Last week my family spent the night at Lonesome Lake Hut in the White Mountains (we were the only folks there, so the caretaker let us sleep next to the wood stove in the main room rather than in an unheated bunkhouse - ahhhhh!). There was more snow than I had expected after seeing the [...]

A post from the Freakonomics blog on the NY Times site (read it here) points out that the mayor of Moscow - a place that knows its winter weather - vowed to reduce snow in his city this year through cloud seeding. The result? Record snowfall.
Cloud seeding to alter precipitation isn’t a bogus idea, of [...]

Having survived Town Meeting day (a harrowing time in the local-newspaper business), I’m going to detox with the family at Lonesome Lake hut for a couple days, and see the crummy winter we’ve had up close.(Can I blame our low snowfall on Global Warming? No, I suppose I have to be reasonable, unlike the “DC [...]

First we lost the Old Man of the Mountain - now we’re losing claim to “world’s fastest wind”!
The World Meteorological Organization has confirmed that a gust of 253.5 mph (408 km/h) was directly measured at ground level in Australia during Tropical Cyclone Olivia on April 10, 1996, breaking the 231 mph (372 km/h) maesurement made [...]

From UNH News Service: New research from the University of New Hampshire shows that the last five years have been some of the wettest in more than 100 years.
According to Mary Stampone, assistant professor of geography and the New Hampshire State Climatologist, the years from 2005 to 2009 have broken records for monthly, seasonal, and [...]

Burlington, Vermont, got a record snowfall this weekend - as the paper’s Weather Rapport column notes, an official tally of 33.1 inches over a day and a half, the biggest total ever recorded in that city.
However, the column also says that, melted down, it equaled a mere 1.05 inch of water. That’s a 33-1 ratio, [...]

Here’s a weird one: the mayor of Moscow (as in Russia, not Maine) tried to keep snow away from his city this winter with cloud seeding. It didn’t work, reports GlobalPost.
Seeding clouds to control rain/snow is a practice that lies somewhere between science and wishful thinking, since it’s so very difficult to do controlled studies [...]

It’s almost 9 a.m. and we haven’t got any snow to speak of from this big East Coast storm. They got almost two feet in D.C., my hometown (which I left partly because it didn’t get enough snow).

I demand a recount!!
UPDATE: We got an inch or two at most, although it’s such [...]

Who’s really scared of climate change? The ski industry: Warmer, drier weather would be the death knell for borderline winter sports areas, such as southern New Hampshire.
A report from the Rockies (new story here) predicts that the snow line could rise 2,400 vertical feet by the end of the century. This would be due to [...]

Nothing local that I can find, so let’s take another look at the ClimateGate email controversy - by stealing other folks’ coverage:
Freakonomics blog: “ClimateGate as Rorschach Test” - a good look at how reactions to ClimateGate often follow predictable patterns. It reaches no conclusion about whether or not they undermine the science behind global-warming, which [...]

I haven’t read any of the deluge of material taken from the hacked servers at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England, which is ramping up the invective in the supercharged climate-change field, so I don’t have much useful comment, particularly on the question of: Is the science still believable, [...]

Sound the global warming panic bells! Check this statement from the Mount Washington Observatory:
As of this past Saturday, Mount Washington was a staggering 7.4 degrees (F) warmer than the average November, 6.71 inches of liquid precipitation dryer then the average November and a whopping three feet of snow behind  where we should [...]

This post concerns a UNH researcher Joseph Licciardi’s work analyzing the Little Ice Age, a mid-millennium climate event that is still much debated: Says the post: “It’s an odd fact of climate science, but some more recent events are harder to figure out than those in the more distant past.” The research, published in Science, [...]

Via Slashdot, I found this wonderful tale in h+ magazine about a ’70s-era plan, which sounds like it was sort of tongue-in-cheek and sort of serious, to put a dome over Winooski, Vt., as a way to reduce the cost of dealing  with winter. (This was during the first Oil Crisis, when anything to reduce [...]

Forget the silliness with the Farmer’s Almanac and its long-term weather “predictions” based on secret formulas - what do real forecasters say about the coming winter?
NOAA says this winter will be a toss-up for New England, as this map shows (the temperature outlook also forecasts  “equal chances” of above or below average for us):
On the [...]