Category Archives: Weather/Climate

Vanities

Posted on June 29, 2009 | Comments Off on Vanities

Mr. Boy went off to four weeks of day camp at the JCC this morning. He rebuffed Mrs. Charm’s offer to help him find his group at the flag raising. Being a rising fourth grader he’s too big for nanny stuff. He was looking forward to a hot game of Ga-ga, an Israeli form of dodge ball. With a forecast high of 102, it definitely will be hot.

Meanwhile, I was honored to have two posts linked in the new Haveil Havalim, a carnival of Jewish blog posts founded way back when by Soccer Dad. It is, appropriately, the Hot and Humid Edition. Haveil Havalim means Vanity of Vanities, a reference to King Solomon’s discovery that materialism for its own sake is a dead end. Or something like that.

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Posted in Israel, Mr. Boy, Mrs. Charm, Weather/Climate

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Rain ahead…

Posted on June 28, 2009 | Comments Off on Rain ahead…

Well, a reasonable chance for some tomorrow night, anyhow, which will feel good after today’s hundred degree heat (it’s 100 in the city at the moment). But the real chances, according to the federal Climate Prediction Center begin in October and last through April of next year. Thanks to the anticipated return of El Nino, they’re forecasting precip to be above normal for that period. After two years of dry, that would be sweet.

Via KVUE’s Mark Murray.

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Posted in Rancho Roly Poly, Texana, Weather/Climate

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Global warming, or politics?

Posted on June 28, 2009 | Comments Off on Global warming, or politics?

Surprise, surprise. Barry’s EPA hasn’t done its homework:

"EPA has not done its own evaluation of the global warming theory. Rather, it has relied on analyses by others, mostly the U.N.’s IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report. That report, however, was a political document, not a scientific one."

EPA has, however, quashed an in-house rebuttal of the Dictator’s Club. Can’t have dissension, oh no. That wouldn’t be, uh, scientific.

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Posted in Obamalot, Science/Engineering, Weather/Climate

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Hairnet and giveaway

Posted on June 27, 2009 | Comments Off on Hairnet and giveaway

"As the U.S. House of Representatives [narrowly passed] a climate-change bill, the Australian Parliament is preparing to kill its own country’s carbon-emissions scheme. Why? A growing number of Australian politicians, scientists and citizens once again doubt the science of human-caused global warming."

Well jolly good for them. Finally some common sense. Not that it will have any influence on our political crooks. Now to see whether the Senate has more honesty. I suspect not. Some think the American electorate will not remember who done this deed when their electricity bills double and the economy craters. I think they will, and the Dems will pay big time.

Hairnet and giveaway is the translation of the bill’s cap and trade title by Steve Hayward at No Left Turns who suspects the last-minute bill has so many loopholes for favored (read big contributor) outfits that it will have no measureable effect on "the risks of global warming." But, come on, we can’t change the climate. How smart do you have to be to figure that out?

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Heat emergencies

Posted on June 24, 2009 | Comments Off on Heat emergencies

"Since June 12, Austin-Travis County EMS paramedics have responded to 37 heat emergencies. Included in the elevated response data for heat emergencies [were] construction workers, patients with pre-existing conditions including pregnancy, also several very young patients."

Meanwhile, the forecast is for more of the same through the July 4 weekend. And probably thereafter.

UPDATE:  Thursday’s highs at Camp Mabry and the airport were records: 106 at Mabry, 107 at ABIA. The LCRA’s Bob Rose says those were the second hottest June days in recorded Austin history, which I might add only goes back to the 1840s or so.

The warmists will say this is Global Warming. That’s what  they say when it’s freezing, too. And, probably, when there’s a big sale on at Fry’s. Nevertheless, with the ground thoroughly heated after weeks of this, we can expect plenty more records ahead.

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Posted in Scribbles, Texana, Weather/Climate

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The heat is on

Posted on June 19, 2009 | Comments Off on The heat is on

Six days (through Thursday) of triple-digit highs (was only 97 today) with, fortunately, some relief in sight, according to Bob Rose:

A few coastal showers will be possible the latter part of next week, but the majority of the region looks to stay dry.  If this pattern develops as currently forecast, we should break out of our streak of 100-degree temperatures the latter part of next week.

That would be nice. Sunday morning is Summer Solstice, after all. Cooler days are coming…

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Posted in Texana, Weather/Climate

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AF 447’s breakup

Posted on June 11, 2009 | Comments Off on AF 447’s breakup

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This photoshopped image, by a commenter on this pilot’s forum, shows where the jet’s recovered vertical stabilizer apparently tore off–though whether in mid-air or on impact with the ocean is unknown. Meanwhile, previous notions of a superbolt of lightning frying the plane’s electronics apparently have been quashed by this updated meteorological analysis:

"* Lightning — Though in earlier versions of this study I had identified lightning as occurring in this mesoscale convective system, recent evidence from spaceborne and sferic sensors is pointing to the possibility that this system contained no lightning. Soundings do indicate moderate levels of instability, but there are indications in the literature that cumulonimbus clouds in oceanic equatorial regions entrain considerable quantities of drier, cooler air that dampen upward vertical motion in the lower portions of the storm, and in some way this reduces charge separation. In any case it does look fairly likely that we can rule out a lightning strike as being a factor in the A330 crash."

Indicating that turbulence within the storm apparently was the cause of the breakup at altitude unless there was some other factor which only analysis of the debris and/or the voice and data recordings could show.

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Posted in Obituaries, Scribbles, Space, Weather/Climate

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