Category Archives: Weather/Climate

Peach cropper

Posted on May 4, 2009 | Comments Off on Peach cropper

It’s always hard to tell with the Hill Country Fruit Council’s guide to finding peaches, whether the "closed for season" remarks for some growers are for this year or refer to last year and just haven’t been updated yet. But the April 7 freeze appears to have zapped more than a few of them, including the Marburger Orchard in Fredericksburg. They say "No Peaches" straight out on their site. So I expect we will see a slimmer supply at the H.E.B. than usual this year. Alas.

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Polar ice refuses to melt

Posted on April 30, 2009 | Comments Off on Polar ice refuses to melt

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The next time you hear Democrats assert that they must stop the use of coal to make electricity because the North Pole is melting from warming sea water, remember this planned assessment of a month ago, and its finding this week. The north polar ice is a hundred percent thicker than expected. Instead of the two meters anticipated, it is four meters thick. Twelve feet, y’all. What warming sea water?

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A simple cure for global warming

Posted on April 24, 2009 | 6 comments

Even if you don’t believe the globe is warming, painting roofs and roads white, or some other light color, would sure cut air-conditioning bills and go far in eliminating the heat-island effect. Not that I want the rancho’s roof white. But I don’t have to worry. Simple solutions never appeal to big government. They don’t produce new jobs for the bureaucracy or more tax money for pet projects. Still… Painting roofs and roads white. What a concept.

Via Instapundit.

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Texas wildfires

Posted on April 11, 2009 | Comments Off on Texas wildfires

We thought the smoke in the air yesterday was the usual spring influx from the Chiapan farmers of southern Mexico burning the scrub off their fields to prepare for planting.

But it was actually coming from the northwest, above Fort Worth, where the drought-induced wildfires have burned-out a couple of small towns. Since some one hundred ninety-nine counties are affected so far, the governor has called for help from the national guard and FEMA. More wildfires appear to be burning around the Fort Hood area which is closer to the rancho but still a comfortable distance. Forecast rain tonight and tomorrow will help, if it shows up.

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Don’t touch that light switch

Posted on March 28, 2009 | Comments Off on Don’t touch that light switch

The climate change sheeple want everybody to swtich off their lights for an hour at 8:30 p.m. tonight in protest. A far better idea would be to leave them on and, instead, watch this video.

Via Instapundit.

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The Fargo, ND flood 2009

Posted on March 27, 2009 | Comments Off on The Fargo, ND flood 2009

This is shaping up to be a major disaster for thousands of people. The Seablogger, having lived in the area and his mother still living there, has quite a bit to say about it–as well as correcting some of Big Media’s usual laziness. You’d think they could get and read some topo maps. But noooo… Google it, you goofuses.

UPDATE:  The river seems, mercifully, to have crested.

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Missing the hail, getting the rain

Posted on March 26, 2009 | Comments Off on Missing the hail, getting the rain

We got lucky in yesterday afternoon’s thunderstorm. We got at least half an inch that will further green up the lawn and trees at the rancho–and sprout some more yellow and pink wildflowers in the bar ditches, among the sparse bluebonnets. Mr. B. and I read right through it. Missed the hail entirely, said to be of the three-inch variety nearby, smashing vehicle windows at one car dealership. Everything was still wet from overnight rains when Mrs. Charm and I took our morning walk thirty minutes ago. Some big storms–green, yellow and red on the weather service radar–are pounding Uvalde at this hour. But they’re headed for San Antonio, not Austin.

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