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2020 U.S. Tropical Landfalls – 20 Biggest California Wildfires on Record
October: A Month of Manic Meteorology Welcome to a fickle month of full-bodied weather. October has brought everything from 90s to flooding rains, rare tornadoes and wild winds. Frozen water, too. Average Twin Cities snowfall this month is .6 inches. We rarely see...
NOAA Turns 50 – Are Power Outages Increasing – Western Infernos
Warming Trend Likely Into Mid-October "Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace" said the Dalai Lama. I vaguely remember inner peace. Someone freeze me like a popsicle and thaw me out in 2022. I achieved some level of inner peace gazing at the...
Are Weather Forecasts About To Become More Accurate – Glass Fire Burning an Acre Every 5 Seconds
A Raw Weekend But Weather Mellows Next Week Weather is a metaphor for life: an unpredictable mash-up of good and bad, with only the illusion of control. In my muddled mind I consider the blustery showers rushing past my window cosmic payback for last week's 80s. The...
Heat and Wildfires Western USA – First Flakes Northern Minnesota by Saturday?
November-ish This Week, Septemberlike Next Week Winston Churchill said "We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give". I'm trying to call at least one friend, family member or colleague every day, to check in and say hi - see how they're doing. It's...
Cold Snap Coming – Drought Worsens Western USA – NOAA Model Upgrade Looks Out 35 Days
NOAA Takes Steps To Catch Up to ECMWF For the record, I'd like American Exceptionalism to apply to weather model accuracy. My take: The National Weather Service is the best on the planet, but in recent years the ECMWF (European Centre for Medium Range Weather...
La Nina Winter – Zombie Storms – 5 of California’s 6 Largest Wildfires Occurred During Last 2 Months
La Nina Now Likely This Winter I've consulted my therapist and my winter outlook remains unchanged: "Colder with some snow". It's the details (when, where, how much?) that trip me up every time. According to NOAA, a La Nina cooling phase in the Pacific Ocean should...