Nasal Warming is Inevitable
Zippy, back on the global warming beat today, asks what I think is the central question: Will major climate change affect the temperature of my neighborhood? Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, Zippy is posing the question to what appears to be an oversized Dachsund wearing some sort of a chef’s [...]
Survivor: Hurricane Island
Years ago Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert were on Letterman, and Dave was complaining about the problem posed for movie audiences when one of them gave a movie a thumbs up and the other a thumbs down. Dave came up with a brilliant solution: he had them shoot basketball free throws for it. As many [...]
Hurricane Me Deemed “Spooky”
Hurricane John has developed something called a “pinhole eye,” which Chris Mooney declares “spooky“. I don’t know from pinhole cameras, but apparently this is a big deal, according to Chris: The same thing happened when Hurricane Wilma put on a record burst of intensification last year, building up from a tropical storm into a Category [...]
In Which I Finally Get My Own Hurricane
A helpful colleague points out hurricane John, which is strengthening as it runs up Mexico’s west coast. Happily for the folks living in Baja, most of the models show John living out its life over water. Of course it would be wrong of me to hope that John follows the GFDL model track up into [...]
Water in the Desert
Courtesy Avelino Maestas: Here’s the thing to notice: a bright sunny day, a creek that apparently is normally dry (else the plants alongside would be different), yet look at the muddy chocolate milk thing going on. Years ago, I was hanging out on a hillside in the backcountry of the Grand Canyon with a group [...]
Saving the Minnow
Let’s all pitch in and help Dave achieve his dream of owning the original S.S. Minnow. (And Dave – I’ve already got a goofy hat. Hint hint.)
Drought in the Amazon May Not Be Over
Jim Giles has a story in last week’s Nature (sub. req.) pointing to some preliminary work linking warm Atlantic temperatures to last year’s devastating Amazon drought: The drought first caught scientists’ interest because its cause was unusual. Dry spells in the Amazon usually occur in El Niño years, when warm water off the Pacific coast [...]
Drought’s Over!
The latest drought monitor, out this morning, pretty much wipes out drought conditions completely across much of New Mexico: In New Mexico, D1 and D0 conditions were reduced over much of the state. A large area free of drought designation exists in central New Mexico and a new drought-free area was introduced in northeast New [...]
Polling Data
An old evolution/ID/politics/craziness story of mine pops up on Panda’s Thumb.
Elephant Butte After the Rains
Summer rains usually don’t do much good at Elephant Butte, New Mexico’s major storage reservoir. (I touched on this a bit last week in my on line Journal chat.) But this summer’s been extraordinary. So how’s the Butte doing? One of my water geek contacts sent me this link, to daily numbers from the Bureau [...]
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