Hello Death Valley temperature record research fans! I have presented a lot of background and history and data on the early temperature record at Greenland… [Read More]
October 13, 2020 A Drive to Western Nevada Mining Towns
MOUNT MONTGOMERY, NEVADA (site) This leisurely drive to visit some new (for me) areas of western Nevada began in Bishop, California. … [Read More]
August 15, 2020 Hot Local Chase
Temperatures soared in the local valleys today as onshore flow to the deserts was weak, the marine inversion was very shallow, and a hot upper… [Read More]
July 14, 2020 Comet Neowise from Moorpark, California
Comet Neowise started to put on a show for viewers from Earth in the pre-dawn hours starting around July 5. But, the moon was… [Read More]
June 13, 2020 Glasgow to Opheim Storm (in Montana!)
Start: Glendive, MT Lunch: Circle/Wooden Nickel Cafe End: Plentywood, MT 363 miles Storm Reports SPC Day One Outlook/20Z SPC Mesoscale Discussion 911 SPC Mesoscale… [Read More]
Unravelling Death Valley’s 134F Record, Part 2 Early Greenland Ranch Data Reliability
PART ONE is here PART THREE is here PART FOUR is here PART FIVE is here PART SIX is here August 2016 update —-… [Read More]
Unravelling Death Valley’s 134F Temperature Record, Part 4B 1961 to 2017 Heat Events
Welcome to Part 4B. Here, we investigate the hottest Death Valley heat events from 1961 to 2017. The Cow Creek and Greenland Ranch stations closed… [Read More]
December 5, 2017 Smoky Sunrise from SNI
On this morning, smoke from the Thomas Fire (near Ventura and Ojai) was spreading southward over the ocean. Low-level smoke to the east of… [Read More]
May 30, 2017 Southeastern Colorado Mushballs
Start: Garden City, KS Lunch: Lamar (Sonic and McDonalds) End: La Junta, CO 425 miles SPC Day One Outlook/20Z There were no mesoscale discussions… [Read More]
November 13, 2015 Local minimum temperature study
The offshore wind pattern of the past few days has spread very dry air over SoCal and has resulted in a very wide range of… [Read More]
Unravelling Death Valley’s 134 Temperature Record, Part 3 Hot Temperature Comparisons
UPDATE, August, 2016 This part remains incomplete — sorry about that. I have been working on Part 4, which will help me with the remaining… [Read More]
June 14, 2014 Smith County, KS supercell
SPC was rather gung-ho about severe prospects today, with a large moderate risk, hatched hail and wind areas, and 10 percent tornado graphics splattered… [Read More]
November 17, 2013 Lost iphone tale
This write-up was posted originally on my Facebook page on November 7, 2013: I think I will share my “lost iphone” true story. Three days… [Read More]
May 27, 2013 Smith County, Kansas, HP tornadic supercell
Another day, another moderate risk in May…and a 10-percent-hatched tornado risk in north-central KS, too! We abandoned Cozad, NE, and went south to Phillipsburg,… [Read More]
August 21, 2012 Local Airport and Valley images
I am still behind in getting my spring 2012 chase images up on SB. I found some images taken a little prior to my storm… [Read More]