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Posted on January 26, 2007 in Science/Engineering, Weather/Climate

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Maybe no ice

Posted on January 25, 2007 | Comments Off on Maybe no ice

The anticipated Arctic air express for the eastern two-thirds of the country next week is still on schedule, says meteorologist Bob Rose.

"Long-range solutions continue to show the development of a pattern that will bring very cold air into Texas beginning late next week, continuing into next weekend and possibly longer…"

But, at least, they’re no signs (yet) of any concurrent rain to turn it icey: "Fortunately, the long-range solutions continue to indicate the weather will be at least initially be dry…"

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Another ice storm?

Posted on January 24, 2007 | Comments Off on Another ice storm?

KVET-KASE meteorologist Troy Kimmel has some bad news for those of us who were hoping that the normal, 2-week winter in Central Texas was almost over:

"I am becoming increasingly concerned with projected cross-polar flow developing which is forecast by some of the atmospheric computer models to bring some of the coldest Arctic air seen in recent years over the eastern two thirds of the U. S. (east of the Rockies).. including our area..  by about the end of the month and continuing into February."

It could, he says, run into continuing Pacific storm systems and slather us again with ice. Yuk.

UPDATE  Yipes, even LCRA meteorologist Bob Rose is commenting on this possibility. Lord preserve us from more ice. 

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Global warming and meteorologists

Posted on January 22, 2007 | Comments Off on Global warming and meteorologists

Al Gore and Heidi Cullen, call your office. Meteorologist James Spann puts the kibosh on global whatsis:

"The climate of this planet has been changing since God put the planet here. It will always change, and the warming in the last 10 years is not much difference than the warming we saw in the 1930s and other decades. And, lets not forget we are at the end of the ice age in which ice covered most of North America and Northern Europe."

Great stuff. 

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Irritable weather

Posted on January 20, 2007 | Comments Off on Irritable weather

Speaking of weather (see below) I have to say how tiresome this cloud cover has become. The rain I don’t mind, we need the rain, but not seeing the sun, now, for going on what seems like a month but is only 10 days today, has become a drag. Scott Chaffin (The Fat Guy) says it’s making him bloody-minded. I’m just irritable. Bob Rose, chief meteorologist for the Lower Colorado River Authority, says we’ll see some sun tomorrow, before another front pushes through. Maybe’ll be enough to last me a while.

UPDATE  The sun! The sun! Awoke this morning to the golden glow behind the blinds. Blue sky. I feel better already. 

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Global warming battle

Posted on January 20, 2007 | Comments Off on Global warming battle

Speaking of weather forecasting, In From The Cold has a well-researched post on the global warming to-do sparked by the Weather Channel’s Heidi Cullen. I won’t call her Dr. Cullen, because she’s not a physician, and my journalism training makes me balk at giving apparent physician status to a doctorate in anything else. As for the issue at hand–Cullen’s endorsement of global warming as human-made and her cheeky call for meteorologists who don’t get in line with her to be decertified by the American Meteorological Society–I have yet to meet a broadcast, or for that matter National Weather Service, meteorologist who believes global warming is a human product. That’s not to say that it isn’t, although there’re good arguments that it isn’t. Just that I–and apparently most of them– think the jury is still out. As Alan Sullivan, the Seablogger, has said: the founder of the Weather Channel, John Coleman, must be spinning in his grave.

UPDATE  Well, Coleman might be spinning in his grave, if he was dead. But he seems to be still doing the weather at KUSI-TV in San Diego.  

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Still frozen

Posted on January 17, 2007 | Comments Off on Still frozen

The power is still holding at the rancho, as the temperature nudges above freezing and the icicles hanging from the eaves and trees slowly begin to melt and drip steadily. We’re lucky, I know. Some have it much worse:

"At the First Baptist Church in McAlester, Okla., where most of the city’s 18,000 residents have lacked power for four days, residents huddled under blankets and in front of space heaters."

Chris White, a friend who lives way east of here, near Washington-on-the-Brazos, still is bird watching a big egret down at his frozen pond, but wondering where the roadrunner and the deer have gotten to. About the only movement around the rancho are kids using pieces of cardboard to slide down the nearby hill, and Mr. Boy using his baseball bat to knock ice off the naked branches of the Red Bud in the backyard. Meanwhile, meteorologist Bob Rose expects some melting today will refreeze tonight before a slow warmup begins Thursday and Friday.

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