The clouds were somewhat of a disappointment yesterday, not the stupendous photogenic day CM was expecting.
Maybe CM is total fraud, gets Big Oil funding and should be investigated by Rep. Grijalva as other weather folk are, like the great Prof. and National Academy of Sciences Fellow, Dr. Judy Curry, a friend, and about whom I say on a link to her blog here, and from this blog’s very beginning, “The only link you will need.” I said that because Judy2 is a top scientist, and is eminently fair in this polarized issue.
I am in real trouble! Will remove that link immediately1 before our very own “climate thought enforcer”, Demo Rep. Grijalva, AZ, finds it using a spy bot! No telling how far down the influence chain it will go, maybe all the way down to here, where there is virtually no influence!
Back to clouds…….
Only late in the day did the delicate patterns expected to happen ALL DAY appear, again, with iridescence, always nice to see.
Here is your day for yesterday. Its a pretty interesting movie. Two thumbs up!
Oh, today’s weather?
The media, Bob, and our good NWS, of course, are all over the incoming rain in great detail. In fact, it will take you half a day to read all the warnings on this storm issued by our Tucson NWS.
So why duplicate existing information that might be only slightly different than the prevailing general consensus on the storm amounts, and then maybe be investigated for going against a consensus? No, not worth it. Best to be safe, not say things against The Machine. (OK, maybe overdoing it here.)
In the meantime, the upper low off southern Cal and Baja has fomented an extremely strong band of rain, now lying across SE Cal and the Colorado River Valley where dry locations like Blythe are getting more than an inch over the past 24 h. Same for northern Baja where some places are approaching 2-3 inches, great for them. You can see how the rain is piling up in those locations here. In sum, this is a fabulous storm for northern Mexico and the SW US, whether WE get our 0.915 inches, as foretold here, or not! Rejoice in the joy of others. Looking for an arcus cloud fronting the main rainband, too, that low hanging cloud in a line that tells you a windshift is coming. Still expecting, hoping, for thunder today to add to the wind and rain drama.
Also, the present cloud cover, as the trough ejects toward us, will deepen up and rain will form upwind and around here as that happens, so it won’t JUST be the eastward movement of the existing band. This means you might be surprised by rain if you’re outside hiking and think the band itself is hours away. Expecting rain to be in the area by mid-morning, certainly not later than noon, with the main blast (fronted by something akin to an arcus cloud) later in the day. OK, just checked the U of AZ mod run from 11 PM AST, and that is what it is saying as well! Wow.
Finally, if you care, yesterday’s clouds:
Below, just some pretty patterns observed later in the day. Click to see larger versions.
Whew, the end.
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1Not!!!!!! I thought this was a good read about this deplorable new stage of “climate thought enforcement” now in progress. It was brought to my attention by climate folk hero, friend, and big troublemaker, Mark Albright. Wow, maybe Mark will be investigated, too! Maybe I should excise his name….
2I remember, too, how cute she was when she worked my lab/office at the University of Washington in the mid-1980s, and thought about asking her out, to detract from a serious commentary here. She was a Penn State grad student, not a U of WA employee; still, to ask her out would have been untoward. A human commentary like this, one about feelings and things, help boost blog attendance.
I don’t know anything about climate investigations but this CMJ is a Democrat. At least the Dems want to stop climate change while the GOP buries its head in the sand.
Thanks for your thoughts, John, though I think a global “ice age” on free climate speech is coming, and that ain’t right. If those folks on the outside of the GW edifice are are wrong, it will be proved in the years ahead and the whole lamentable political polarization of the climate issue will fade away. BTW, I am against pollution of any kind, carbon or plastic in the oceans, aircraft contrails, you name it, I hate it.
BTW, the phrase, “climate change” has historically been temperature neutral, and referred to all kinds of climate changes in the past literature. The oft used phrase, “global warming” was dropped after a number of years into the current “hiatus” or “pause” in warming, as Science Mag has called it. We’re now about 15-20 into the “pause” in warming, in spite of increasing CO2. To most people, this would raise questions about what was missed, clearly something huge, in the climate models that foretold a steady rise in global temperatures. No one is sure what is causing it and there are several theories out there to explain it.
However, the “hiatus” required a bit of a verbal shell game on the part of scientists since “global warming”, that oft used term in the 90s and early part of this century, wasn’t happening. It was soon superceded by the term, “climate change”, which now became bastardized from its original meaning. When “climate change” is used today, what it really means is “climate change due to a warming earth.” That’s the coded message when we read the phrase, “climate change” today. I hate this.
In my opinion, we scientists should have “stayed the course”, not tried to have fooled the public by switching terms in “mid-stream.” Just go with the “pause” but, point out with a little humility, that global warming is likely still ahead, and, “Sure our models were wrong in the first few years, but, “hey”, wait 50 and see what happens!
But, no; we had to fumble our interface with the public during this “hiatus” issue by trying to fool them.
In sum, the whole of the global warming issue is THE MOST MISHANDLED one in the history of science in my opinion! I am still on board that GW band wagon, but barely, and almost hope for an ice age due to the arrogance exhibited by some climate scientists who won’t even tell you how they got their results! It ain’t the way science and scientists is supposed to be, to be colloquial there for a second; we are supposed to be humble, knowing we cannot know the complete, total truth about just about anything. And the global climate system is at the top of that list!
Oh, well, I digress, as they say. Thanks again for taking the time to comment, John. Allows me to get some feelings out there. Where are my pills?
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