we should continue to look at Russian record temperature […]
World of Thermo… Story 11…Outbreak
Story 11. Outbreak About a year after Thermo’s encounter with snow and ice beings Thermo was roaming around over the Ohio Valley in the eastern U.S. with his pals Puffy and Fluffy. It was a beautiful day in the spring of 1974. Way up near where the Wispy’s of this world reside Thermo noticed […]
World of Thermo… Story 10…Arrhenius
Not every human was blind to the effects of carbon dioxide, however. A Swedish scientist and icon in the climate science world named Savant August Arrhenius was doing some scientific work on physics of this planet as well as the universe. He became interested in the chemical composition of the atmosphere. Arrhenius developed a theory […]
World of Thermo Story 9… Act One for Carbo
During the late 19th century Carbo was having a great time with his fellow molecules roaming the planet and making sure that more of his kind were spilling into the atmosphere due to coal mines and industrialization. Gradually Carbo got greedier. Carbo knew that crude oil, also the remnants of fossils, could be released and […]
From Russia With Records (Part One)
After cataloging counts of daily records in the National Center for Environmental Information’s database for Canada, I began looking to see what country should be next on my list to research. For reference, here is what I came up with for Canada: http://www.guyonclimate.com/2017/04/28/canadian-record-trends/ I am getting all of my data from: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datatools/records In order to get […]
April 2017 Most Extreme U.S. Temperatures
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. Lets apply the current index algorithm to reports from April 2017 in the National Center for Environmental Information’s surface records site and see what the most extreme event and location was. […]
World of Thermo….. Story 8……..Carbo Is Released
Story 8. Carbo Is Released Deep within a large cave Carbo had been sleeping peacefully for millions of years. At one time he had been part of a large dinosaur and had many fellow friends within that beast. Those friends, however, just resembled his looks and had no consciousness. When the Triceratops passed away of […]
April 2017 Was Warm…. No Fooling…. Streak at 29
In my last piece I statistically broke down how warm the United States had gotten over the last five years in association with “the streak”. The streak is defined as the record number of consecutive months that daily record highs have outnumbered daily record lows from the National Center for Environmental Information database, which has now reached […]