Not really. It takes more than one storm. But I had 0.7 inch in my rain gauge this morning, and check out the snow down in Silver City. Using my new Pagano scale (the daily regression model run by Tom Pagano at the NRCS), the last week’s cool, wet weather has been worth 90,000 acre …
Along the lines of the land use change issues Roger Pielke Sr. has been discussing, an interesting paper today in GRL looking at the differences between turning the Amazon rain forest into pasture, versus turning it into soybeans: Results show that the decrease in precipitation after a soybean extension is significantly higher when compared to …
From the Daily Express, across the rapidly rising pond, but adjacent to the smaller and rapidly shrinking pond, apparently: BRITAIN could be plunged into drought misery within months because of the record hot summer that’s on the way. Experts gave the warning yesterday as sailors, left, made the most of a full Bewl Water reservoir, …
From Robert Clemson’s WaterCrunch, an update on Florida drought: Southwest Florida usually receives 42 inches annually, however, they are missing 13 inches of rain since 2006. The area is now entering a dry season after a year of rainfall so far below normal it ranks as the state’s third-driest year on record. Only four inches …
Global warming could be economic boon for some: The Sierra snowpack could melt earlier and faster than before. Droughts could last longer. We could see more rainy days, or less. Storms could become more powerful. The science related to forecasting how global climate change will affect life’s most basic resource — water, and its supply, …
Dust BowlOriginally uploaded by heinemanfleck. It’s reasonable to think that most of the folks in sub-Saharan Africa didn’t celebrate the release of the latest grim Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report by heading out to the ballpark last night. But that’s what Lissa and I did, the beneficiary of a pair of free tickets to …
Update: The paper is up, and Seager and his colleagues have put up an excellent web page explaining the results. Story’s up over at the work site on Richard Seager’s paper being published on line by Science today: Global warming is turning the Southwest into a permanent Dust Bowl, where the dry conditions of our …
Speaking of southwestern drought (weren’t we just talking about this?), the monthly ENSO update shows more signs of creeping toward La Niña. Hurricanes, droughts, plagues of locusts, as well as some weak but suggestive evidence that the Yankees do better during La Niña years.
Andrew Revkin on the First World-Third World adaptation dichotomy: our robust First World economic engines are both causing climate change and providing us the resources to adapt to the damage it causes. The Third World? Not so much: Michael H. Glantz, an expert on climate hazards at the National Center for Atmospheric Research who has …
The NASA GISTEMP March numbers are out. You can pretty clearly see the drop in temperatures as a result of the collapse of El Niño. They’ve also changed the way they’re calculating the adjustments for time-of-day bias and station history. (The change is explained here.) As you can see in the graph I linked above, …