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March 2012 was indeed incredible (and the subsequent fruit-tree freeze in April quite damaging). This event seems on track to be more Southwestern-focused once the next two weeks get folded in, versus the Midwestern skew in 2012 (see anomaly map attached).
www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit...
Superbβand *very* unsettlingβroundup from @weatherwest.bsky.social. The imminent SW heat wave (likely the most intense for March on record) will involve similar dynamics to the June 2021 scorcher in the PacNW. This landscape-parching heat may set the stage for serious fire/drought trouble by summer.
Interesting how the sharp Western skew of this year's anomalous heat isn't apparent in the maps for 1910 and 2012!
My monthly climate summary for February:
yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/03/febr...
βThere will be no Miracle Marchβ to bring California more snow, writes @climatedaddykqed.bsky.social
βWeβre going to get to April 1st, and weβre going to have some scary snowpack numbers, essentially everywhere,β says @weatherwest.bsky.social @ucanr.edu
www.kqed.org/science/2000...
Corpus Christi has gotten about a foot less rain than usual the past year, so βthe city is resorting to a millennia-old tactic: praying for rain.β
Precip overall was quite sparse this winter: it was the fifth driest in U.S. records going back to 1895. More here:
yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/03/we-j...
From these maps alone, I'm struggling to see how this month *doesn't* end up as the warmest March in contiguous U.S. history, perhaps by a long shot.
Remember all that snow that fell from the Carolinas to Boston? I bet you assume this has been quite a snow season overall. Well, for the Lower 48, this is the least snowy season (through February) for any year since at least 1940-41 when looking at all years through February. Thanks humans!
Folks still thawing out might be wondering: How bad a U.S. winter was it overall? Very bad β that is, if youβre concerned about long-term warming and intensified drought impacts. (2nd warmest and 5th driest on record.) @climateconnections.bsky.social
yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/03/we-j...
The record daily max of 83Β°F on Friday 3/6/2026 was the warmest reading in recorded history for Atlanta so early during any calendar year. threadex.rcc-acis.org @michaelemann.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @climatecentral.org @bhensonweather.bsky.social @donsutherland1.bsky.social @zacklabe.com
Well put! I can't think of any other Elvis song with that particular heart-rending catch in his voice you hear on "My Boy."
It was approximately today that I learned the lyric is "Shame on you! If you can't dance too!" I always thought it was "Shame on you! If you can't pass through!" (Fresh from the Dept. of Mondegreens.)
Of course, the request would be:
"Hey, won't you play that 'Hey, Won't You Play Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" song?"
Very meta!
For my money, 1975 has the most glorious array of musical diversity of any #AT40 years from the 1970s.
Stunning video of strong tornadoes in far S Michigan on Fri is making the rounds. Tornado probabilities in this area were quite low (2%), but it's can't be stressed enough that "low" doesn't mean "zero":
"...the atmosphere is a complex system and occasionally low probability events occur."
Here's a great comparison of tracks from the 1977 and 1978 versions using brief audio clips. Even the song order got tweaked in the final release!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA39...
Who's ready to make another run at record global temperatures? π₯
My college roommate in fall β78 actually had a copy of that quickly-pulled original βMagazineβ LP, including βHeartlessβ. Vocals across the album were distinctly different from the eventual β78 release (after theyβd gone back in the studio to polish things up).
A new paper on the "stabilization wedge" idea was published in the journal Science today. The authors provide 36 wedge strategies that together can be mixed and matched into more than 6 trillion combinations able to limit global warming to 1.5Β°C. @bhensonweather.bsky.social has a detailed analysis:
US severe convective storm (SCS) activity to ramp up. The Storm Prediction Center already flags 4 of the next 8 days with likely activity.
Outbreaks starting in March have accounted for a notable portion of annual SCS losses for insurers:
2020: 12%
2021: 12%
2022: 9%
2023: 20%
2024: 15%
2025: 26%
Last week, most headlines led with βbelow normal snowpackβ. But thatβs only part of the Calif water picture, as the snowpack is basically just a βfrozen reservoirβ. The 3 Sierra Precip Indices are a better metric, showing both frozen and liquid precip, and are all above normal!
Photograph showing current fire conditions.
#BlueBellFire in #Boulder, CO (near Chautauqua Park) currently burning amid extremely dry and near record-warm conditions (69F and 7% RH). Lack of strong winds right now thankfully a major mitigating factor. So far, mostly sfc fire plus occasional torching in confers. #COwx
Ughhhh. Fortunately, winds at the nearby NCAR Mesa Lab are light and from the east, so not pushing the fire toward town.
archive.eol.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/weat...
Here's the preliminary findings from NWS-Brownsville on what may be America's hottest winter temperature on record.
My comprehensive look at the future of major hurricane landfalls for the continental U.S. There is no long-term trend in major hurricane landfalls, but with more majors now prowling the Atlantic, a shift in steering currents could change that.
Quite a few south TX locations reached or topped 100Λ Thursday the first 100s in the nation in 2026.
Laredo (103Λ) tied their Feb. monthly record.
Dozens more daily records from TX -> S. Calif. through Sunday.
Denver days this winter (since Dec. 1):
50Β°+: 58 days (most on record)
60Β°+: 37 days (most on record)
70Β°+: 7 days (most on record)
#COwx
Talked about the record Southwest warmth in my post today, and in fact Pueblo set an all time monthly record high of 83F.