Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Temperature, snow, precipitation, Cedarville CA

 Cedarville CA


Just found this while looking at CA snow data.  Fascinating little climate station in the mountains


Doing a search I found a 2008 blog post about this


With a graph of USHCN data up till 2008



Here's the raw data


The GISS graph does not match the actual raw data




Monday, December 19, 2022

Now that the record snow and cold is impossible to ignore, the story has changed

 "When we talk about climate change, we talk about changes in long-term averages of daily weather. Today, children always hear stories from their parents and grandparents about how snow was always piled up to their waists as they trudged off to school. Children today in most areas of the country haven't experienced those kinds of dreadful snow-packed winters, except for the Northeastern U.S. in January 2005. The change in recent winter snows indicate that the climate has changed since their parents were young."

NASA 2006 

Here's a look using Amherst and Blue Hill data












Why this blog?

The most powerful greenhouse gas is water vapor

  The explosive eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai (HTHH) volcano on 15 January 2022 injected more water vapor into the stratosphere ...