April showers bring May flowers. This rare April storm so dumped 2.1" of rain in Kensington after a virtually dry March

A historic marine heat wave is battering California’s coast and impacting the weather Spring downpours, a muggier summer, stronger Pacific hurricanes and more mountain thunderstorms are among the impacts of the highly anomalous warm water off California’s coast.

The water off California is some of the most anomalously warm water in the world. And it's likely to impact our weather this summer in interesting ways.

@edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social with the story

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Advances in Modelling Radiative Transfer, Heat Storage and Turbulent Transport to Evaluate CO2, Heat and Water Fluxes Over Broad‐Leaved Forests: The CanVeg2 Model The CanVeg2 biophysical model is presented with a focus on three novel components with regards to the CanVeg model: 3D ray tracing radiative transfer modeling, a stem energy budget, and wind and turb....

I thank @digitalforestlab.bsky.social for all the hard work updating in Matlab version of Canveg as described in onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Now that i retired, the PBS Burns series motivated me to start reading Walden. An interesting look back in history and seeing universal issues about people and environment that transcend time

Given the 1000s of PhD scientists who have left government service recently, it is time to revisit what happened in Nazi Germany. This article discusss the raminfications of the exodus of leading mathematicians, chemists and physicists from Goettingen

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Towards Affordable Wetland Evapotranspiration Monitoring Using the Variance‐Bowen Ratio Method: Insights From Three Contrasting Wetlands The utility of the Variance-Bowen Ratio (VBR) method was evaluated against eddy covariance measurements across three wetlands Half-hourly VBR latent heat fluxes showed consistent storage-related ...

Towards Affordable Wetland Evapotranspiration Monitoring Using the Variance‐Bowen Ratio Method: Insights From Three Contrasting Wetlands - Wang - 2026 -
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Over last 2 days we got 0.40" in Kensington and were shaken at 141 am by the Boulder Creek earthquake. So a busy start to April in the geosphere

In response to the outcry of sadness when their water buffalo gelato was discontinued, a local grocery store in Point Reyes Station announced today that they’re going to replace it with locally sourced, free-range, organic elk milk gelato (otherwise known as melk).

When asked exactly how the melk was sourced, the grocery store simply said, “Don’t worry about it.”

WMF had a pre-launch taste test of the melk gelato and found it has creamy undertones with a hint of native grass. We give it two hooves up.

A Record Fog Snarled Highways—but Is Sustaining California’s Orchards After decades of decline, “foggageddon” returned to the Central Valley in historic fashion, bringing both hazards and agricultural relief.

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No Kings in Petaluma, Ca. Peaceful. An engaged crowd of concerned citizens of all ages and stripes. About 7k strong, if not more

El Niño is on the way: What that means for California’s weather NOAA scientists have issued an “El Niño Watch” for this summer with chances rising through the fall

Nice interview of meteorologist Jan Noll @ggweather.bsky.social
On El Nino/La Nina

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Rise of the shrubs: what happened when scientists heated a Rocky Mountain wildlife meadow by 2C? A long-running experiment in Colorado provides an ‘alarming’ view of how rapidly unchecked global heating could transform fragile ecosystems

update on the experiment my colleague John Harte started almost 30 years ago

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Simple internal processing. I do denoise final image. Later i will try and expand post processing. Still learning

I am grateful that many of you enjoy occasional pictures of galaxies. Last night I got a 2 hour exposure of Caldwell 7, 11 million light years away.

Learning to use a wind screen for a tighter focus

For background info check

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As a point of reference many of us in NorCal are hunkering down in this unprecedented Winter heat spell without air conditioning. It is Pushing 90F. It is Over 100F in LA where our kids and former student @jbfisher.bsky.social live

Anatomy of a heat wave sunny days aren't all they're cracked up to be

A couple of years ago, I wrote about what causes heat waves, like the one that’s occurring in the Western US.

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Can’t say I’ve ever seen this many monthly records fall in a day. ~80 and that’s a conservative count. It’s gonna be even hotter tomorrow. #heatwave Map via CoolWx

Can culling your garden slow a wildfire? A California city pins its hopes on a contested plan Berkeley is adopting the ‘Zone 0’ regulation, which mandates first 5ft around the home in high-risk areas should be clear of combustible material

“I'm afraid we’ll look back and say we took an ax to a problem when we should have taken a scalpel,” @edithdeguzman.bsky.social warns that removing plants to address wildfire risk could worsen extreme heat & water challenges...@gabriellecanon.bsky.social
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The worst of California’s heat wave is still ahead. Here’s when temperatures will peak California’s “marathon” heat wave is only halfway through, with the hottest temperatures — and possible records — expected later this week.

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Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating Exclusive: Fixing a leak can be simple and equivalent to closing a coal power station, making lack of action maddening, say analysts

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My anatomy of a historic March heatwave

If you permit me to be tongue in check tonight in the mist of the March Bay Area heat spell, what is the one upside of a warmer climate for us? Tonight is the first night it is warm enough to dine outside in the past 2 or 3 years; fyi We are down wind from Karl the Fog

And if they take building away from NCAR, will it lose water service?
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I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14 How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research

This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi.

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Time for you!

Study reveals 400K acres of old growth forest, hiding in plain sight New research reveals the Adirondack Park may hold nearly nine times more old growth forest than previously mapped

Another piece of good news about forests

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These Underprotected Brazilian Wetlands Store Carbon with Staggering Density - Eos The Cerrado, largely overlooked in climate science and policy, is a critical carbon sink, according to new research.

Brazil’s Cerrado may be one of the most important carbon sinks in the Americas, though its carbon-storing capacity has been historically overlooked.

Yes. I worked on Jack Pine, Pinus banksiana, for 2 summers in Saskatchewan and they rely on fire to propagate.

If the giant sequoia is dying out, why are there tens of thousands of seedlings and saplings? Thousands of giant sequoia seedlings sprouted after a fire swept a grove in the Sierra in 2021. Will they replace the behemoths that died or become extinct?

Interesting Story on sequoia regeneration after a fire

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