atmospheric rivers, Tag

Meteorologists favorite diagnostic for atmospheric rivers is integrated water vapor transport (IVT), which is the amount of water vapor times the wind speed, summed up in the vertical (that is where the integrated comes from). ...

This atmospheric river is predicted to hit land as an AR-5, the strongest level observed.  We can be thankful that the center of the river will make landfall north of Washington State, where only AR-2 levels should occur...

The Arctic’s fate is not as straightforward as many would have us believe, and neither should be the policies we enact in response to its changes.

From CFACT By Chris Martz Since the end of January, California has been pelted by a series of atmospheric rivers bringing rounds of moderate-to-heavy rainfall for days on end, spurring…

Where is this mega-drought they were so crazed with worry about, a year ago?

The misleading nature of attribution science has been pointed out multiple times at Climate Realism, for example, here, here, and here,  as the accuracy of a computer models are only as accurate as the input of data...

Seven pieces of climate propaganda from January 2023 exposed and debunked.

The threat to whales is hardly the only problem with Biden’s plan, as proven by an analysis of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Coastal Virginia Offshore...

It’s remarkable that so many intelligent people profess that the current California disaster is due to human-caused climate change.

WaPo and much of climate science today is overly reliant on projections from computer models rather than looking at trends in historical and real-world data.

Sometimes you see meteorological imagery and just say wow.

 reality is not following the predicted extreme precipitation increase projected by the climate models.

But the jury, viewing the observations, have released a definitive ruling on whether precipitation whiplash is increasing during the past 120 years in California:  no evidence for it, case dismissed.

Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow bands of moisture in the atmosphere that extend from the tropics to higher latitudes. These rivers in the sky can transport 15 times the volume of the Mississippi River. When that moisture...

The most powerful atmospheric river of the season so far is now imminent and will reach our coast later tomorrow (Monday).