C’s Palindrome
Ave Marie Avenue Originally uploaded by c_foster. Not exactly a palindrome, but in spirit, very much so.
Archive of posts filed under the New Mexico category.
More Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
My first serious exposure to Roger Pielke Jr.’s work was at an American Meteorological Society meeting in Albuquerque in 2001. He gave a talk laying out the basic thrust of his hurricane vulnerability argument: that societal changes (essentially building stuff on the beach) are the dominant variable in the societal hurricane risk equation. It’s an …
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
On paleoclimate in caves: In most parts of the world, New Mexico included, there have only been rain gauges and thermometers to record the weather for a little more than a century. To figure out what happened before, scientists are exploiting a growing arsenal of tricks, from layers of ice in Antarctica to corals that …
Fun With Science
For the last six months or so, Journal photographer Marla Brose and I have been hanging out with University of New Mexico grad student Mel Strong, watching him do science: To the lay outsider, science can look like an edifice of fixed knowledge— the facts in textbooks. The day-to-day business of science is different, a …
Famous Rock in New Mexico
Famous Rock in New MexicoOriginally uploaded by scithdekaffa. “The land here is crappy, it is hot and nothing grows. ” – scithdekaffa (hat tip Chantal)
Northern Flicker
Our most spectacular neighborhood bird, the Northern Flicker, paid a visit to the backyard pond this morning. The pond is really a stock tank whose purpose, in addition to the entertainment provided by its undirected ecosystem, is to serve as a watering hole for neighborhood birds. Last weekend, Lissa banged through the ice and within …
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
I tried my hardest, but despite my best efforts I just can’t avoid writing about the IPCC. I’ve gotta tell folks in New Mexico something. Hey, it could be worse. At least we don’t really see hurricanes, what with not having any oceans nearby. Much more tomorrow.
Overnight Storm
An inch of snow when I measured this morning at my house – 0.14 inches of precip when melted. 0.12 at the airport. That’s a total of 0.18 total at the airport this month, as compared to an average of 0.5. It’s been wetter at my house – 0.49 inches. But it shows that a …
Daybook
weather: Looks like we’re on the El Niño one-storm-a-week track here, with another wet patch headed for New Mexico through the weekend. This’ll be the fourth in a row. book1: Andrew Revkin’s The North Pole Was Here. Don’t be fooled by the whole “children’s book” thing. It’s a ripping good read, and Revkin has clearly …
Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere
Charlie Liles at the National Weather Service lays out the factors (sub. or ad req.) that made our winter storm past so special: