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Ana and Bill

Posted on August 16, 2009 | Comments Off on Ana and Bill

Where to, oh storms? To Texas, hence, to shed a little rain upon our cracking, dusty drouth? As the Seablogger notes, none can say:

"We cannot model and hope for more than partial accuracy ten days out, yet politicians profess to be panicked about models of the climate a century hence. Some of them are simply grabbing for money and regulatory power. Many others believe — like the idiot Senator from Michigan, Debbie Stabenow, who thinks she can feel global warming when she flies."

So, unlike the idiot senator and her other credulous colleagues, we’ll just have to wait and see.

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The Purple Sage does it again

Posted on August 12, 2009 | Comments Off on The Purple Sage does it again

It’s only been a week since the area’s Purple Sage bushes began blooming, forecasting a rain event within a week to ten days. Bingo. The rain cameth today. The ol’ Barometer Bush is a winner. Again. Plant a few and you won’t need the Weather Channel.

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Rain and cool

Posted on August 12, 2009 | Comments Off on Rain and cool

Got home from the condo at Port A couple of hours ago. Met with heavy rain approaching the city from the south on 183, and a few showers within since then. Forecast to continue until nine p.m. or so. Cooled things off quite a bit. It’s eighty degrees at the moment. Forecast is back to a hundred and one tomorrow, tho.

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Off to the beach

Posted on August 8, 2009 | Comments Off on Off to the beach

Off to Port Aransas today through Wednesday, where the National Weather Service forecasts highs in the eighties and twenty percent chance of showers through the period. Sure hope they’re right.

What a nice break it would be from the triple digits here. On the other hand, the humidity is above ninety percent which will push the heat index above one hundred. Port A cam aimed at part of the beach will tell the tale.

UPDATE:  The humidity was high, but it felt cool nevertheless, especially at night. Didn’t rain once. We got the rain coming home on the 12th, just outside of Austin.

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Buy Miss Mermaid’s book

Posted on August 5, 2009 | Comments Off on Buy Miss Mermaid’s book

MissMermaid, stormcarib.com‘s hurricane correspondent from Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, is laid up in the hospital. Her legion of fans are passing the hat and urging purchases of her book Hurricanes and Hangovers.

For a Booksurge product it’s doing very well in Amazon sales, and their amateur critics speak highly of it. If you ever wondered what life in the islands was like, she tells it. My interest stems from reading stormcarib every summer for the latest in the latest hurricanes. None yet this year.

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The Purple Sage is blooming again

Posted on August 5, 2009 | Comments Off on The Purple Sage is blooming again

"For the past couple of days, I’ve noticed the purple sage bushes are blooming [again] here in Austin.  As I’ve mentioned before, these particular bushes often bloom about a week to ten days before rain develops around the area...They must be sensing something our forecast models are not seeing at the current time. I’ll be very interested to see what develops in the week to ten day forecast."

Yep. Highs have been running several degrees above a hundred lately and seems likely to stay that way.

Via LCRA meteorologist Bob Rose.

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Pap & Tax

Posted on August 1, 2009 | Comments Off on Pap & Tax

While the Dems proceed with their potentially economy-busting climate change taxation scheme, the so-called Cap & Trade, more scientists are fleeing from the global warming fraud behind it. The latest are some members of the American Chemical Society, which bills itself as the world’s largest scientific society. And more on it here.

Via The Seablogger

UPDATE:  Meanwhile, a new Henrik Svensmark paper out today concludes that "a link between the sun, cosmic rays, aerosols and liquid-water clouds appears to exist on a global scale," meaning that an active sun decreases the amount of low-lying clouds which influences the warming of the earth far more than any CO2 increases. The sun’s recent inactivity thus may have influenced the current global cooling, and the northeast’s Year Without A Summer.

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