NOTE: This is a long account of my “wildfire chase” of the Palisades Fire, which is now one of the costliest disasters in the country’s… [Read More]
Westlake Village Daily Climate Records, through 2024
This page contains links to scans of my original hand-written daily weather records from Dec 1997 to about the present (2023 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]
Video of Temperature Measurements in Death Valley on July 9, 2024
This video shows temperature readings off of the digital Kestrel during my drive through Death Valley on July 9, 2024. It begins along 190 at… [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]
May 25, 2024 Tornadic Supercell near Hazleton, Kansas
Start: OKC End: Pratt, Kansas Storm Reports SPC Day One/20z This was a fun chase day between Tours 4 and 5, as Tempest staff was… [Read More]
May 21, 2024 Southwestern Iowa Tornadoes
Begin: McCook, NE/lunch: grab-and-go convenience store somewhere around Lincoln/End: Hiawatha, KS/522 miles Links to tornado video clips by Tempest Tours guests are provided at the… [Read More]
Chase Summaries, 2024 Tour Four, May 18 to 25
Link to May 21, 2024 Tornado Chase in Iowa May 18/Lightning Show in SE Colorado Begin: OKC/lunch at La Carlitos in Woodward, OK/End: Lamar, CO/465… [Read More]
Chase Summaries, 2024 Tour Three, May 6 to May 17
May 6/High Risk Western OK Start: OKC/lunch Braums in Weatherford, OK/End: Weatherford, OK SPC Day One/20Z Storm Reports Oh, my goodness! This chase day was… [Read More]
May 2, 2024 Anson and Hawley, TX, tornadoes
Start: Dodge City, KS Lunch: Grab and Go/Hutch’s/Sayre OK End: Abilene. TX 490 miles SPC Severe Weather Event for May 2 SPC Day One/20Z Storm… [Read More]
Chase Summaries, 2024 Tour Two, April 27 to May 5
Tempest Tours Tour 2 in 2024 started about 26 hours too late. Our turn-around day in OKC between Tours 1 and 2 was April 26,… [Read More]
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