Snow day! except….

February 8, 2010

This is a day at work  — a week — that’s hard to rearrange and/or reschedule.

It wasn’t supposed to do this until later in the day… but at 4:30 AM we already had a bit of white stuff.

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It looks as though we may get a good bit more.

When the Arctic Oscillation went strongly negative last month,
temperatures in Arkansas dropped to 10 to 20°F below normal.

We are certainly getting a taste of winter this year.

… and road conditions are already deteriorating (blue is snow covered, green is slush).

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The Arctic Oscillation has become strongly negative again.

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Seismograph Pool

February 6, 2010

Seismograph Pool, West Thumb, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, September 12, 2007

Seismograph Pool, West Thumb,
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, September 12, 2007

Gallery: Madison Junction to West Thumb, September 12, 2007

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Virginia Beach Panorama and 2 new photo galleries

February 4, 2010

virginia beach panorama

Virginia Beach, Virginia, May 10, 2009

I’ve added 2 new Virginia photo galleries to my Haw Creek site – The Mariners’ Museum in Newport News and images from the Virginia Beach ocean front.  All of the photos were taken on May 10, 2009.

Gallery: Virginia Beach, May 10, 2009

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Firehole Lake

February 2, 2010

Firehole Lake, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, September 12, 2007

Firehole Lake Drive, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, September 12, 2007

Information and resource page: Yellowstone National Park

Gallery: Madison Junction to West Thumb, September 12, 2007

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Water Lily bud with dragonfly

January 31, 2010

Lake Bailey, Petit Jean State Park, Arkansas, July 26, 2008
Information: Petit Jean State Park and Petit Jean Mountain
Gallery: Petit Jean State Park and Petit Jean Mountain
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Surface Temperatures – A Question of Policy?

January 30, 2010

What would the implications be if the world’s historical temperature records had been manipulated in a way that results in a warming bias?  A new report shows that this may, in fact, be the case.  At the very best, the January 27, 2010 report, Surface Temperature Records: Policy Driven Deception?, suggests that global temperature databases [...]

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Dodged an icy bullet!

January 29, 2010

We’ve been watching this storm system move our way all week – and we’ve been getting ready for it.

Yesterday, the weather forecast was that we could get as a .75 inch coating of ice on trees and power lines – enough ice to be disastrous.
Fortunately, though, the ice here didn’t get more than a quarter [...]

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Yellowjacket on purple thistle

January 29, 2010

We had parked near the Alluvial Fan parking lot and I had walked across Fall River Road to get a different angle on the scenery for photos.  This image is one of a number of thistle plants in bloom.
Along lower Fall River Road, Rocky Mountains National Park, September 2, 2009
Gallery: Fall River and Trail Ridge [...]

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Berries

January 27, 2010

Fern Lake Trail, Rocky Mountain National Park.
Gallery: Fern Lake Trail – September 5, 2009
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Color

January 25, 2010

Autumn Leaf, Seven Hollows Trail, Petit Jean State Park, Arkansas.
Information: Petit Jean State Park and Petit Jean Mountain
Gallery: Petit Jean State Park and Petit Jean Mountain
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From the Old Faithful Inn entrance porch.

January 23, 2010

Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, September 14, 2007.

This photo was taken from the large porch over the Old Faithful Inn entrance.  It had been raining and we didn’t want to wait at the normal view area for the geyser.  With the dark background, our location made for a nicely different perspective from all [...]

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A lot of hot air on the ice of glaciers

January 21, 2010

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is getting a lot of heat these days on the claim that the Himalayan glaciers will be gone by 2035.

While the information used by the IPCC is supposed to be peer-reviewed and well vetted, it turns out that this gem is derived from a magazine article in New [...]

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Fine day at the market

January 21, 2010

Farmers’ Market in Madison at Wisconsin State Capitol, September 20, 2008
Gallery: Dane County Farmers’ Market on the Square – Madison, Wisconsin, September 13 and 20, 2008, on the streets around the state capitol building
See more of our Image Galleries at Haw Creek.

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Going against the flow

January 19, 2010

Tugboat pushing tow upstream against heavy flows downstream of the Big Dam Bridge – Pulaski County Pedestrian & Bicycle Bridge – Murray Lock and Dam – on the Arkansas River May 12, 2007.
For more information on the bridge, see, our Big Dam Bridge page.
See the photos in our Big Dam Bridge Gallery
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Rocky Mountain National Park and Estes Park photo galleries

January 18, 2010

I’ve finally gotten around to completing the photo galleries from Rocky Mountain National Park and the Estes Park area.  There is one gallery for each day, to keep the galleries from being too large.
The two newest galleries are Moraine Park Elk and Estes Park area and Fern Lake Trail.
Below is the full listing as it [...]

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Update: Arizona State Parks to Close

January 16, 2010

According to major news sources, including the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, major budget shortfalls in Arizona will result in the closure of 13 state parks by June.  Eight others have already been closed.
The Los Angeles Times:

The action represents the largest closure of state parks in the nation, although [...]

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Eyes of the Great Depression 041

January 15, 2010
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The cold continues

January 10, 2010

The snow last week, with some hungry visitors.

The thermometer has not gotten above freezing for over a week.
While we get snow here almost every year, it’s usually melted within 2 or 3 days and, even if we get as much as a foot like we did 2 years ago, it’s gone within a week. [...]

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Cold weather and book burning

January 5, 2010

 

In the UK, elderly customers at charity shops are buying up hardback books – as cheap fuel.
Cheaper than coal?
One assistant said: ‘Book burning seems terribly wrong but we have to get rid of unsold stock for pennies and some of the pensioners say the books make ideal slow-burning fuel for fires and stoves.
A lot [...]

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No weblog awards this year

January 4, 2010

Since I’ve never been nominated for one of these, it’s no big deal to me that the 2009 Weblog awards have been canceled.
What is interesting, though, is the reason that they’ve been canceled.
It seems that voting is just too resource intensive – and expensive.
For more on the story see 2009.weblogawards.org.

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