NOAA released its global analysis for February 2014 this morning. Interesting to see it in graphical form (below).
The most interesting coincidence is that the sea ice extent at the north and south pole are the fourth-lowest and fourth-highest, respectively, on record. Another highlight was that the combined average global temperature, at 0.41°C (0.74°F) above the 20th century average, was the 21st-highest February average on record. It tied with 2001.
Take a look: NCDC February Analysis
Just for fun, I wanted to take a look at how we did for rainfall estimates across the southern plains yesterday…
The forecast looked like this:
Abilene – 50% || .50″ – .75″
Amarillo – 40% || .10″ – .25″
Dallas – 60% || 1.00″ – 1.25″
Lubbock – 50% || .25″ – .50″Guymon – 30% || .10″ – .25″
Lawton – 60% || 1.25″ – 1.50″
Oklahoma City – 70% || 2.00″ – 2.25″Dodge City – 30% || .10″ – .25″
Hays – 30% || .10″ – .25″
Wichita – 50% || .75″ – 1.25″
This morning, I looked into the rain totals for Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning. And here is how it looked:
Abilene – .61″
Amarillo – .00″
Dallas – 1.29″
Lubbock – .00″
Guymon – .00″
Lawton – .44″
Oklahoma City – .66″
Dodge City – .00″
Hays – .00″
Wichita – .20″
Taking a look at the NOAA 24hr precip estimates from radar data, it looks like the heaviest rain that was anticipated to roll through Lawton and eventually Oklahoma City shifted slightly south and a little east.
Dallas set a record.
Places like Wichita Falls, Texas (1.84″) through Ada, Oklahoma (2.33″) and into Fort Smith, Arkansas (1.71″) received the most rain.
So far, so good. It looks like the forecast is verifying for the southern plains. While most of the severe weather is staying in east Texas, a solid soaking rain with strong-to-severe storms are rolling across parts of Oklahoma and north and west Texas. Even south central Kansas is getting into the act.
It will be interesting to see the rain totals from this round of rain.
Here is a look at the 5:45pm radar
Interesting read from Climate Central on the costs of global climate change. Originally it was thought that each ton of carbon into the atmosphere cost the world 37 bucks.
Apparently, that isn’t quite high enough.
Take a look: Social Cost of Carbon…
After an emergency appendectomy (sp?) I’m back in the saddle. So for those of you curious, “What happened to Nick?” I guess that is the answer.
Now that I’m back after two weeks of recovery, expect to see more weather breakdowns and videos!
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