Category Archives: Weather/Climate

Global warming? Not here.

Posted on November 10, 2009 | Comments Off on Global warming? Not here.

"For the nation as a whole, it was the third coolest October on record. The month was marked by an active weather pattern that reinforced unseasonably cold air behind a series of cold fronts. Temperatures were below normal in eight of the nation’s nine climate regions, and of the nine, five were much below normal. Only the Southeast climate region had near normal temperatures for October."

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More Kilimanjaro rubbish

Posted on November 2, 2009 | Comments Off on More Kilimanjaro rubbish

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That’s the trouble with the global warm-mongers. You can shoot down their arguments time and again and they just keep recycling them. Comes now an Ohio State researcher riding Al Gore’s favorite pony in claiming that global warming is doing in the glaciers on the famous African mountain. Only problem is there’s been no global warming for more than a decade.

That’s why the warm-mongers have taken to calling it "climate change." Get it? Anthony Watts shot this one down just last year, with data from a Harvard researcher, among others. Can you say: evapotranspiration impeded by deforestation from intensive farming? Sure you can. Fortunately, Watts is game to explain it once again, and with two new contradicting studies.

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Coldest night of the fall

Posted on October 31, 2009 | Comments Off on Coldest night of the fall

So far, anyhow, sez the LCRA’s Bob Rose. Hope this doesn’t mean another early winter, like last year:

"The National Weather Service has issued an [overnight]  Freeze Warning for Kimble and Sutton Counties [west of Fredericksburg] where the temperature is expected to fall to the upper 20s.  A Frost Advisory has been issued for Mason, San Saba and McCulloch Counties where the temperature will fall to the low to middle 30s." 

Only mid-forties expected at the rancho. But that will be cool enough. Near seventy daytime, cooling for Halloween. The goblins will be wearing coats.

UPDATE: Nov. 18-19: It’s back in the low 40s at the rancho tonight, after dipping into the 30s last night. Result of the latest cold front to pass through. This time of year they are sporadic. Quickly warms back up, though. Please G-d, give us a normal winter for a change, when it doesn’t really stay cold for more than a day or two until January, and then only for about six weeks. Hope, hope.

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Lake Travis drought ending

Posted on October 23, 2009 | Comments Off on Lake Travis drought ending

This week’s rain, particularly storms out in the Hill Country along the Pedernales and Llano rivers, and the subsequent runoff, have raised Lake Travis by more than six feet. The rise is expected to continue today, eventually bringing back about half of the fifty feet lowering by the drought.

That would still leave the lake about twenty feet lower than normal for this time of the year. But one more flash flood out there should be enough to fix that. Then I’ll have to scurry out to the lake and get some pictures to add to the befores I’ve already posted. Because, if things stay true to form, by Christmas we’ll be talking about the flooding on the lake. Heh.

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The rains cometh

Posted on October 21, 2009 | Comments Off on The rains cometh

Steady showers this morning on a forecast wet day and night through tomorrow. Glad to get the rain, as always, but it will push the pool problems diagnosis by the maintenance guys out until Friday morning at the earliest. Although it will be middle of next week before we can get the replacement parts for the impeller, anyhow. If the impeller is the problem, as rare reader JD thinks, and it now looks to us like it is.

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The 2009 Orionid Meteor Shower

Posted on October 20, 2009 | Comments Off on The 2009 Orionid Meteor Shower

The worst thing about meteor showers is the best time to see them often is right before dawn. So, unless you can afford to stay up all night, you need to get up early Wednesday to see the Orionids–a stream of debris from Halley’s Comet falling through the atmosphere. Where to look? Overhead.

The next-to-worst thing about meteor showers is that the skies are often cloudy. So you go back to bed. Then, the astronomers who predict the next one will be the best in a long time are often wrong. They’re predicting the Orionids this year will be the best in a while. Dozens an hour. But, once again, if they’re wrong, you can always go back to bed. And, if they’re not and the skies are clear, enjoy the show.

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Aurora

Posted on October 16, 2009 | Comments Off on Aurora

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Don’t recall where I got this, but it’s in honor of David Nelson, an old OCS classmate in MA, who awoke this morning to thirty-four degrees and heavy snow. As he says: "Good infantry weather!"

Via AlphaInventions.

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