The legend is in the lower left-hand corner of the map. Extensive flooding is possible in northwest Oregon, including the Portland area. Please also note the area where freezing rain is forecast in western Minnesota and the eastern Dakotas (orange).  Extreme Wind Conditions Forecast near Denver With Gusts Around 100 mph. Power outages are likely! Turbulence likely on takeoff and landing at DIA.  Here are the NWS watches/warnings/advisories as of 11:40pm Thursday:  Color code: Bright green = flood warning Magenta = wildfire conditions favorable warning Pink = winter storm warning Gold = high wind warning  Dark green = flood watch Sand = wind advisory Purple = winter weather advisory  Gray = fog advisory 

From the New Testament: I thought of that passage in the Gospel when I heard the news about Greg and his family this morning.  NASCAR racer Greg Biffle and his family were killed in a plane crash in North Carolina today. I am surprised by the number of people who are commenting that Biffle did more than any government agency for the people of North Carolina.  May they rest in peace. 

NCAR's headquarters on Table Mesa near Boulder, Colorado. Courtesy of Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr.  The Trump Administration has proposed to shut down National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) located in the Rocky Mountain foothills (specifically, Table Mesa) near Boulder, Colorado. The usual suspects are furious or think it is "past time." The issue, as I see it, is that NCAR was originally set up to be the nation's premier institution of applied  meteorological research:   thunderstorm safety, and that type of thing. Unfortunately, just a few years after its creation, it was "captured" by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) -- which changed its focus that atmospheric scientists call "basic" research. An example was (and this is real) how much carbon dioxide is released every time a bee farts?  While there is nothing wrong with basic research, we have an imbalance in the U.S. where too much tax money goes to basic research a...

Cooling the earth likely equals stronger storms and other unintended consequences. Geoengineering is a terrible idea. 

This evening's sunset. 

The stuff that never falls anymore falling at my home.   In spite of the Big Climate and Big Media (same thing!) trying to gaslight us last week into believing that "no mainstream media ever reported snow was going away," here is the first (year 2000 from Great Britain's Independent ) headline proclaiming just that.  Given the absurdity of this article, I did a screen capture of it at the time, but I didn't grab the entire article because I mistakenly thought The Independent would have the ethics to leave the article, which quoted climate scientists such as Dr. David Viner, in their online library. Nope!  On November 30, in this space, I asked the question, Why Don't Incorrect Forecasts Dissuade Climate Alarmists?  Little did I know that 48 hours later another round of gaslighting would begin.  More unmentionable, impossible stuff falling at my home. Evidently, it never occurs to the alarmists that correcting their (all too numerous) errors would help  the...

The Reiners were found murdered in their home this evening. The full story is here . May they rest in peace.