GeraldRube, you added up the maxima, so if you know about the ranges, I do not understand the purpose of making the sum and questioning it. I'd leave science to the scientists if I were you and ignore the ignorati with Watts and Goddard as mouth pieces.

Since there was the hand-flapping in this thread on the Texas drought, did some reading on the specific conditions, which in summary comes down to it being largely a self propelled system due lack of moisture in the soils, from years of build up... search for ''soil moisture, rainfall feedback"... it did not start in 2011, nor 2010. It's almost like a virtual wall surrounding that region and they'll literally are in need of several TSses to dump large amounts of water, except, most will run off as quick as it comes down. Very dry ground is not very conducive to absorption. From the visits to Texas I remember if it rained it rained by the bucket. Last time I thought from air it seemed allot greener than in the 80's. Maybe it was seasonal, but this is a July observation.

Brazil actually has desertification features building due the old rain forest water vapor cycle interruption... large scale deforestation.

Katia is on the way... hope it makes nowhere landfall, not even comes within a hundred miles of the coastline, to include all the Caribbean islands that are somehow always forgotten.

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The hurricane list runs on a 6 year cycle. Since Katrina was a major storm and the name was retired, it was replaced with Katia.

Will Irene retire?
http://news.yahoo.com/hurricane-irenes-name-retired-183010014.html

Everybody focuses on windspeed, but tropical storms can sit in one spot and spin and generate piles of rain.

Connecticut had twice as many power failures from Irene as it did for Gloria, which was a "real" hurricane.

If you're actually trying to make a case for or against climate change by using monthly data, you have seriously missed the distinction between the concepts of weather and climate. I suggest you understand this distinction before pursuing the debate further.

Hi KWSN - A Shrubbery

No it's a work in progress

After the Climategate emails of late 2009 it is clear that the major temperature series maintained by NASA GISS and the Hadley Climate Research Unit are "massaged" "have fiddle factors introduced" "corrections" you know that kind of thing.

They all use the same source data and yet don't arrive at the same answer

It is also clear that the source data (which has been subsequently post-processed) no longer exists. So, appallingly, after the effort that has gone in to collecting all of this weather data across the years the likes of Hadley CRU have flushed this info down the toilet

The bottom line is that the current data series cannot be trusted because they can not be reproduced even by the "Scientists" that present them to the World as fact

Facts that have enormous consequences to everybody's lives and potential


Given that this is the case and that "Climate Scientists" are scaring the World with predictions of 1.5C, 2C, 6C increases over the next 89 years I thought I would get together a database of real temperature measurements presented, as is, where we really can compare apples with apples

The source data is the METAR produced by NOAA's Land based weather stations around the globe. By comparing the same set year on year we will know the truth.


At the end of each year I will review which stations are still producing live 24/7 valid data and strip out all the ones that have gone obsolete from throughout the record

At the moment the station producing hourly data 24/7 number ~2680 and range the Globe from Afghanistan to Yeman

If the Globe is warming in the fashion described by the Alarmists as the year pass this will be seen

If like me you believe that there are far more important elements to the complex climate equation than simply CO2 then the graph will rise and fall with the year by year natural variation.

Rest assured I will not lose my record of NOAA's data and I am stubbornly persistent and patient.

I hope that one day the graph above will replace Mann's Hockey Stick as the truth regarding Earth's Climate and will be used pragmatically by Politician's with our best interests at heart to guide the policy for all our futures

..until then


Dave

as a FYI

15,692,263 individual temperature measurements make up the graph so far