November ended very dry, putting Austin in the exceptional drought category, i.e. the worst possible. We’re surrounded by an extreme drought area (the red on the map) with no end in sight. Our driest year since 1956. Odd combination: no rain and an early winter of chilly days andfrigid nights. Yech.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Rancho Roly Poly, Texana, Weather/Climate
Tagged 2008 drought, Austin, Central Texas, USDA Drought Monitor
Not good, says Lower Colorado River Authority meteorologist Bob Rose, and not likely to get better soon:
"Year to date rainfall at Austin-Camp Mabry through Tuesday total[ed] only 15.61 inches, over 15 inches below normal. As of today, 2008 is the 4th driest year on record, dating back to 1856 and is the driest year since 1956! This is a very intense drought, rivaling some of the terrible drought years of the 1950s. And long-range forecasts are not very encouraging for rain going into early 2009."
It is worth pointing out, for Global Warmists and other hysterics, that 1856, when reliable weather records began being kept in the central city, was only one hundred fifty-two years ago. A lot of droughts certainly occurred before then, and some of them undoubtedly were worse than this one.
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Posted in Texana, Weather/Climate
Tagged Austin 2008 drought
Al Gore, call your office. Seems those allegedly "indisputable" climate forecast models lack a reliable estimate of the soil’s significant (but very slow) contribution to atmospheric carbon dioxide. Meaning global warming predictions are overestimated.
Via Hot Air.
MORE GLOBAL WARMING DEBUNKING: From, of all places, the U.S. Senate.
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Posted in Obamalot, Science/Engineering, Scribbles, Weather/Climate
Tagged global warmism
What a laugher. No science is beyond dispute. Dispute is what science does. Only a pol would say something so stupid.
Via the Seablogger.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, Science/Engineering, Weather/Climate
Tagged global warmism, Obama
Nevermind Barry’s cult of personality, it’s the global warmists we have to fear. The ones who want to remake our economy to resolve their notion of eco-pocolypse. Though Barry apparently will step up offshore drilling, he is also likely to back the EPA’s impending enforcement of carbon dioxide reductions (better hold your breath), and maybe buy up Detroit for the UAW to make teenie, weenie greenie cars. (Just so long as the Dems don’t require us to buy them.)
Meanwhile the Seablogger, freshly home from a blogged cruise to the Virgin Islands, sees perfidy behind the recent alleged NASA "blunder" in announcing October as the warmest month ever–when, in fact, it was one of the coolest. Anything to promote the Gorebot cult and Nancy Pelosi’s green "recovery," don’t you know. Big Media may get its long-touted depression yet if Barry and his party deepen the recession. At least we’d have the pleasure of seeing him voted out after one term. Or is he, perhaps, smarter than that? We’re going to find out.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, Science/Engineering, Weather/Climate
Tagged global warmists, green recovery, warmest October ever
Another chill night at the rancho, which brought out a duet between a Hoot Owl and a Screech Owl, high in the maples of the upper forty a while ago. The cry of the hooty sounds like his name. The cry of the Screech is more bizarre–rather like the repeated whinney of a horse.
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Tagged Screech Owl cry
Sunday morning’s low was only about forty at the rancho, but the airport recorded two degrees below freezing. After a blistering summer, I was looking forward to a mild fall. Instead… Was only thirty-one in the back forty by first light today. Brrrr. All part of what the LCRA’s Bob Rose says looks like an early winter. The good part is his forecast of normal fall rain, though we haven’t seen it yet.
ONE GOOD THING: LCRA has updated their Hydromet Web site to make the maps easier to read.
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Posted in Rancho Roly Poly, Texana, Weather/Climate
Tagged LCRA Bob Rose
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