Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog

Quoting Neapolitan:
Some signs are subtly sneaky:Full article here.

RE: The new plant hardiness zones.

I'm hoping that this graphic will get updated.

http://www.arborday.org/media/mapchanges.cfm

It shows how planting zones changed between 1990 and 2006. Now we have seen even further change.

New??

SOI still at +11.4

Quoting Bergeron:


Global what?

You post a graph with no context to counteract the temperature records coming from no less than 5 separate data sources? Please, do tell which cherry picked data is used for that graph. Perhaps a link to the site would be useful. Hopefully it is a legitimate source and not some pseudo-science hack site.

Look, if the the US Department of Agriculture is releasing updated growing charts as a result of climate change, it really is time to stop covering your ears and screaming "la-la-la".

Quoting Xyrus2000:


You post a graph with no context to counteract the temperature records coming from no less than 5 separate data sources? Please, do tell which cherry picked data is used for that graph. Perhaps a link to the site would be useful. Hopefully it is a legitimate source and not some pseudo-science hack site.

Look, if the the US Department of Agriculture is releasing updated growing charts as a result of climate change, it really is time to stop covering your ears and screaming "la-la-la".

The graph is from NCEP

Quoting Thrawst:

Funso is looking annular. Decent squall line in the gulf..

The name Iggy reminded me of Fifi in 74..The name Fifi may sound inappropriate for such a devastating killer...Hurricane Fifi (later Hurricane Orlene) was a catastrophic tropical cyclone that killed between 3,000 and 10,000 people in Honduras in September 1974, ranking it as the fourth deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record. Originating from a strong tropical wave on September 14, the system steadily tracked west-northwestward through the eastern Caribbean Sea. On September 16, the depression intensified into Tropical Storm Fifi just off the coast of Jamaica. The storm quickly intensified into a hurricane the following afternoon and attained its peak intensity on September 18 as a strong Category 2 hurricane. Maintaining hurricane intensity, Fifi brushed the northern coast of Honduras before making landfall in Belize the following day. The storm quickly weakened after landfall, becoming a depression late on September 20. Continuing westward, the former hurricane began to interact with another system in the eastern Pacific.

Early on September 22, Fifi re-attained tropical storm status before fully regenerating into a new tropical cyclone, Tropical Storm Orlene. Orlene storm traveled in an arced path toward Mexico while quickly intensifying into a Category 2 hurricane before landfall. The storm weakened after landfall and dissipated fully during the afternoon of September 24 over the mountains of Mexico. Along its path, Fifi impacted nine countries, leaving over 8,200 fatalities and $1.8 billion (1974 USD; $8.02 billion 2012 USD) in damages. Most of the loss of life and damage occurred in Honduras where rainfall from the hurricane, peaking around 24 in (610 mm), triggered widespread flash flooding and mudslides.

In a single town, between 2,000 and 5,000 people were killed overnight after a massive flood inundated the area. Fifi brought continuous rainfall to the area for three days, hampering relief efforts in what was the worst disaster in Honduras' history at the time. In nearby Guatemala, an additional 200 people were killed by severe flooding, making Fifi the worst hurricane to impact the country in nearly 20 years. Following the catastrophic damage wrought by the storm, relief agencies from around the world flew in emergency supplies to assist the hundreds of thousands of homeless people. Countries closer to Honduras, such as the United States, set up city donation centers that would send supplies to the country. In efforts to prevent the spread of post-storm diseases, the government allowed the burning of bodies as they were recovered. In a single day, up to 6,000 bodies were burned. Due to the extreme damage and loss of life, the name was retired from the list of Atlantic hurricane names and has not been used since.

Quoting Bergeron:


The graph is from NCEP

lol... This guy is posting a 3yr plot of global temperature anomalies based on the 30yr average of '81-'10 to try and prove that AGW is not real. The graphs could very well be from NCEP but they were selectively chosen by a website that is so crazy they write half the articles in Latin.

Filling in nicely now..

The net-zero-energy home.
I do wonder about whether the energy to manufacture the materials&technology used to build&run the house is higher than for a regular house; and whether the energy-payback period is sufficiently low as to make a "net-zero-energy" home more sustainable than a regular house.

Its my birthday

Iggy

Must be hell on those islands in the middle of that extremely intense convection.

Quoting SPLbeater:
Its my birthday

Happy birthday!

Quoting aspectre:
The net-zero-energy home.
I do wonder about whether the energy to manufacture the materials&technology used to build&run the house is higher than for a regular house; and whether the energy-payback period is sufficiently low as to make a "net-zero-energy" home more sustainable than a regular house.

Seeing new houses built by Lennar with solar panels on the west side of the roofs now. Odd seeing those now, wonder how they will hold up in a hurricane or hail storm though, and how much insurance is to cover them and so on.

Quoting yqt1001:


Happy birthday!

Thank u! I am officially a teenager lol xD

Quoting RitaEvac:


Seeing new houses built by Lennar with solar panels on the west side of the roofs now. Odd seeing those now, wonder how they will hold up in a hurricane or hail storm though, and how much insurance is to cover them and so on.

How can you have privicy and still get solar heating, everyone can see what you have in the rooms to steal !

Rina's TCR is out.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL182011_Rina.pd f

She was upgraded to a major hurricane!

19-7-4

Rina at peak intensity.