On the current status of our snowpack: Much of New Mexico is just like the forecasters said we should expect it to be: dry. With La Niña’s cool Pacific waters pushing storms away from us this year, Albuquerque and most points to the south and east have been drier than average since Oct. 1. The …
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Beware the quagga mussel.
Kelsey has some nice thoughts on what it would mean to actually try to buy locally: Globalization seems to favor our desert city sticking to high technology at discount rates, with low land costs and lots of intellectual capital. Farming is mostly done elsewhere already, and the city is supported by the Labs, the Base, …
Official Albuquerque low today: 40. Two days from the record.
La Niña seems to be cranking it up.
This morning’s low temperature at the National Weather Service’s Albuquerque station was 37. As I wrote in this morning’s newspaper, we’re near the record for the latest first freeze of autumn. It’s been warm here, especially the overnight lows.
Japanese Garden, Albuquerque botanical gardens Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. No doubt there’s a rich literature out there about the idea of the “park,” a human-created faux natural setting, so I won’t try to reinvent it here. This is the new Japanese Garden at the city of Albuquerque’s beautiful botanical gardens. It just opened, it’s lovely, …
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A bit late notice, entirely because I’m lame (I’ve known about this for a week), but I’ll be on the radio this afternoon at 2 p.m. in Albuquerque: 1350 a.m., NMSR Science Watch, talking about climate variability, the Atlanta drought and its implications for New Mexico.
Mom and Dad in the Bosque Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Went out to the woods by the river Sunday afternoon with Mom and Dad. The leaves are pretty much at their peak. It was lovely. And I see I wasn’t alone in my blog-flickr-journeying.
Atlanta drought in a New Mexico newspaper: The problems New Mexicans face are different than those of Atlanta. We use groundwater for most of our cities’ drinking water, an option Atlanta does not have. In addition, the arid climate of the West is much more variable than in the South. In response, we have built …