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 […]
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Carbon Damage Tax
Here’s a novel idea that popped into my brain in association with the catastrophes called Harvey, Irma, and Maria. 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]