Monthly Archives: October 2020

Climate change in the Arctic is almost certainly the biggest story of our time, spanning decades. It has surely been the biggest story of 2020, continuing to this day. I have been documenting information about this ongoing situation with a … Continue reading →

I’m going to try something today that is not easy.  I think I know how to explain the manner by which the upper-level pattern of hPa air pressure configuration is composed, and want to pass this information on as clearly … Continue reading →

The Arctic warm anomaly is still there, even warmer than usual in one area that is showing +17C.  The actual temperature taken from the Windy website this morning for that spot is 0C to +1.  For comparison, the same source … Continue reading →

When I write about the upper atmosphere having a separate wind system there is something that needs clarifying.  There are really three separate and distinct wind systems effective at altitudes of about three miles and higher.  Each hemisphere has its … Continue reading →

Another perfectly clear example of how strong jetstream winds are able to block the movement of streaming water vapor that has entered the upper atmosphere wind system, in this case causing a cool temperature anomaly at the surface below. Please … Continue reading →

  The Climate Letter for September 28 contains an image showing a quite warm temperature anomaly covering muvh of the Arctic Ocean.  The story told how the anomaly seemed not to be affected by the amount of sea ice on … Continue reading →

A new study that caught my attention was published today in the journal Nature Communications, having the title, “A less cloudy picture of the inter-model spread in future global warming projections.”(https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18227-9, open access)  One of the authors works at Floricda … Continue reading →

Something new today. I have been looking for a better way to explain air temperature anomalies occurring over ocean surface waters and have found a promising approach. Overhead water vapor that works so well over land may have to take … Continue reading →

Some thoughts about streams of precipitable water in the upper atmosphere. I think they are of critical importance to climate science, but that view is not in accord with the way climate science is being taught in the universities. The … Continue reading →

Today we’ll start with an image of high-altitude air pressure configuration, featuring an odd break in the green zone of the NH that stands out like a sore thumb.  It’s not an accident.  It’s there because the region directly below … Continue reading →