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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (936415)5/23/2016 7:44:24 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 1575627
 
The state climatologist is professor at TAMU. I go to the Offices website and see these references to past news releases:

Three Month Drought Outlook

  • Texas Mean Annual Precipitation (1981-2010)

  • Storms Could Weaken Texas Drought

  • Winter Outlook for Texas Drought: Limber Up Those Fingers- September 28, 2012

  • The Year With No Winter - March 30, 2012

  • The 2011 Texas Drought - October 31, 2011

  • Terrible News: Texas Drought Could Last Until 2020 - September 29, 2011

  • Texas Drought Officially the Worst Ever - August 4, 2011

  • Drought Scorches Texas and the Record Books - July 6, 2011
  • http://climatexas.tamu.edu/


  • Note the TX drought could last till 2020 story from 2011.

    Here's info from the same offices facebook page:








    Office of the Texas State Climatologist
    May 16 at 10:54am ·

    Drought Update: The Lone Star State is Severe Drought (D2) free!

    Overall the areas of D0 and D1 drought have reduced since the last post. Now D1 is just confined to a small area within Eastern Panhandle. There was a reduction of D0 in the Panhandle. New D0 areas were added in Deep South Texas and near the coast. West Texas' D0 areas moved around some from the previous post.





    facebook.com

    The state climatologist seems to be obsessed with drought. Have to page back to 2015 to find a mention of rainfall:








    Office of the Texas State Climatologist
    December 7, 2015 ·

    The top 10 driest years in Texas is dominated by 2011 when Texas was in a severe drought throughout the year. The extraordinary amount of rain in 2015 has landed itself two stations in the top 10 wettest years in Texas. With 3 weeks still left in the year and a wet winter forecasted, there is a chance 2015 could add another station to the list or have the current stations move up in the rankings.





    BTW the state climatologist has held the job since 2000. Was appointed by Gov. Bush.

    ....

    On December 22, 2009, Nielsen-Gammon wrote a detailed analysis of the erroneous projected date of melting of Himalayan glaciers in the Working Group II section of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report which said that "the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate." This had already been controversial in India, and the error had been found by J. Graham Cogley, a glaciologist in the Department of Geography at Trent University, Ontario. The story had been covered by BBC News but had not at that time gained wider publicity. Nielsen-Gammon's article identified and documented further details of the sources of the error. [2]

    Nielsen-Gammon earned an S.B. (Earth and Planetary Sciences), S.M. (Meteorology), and Ph.D. (Meteorology), all from MIT. Both Kerry Emanuel and Richard S. Lindzen were on his Ph.D. committee. [1]
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