Now in a really good web site about weather, clouds and climate, we would have talked about May around the first of May. But let’s face it, this site really isn’t that great. So now we’ll talk about the climate of May on May 11th. Below is the rain frequency climate, such as it is,… Continue reading Let’s talk about May
Category: Cloud seeding
Yesterday’s awful Cumulus clouds; better ones today!
From the University of WY Cowpokes, this awful sounding from yesterday afternoon at Tucson. Where the two lines first pinch together, around the “500” label, is where the Cumulus cloud bases were yesterday afternoon (marked by the oval)! To see why those Cumulus were awful ones with too much ice, check the temperature lines, the ones… Continue reading Yesterday’s awful Cumulus clouds; better ones today!
“(the reviewers)… are still unconvinced by these controversial claims.” A science story.
Alternate titles, choose one or all: 1) The story of APIPs (Aircraft-Produced Ice Particles) 2) They said it couldn’t be done, but they did it anyway 3) ‘An embarrassment for the airborne research community’–Dr. John Hallett, 2008 OK, “baby I’m bored” with the lack of clouds and precip, and so I thought I would share my boredom… Continue reading “(the reviewers)… are still unconvinced by these controversial claims.” A science story.
So Seattle
Seattle nostalgia part Got a little homesick yesterday with the weather the way it was here in Catalina. Well, after 32 years in Seattle it seemed like home. The dank, gray, low-hanging, lifeless, overcast skies of Stratus and Stratocumulus clouds hour after hour (spoken with emphasis on each descriptor using a whiney kind of emotional… Continue reading So Seattle
More about holes-in-clouds while we’re waiting for the AZ rain in a few days
There have been a coupla comments on that aircraft effect in clouds blog of a coupla weeks ago and so I thought I would follow up with this sequence from the Atmos Sci Building rooftop at the University of Washington where I spent most of my time instead of at my desk.1 Here is a… Continue reading More about holes-in-clouds while we’re waiting for the AZ rain in a few days
Montford’s The Hockey Stick Illusion, p269: climate change meets cloud seeding
“McIntyre’s first step in trying to replicate a paper was to collate the data. While data might be cited correctly and accurately in the papers, it was always possible that what had been used was different in some way to the official versions, whether due to an error in the archive or one made… Continue reading Montford’s The Hockey Stick Illusion, p269: climate change meets cloud seeding
What’s Up with This?
Got pretty mad yesterday when I saw this overhead in some Altocumulus perlucidus clouds. You’ll have to hold your monitor or Ipad, or cell phone, or whatever, over your head to see it EXACTLY the way I saw this because it WAS overhead; straight up. (Actually, doing 3 sets of 12 might be good for… Continue reading What’s Up with This?