This page contains links to scans of my original hand-written daily weather records from Dec 1997 to about the present (2025 as of now) for… [Read More]
December 13, 2024 Roy Spencer Finds the Death Valley Maximums a Bit Problematic!
Dr. Roy Spencer has compared summer maximums between Death Valley/Furnace Creek (DV/FC) and the USCRN station Stovepipe Wells 1SW. He has also, apparently, checked out… [Read More]
December 3, 2024 A page dedicated to Dr. Arnold Court
This is a bit of a weird entry, but I wanted to pay homage to my college advisor and Climatology professor, Dr. Arnold Court (1914-1999)…. [Read More]
Stovepipe Wells 1SW Climate Data
Stovepipe Wells 1SW is a USCRN weather station which began operating in 2004. It is a high-end automatic climate station with top-notch instrumentation and fabulous… [Read More]
Climatologist Dr. Roy Spencer Tests the Old Death Valley Temperature Data
Dr. Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama crunched some maximum temperature data for the Death Valley region (covering the last 115 years), and wrote… [Read More]
New Information on the Badwater Weather Station
I received an e-mail recently from NASA scientist Chris McKay (pictured above on September 19, 2011). McKay found my web site, and shared that he… [Read More]
Death Valley Heat Wave, July 2024, DATA PAGE
High-end summer heat waves in the Death Valley region and the Mojave Desert have been the norm for the past several years. This entry is… [Read More]
June 28, 2024 KS/NE border High-based Storms
Start: Presho, SD/lunch: Subway in Valentine, NE/End: Oberlin, KS/miles—lots Final chase day for Tour 8 and for me for the chase season. We tried our… [Read More]
June 26 and 27, 2024 Chases
June 26, 2024 Junky Storms near Chugwater, WY Start: Broken Bow, NE/lunch: Bridgeport Burger Werx/End: Hot Springs, SD/535 miles A day with a lot of… [Read More]
June 25, 2024 Supercell near Chambers, NE
Housekeeping Section: Start of Tour 8 on June 23 Begin: Denver/lunch: Valentinos in Ogallala/End: Norfolk Position day, no chase/483 miles June 24, 2024 Start: Norfolk,… [Read More]
June 21, 2024 Supercell Carpenter to Raymer
Start: Ogallala/lunch: Burger Werx in Bridgeport/End: Denver/about 400 miles Storm Reports SPC Day One SPC Meso Disc. 5:40 p.m. CDT This was the final chase… [Read More]
June 20, 2024 Yoder Tornado
June 19 reposition day Start: Liberal/brunch: Pancake House in Liberal/End: Wray, CO/312 miles June 20 chase day Start: Wray, CO/lunch: Arbys and Runza in Sidney/End:… [Read More]
June 18, 2024 Liberal and Forgan Severe
Start: McCook/lunch: Oakley fast food/End: Liberal/387 miles Storm Reports SPC Day One We put ourselves along an obvious boundary in southwest Kansas, and watched some… [Read More]
June 17, 2024 A Cap Bust in the Sandhills
SPC Day One Hopes and dreams were elevated a bit on this chase day, but the cap won out. We observed some semi-strong storm towers… [Read More]
June 16, 2024 Stationary Supercell at McCook, NE
Start: Grand Island, NE/lunch: Holdredge Country Kitchen/End: McCook/307 miles Storm Reports SPC Day One SPC Meso Disc 3:39 p.m. CDT SPC Meso Disc 6:22 p.m…. [Read More]