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MacDonald: NOAAs 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Forecast

May 27, 2025 Steve MacDonald

The sky is blue, water is wet, and each year, about this time, the ‘ Grok reviews NOAA’s annual hurricane predictions. It’s not that we’re overly interested in hurricanes, though you’d be hard pressed to prove otherwise. There are over 100 articles in recent years on the subject, but for a good reason. The science. … Read more

Hurricane Season is Almost Over – So … How’d That Go?

October 31, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Hurricanes are a pillar of the climate fearmongering community, so we tend to spend (perhaps too much) time on them. We think it matters. The conquest of American liberty is paved with things like government control of health care and energy (through climate policy), and 2024 was supposed to be the year the earth got … Read more

While Scaremongering CO2 NOAA (Unintentionally) Admits No Correlation to Sea Level Rise … or Fossil Fuels

April 26, 2024 Steve MacDonald

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Climate Cult’s got some new problems to address. A reliable government advocate for the fossil-fuels-drive-the-apocalypse narrative just kicked their scientific consensus in the McNuggets – twice.

Temperature Anomaly Voodoo and The Scorching Hot September Narrative

October 14, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Last week, while eulogizing the collapse of another hurricane season – during a super hot summer narrative season – I hinted at the latest caterwauling by the climate cult. OMG, September was so darn hot; it’s a record. Hardly.

Math is Hard: The BS Behind NOAA’s Billion Dollar Climate Disaster Benchmark

October 5, 2023October 5, 2023 Steve MacDonald

The media tried to sell July as hotter than anything ever without acknowledging that the temperature record we have proves that it is a lie or that there is no temperature record for much of the world or its existence. There is no scientific way to support the assertion.

So, Global Warming Makes Cyclones Putter About the Ocean Rarely Reaching Land?

October 4, 2023 Steve MacDonald

With a few weeks left and only one CAT3 US landfall in 2023, the Climate Cult must be beside itself: all the boiling hot ocean water and only one landfall. The news gets worse. Nothing is coming (anytime soon) to save their narrative.

Guess What’s Missing From NOAA’s Temperature Anomaly Record – Evidence of a Climate Emergency

September 15, 2023 Steve MacDonald

The media has a problem. It continues to publish headlines prognosticating our climate doom, but if you look at NOAA’s Average US Temperature Anamoly Record (we’ll call it “the science™”), you won’t find one.

Atlantic Throws CAT 5 Hurricane Lee Toward the Eastern US

September 8, 2023September 8, 2023 Steve MacDonald

There are currently two storms making their way across the Atlantic. Lee (currently a CAT 5 hurricane) and Margot (Tropical Storm). The estimated track for Margo suggests she will wander north away from land, but Lee is headed straight for us.

NOAA’s Temperature Anomaly Data for July (Science) vs. Boiling (Science Fiction)

August 13, 2023 Steve MacDonald

NOAA’s Temperature Anamoly Data for July (Science) vs. Global Boiling (Science Fiction)

NOAA is not an honest broker when it comes to the question of climate science. Historical data is tampered with constantly – either massaged or disappeared. So let’s look at the July update of the Contiguous US temperature anomaly with that in mind.

It Was Not the Wettest July in NH History Nor the Hottest

August 12, 2023 Steve MacDonald

NOAA’s July update is out, and the first thing I checked was the statewide average precipitation. We got a lot of rain in July of 2023. The statewide average was 8.61 inches, more than double the 100-year average. But it did not set a record.

It’s Almost August and The Hurricane Forecast is in Trouble

July 28, 2023 Steve MacDonald

June was a bust, and July is not helping if you NOAA what I mean. Hurricane activity so far – considering all the hyperbolic ranting about global warming and super-heated oceans, has been sparse. A handful of ‘disturbances,’ no hurricanes, and only two tropical storms, neither of which has amounted to anything.

ICYMI The Atlantic Hurricane Season Is Almost One Month Old, And So Far …

June 29, 2023 Steve MacDonald

We’ve had three named storms in June. Arlene and Bret didn’t get very far, and while Cindy managed to rise to the level of a Tropical storm, she gave up a few days ago just north of the Dominican Republic.

We’re Only Ten Days Into June and NOAA’s Summer Temp and Precip Trial Balloon is Losing Altitude

June 11, 2023 Steve MacDonald

You’ll have heard the “news.” Hyperbolic predictions for another El Nina summer. My past reporting, and I’m no expert, suggests there’s no discernable pattern for temperature or precipitation even as that itty-bitty trace gas, CO2, has claimed a few parts per million.

Since Skip Mentioned NOAA and Drought… There’s No Evidence Connecting CO2 and Drought (Or NOAA and Predictions)

May 20, 2023 Steve MacDonald

A few hours ago, Skip shared NOAA’s predictions for the summer weather – above Average temps and normal or slightly above for precipitation. And this is where I remind everyone how bad NOAA is at this.

Data Point – NOAA’s 2023 Summer Weather Projections

May 20, 2023 Skip

The entire National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report can be seen here. It looks like El Nino is also about to start its cycle (the flip side being La Nina) and last through the rest of the year. For the Northeast, it looks like we’re going to have a high chance of having above … Read more

Government Agency Tries to Abrogate the 4th Amendment – Fifth Circuit Court Spanks Them Hard

April 6, 2023April 5, 2023 Skip

In W. Virginia vs EPA SCOTUS decided that the EPA had gone well past its authorizing legislation in demanding that it could regulate CO2 emissions even though CO2 was never in that legislation.

2023 Prediction: Drought Headlines Across the Region Regardless of the Weather

May 3, 2023March 29, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Have you noticed that no matter what the weather does, we find ourselves inundated with reports of extreme weather, and it’s all your fault? So how long before “extremely” pleasant, mild, or average weather will be deemed a sign of the climate apocalypse?

NOAA Predicted a Mild/Drier Winter: Record Snowfall Closes Yosemite Natl. Park For Foreseeable Future

March 2, 2023March 2, 2023 Steve MacDonald

NOAA Predicted a Mild/Drier Winter as Record Snowfall Closes Yosemite Natl. Park For Foreseeable Future

Grant-hungry Climate Cultists can code computer models that auger global conditions years or decades from now, but they can’t predict this. Yosemite got so much snow this winter they closed the park on Feb 25th and for the foreseeable future.

NOAA’s Updated Tide Gauge Data Show No Sea Level Rise at NH Coast For The Past 10-12 Years

May 21, 2023February 9, 2023 Steve MacDonald

The Climate Cult won’t like this news much. NOAA recently updated its Tide Gauge data. What post-ice age rise in sea level there is, continues at a mere few millimeters per year. There is no evidence of the tipping point acceleration nonsense peddled by the Planeteers.

Exposing the Fraud: They Make Climate “Fudge” Over at NOAA, Too!

November 22, 2022 Steve MacDonald

Science used to be about comparing reality to your theory. These days it is about reshaping the perception of reality until it proves your theory. Global Warming (dba: climate change) is an excellent example. With the earth refusing to satisfy any of their predictions, the experts have taken to tampering with data.