Record Cold Across Central Europe; New Zealand’s Bumper Snow Season; U.S. Rainfall Flat Since 1970; + Freezing The Air: Georgia Tech’s Absurd War On CO2
Record Cold Across Central Europe; New Zealand’s Bumper Snow Season; U.S. Rainfall Flat Since 1970; + Freezing The Air: Georgia Tech’s Absurd War On CO2
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21 Thoughts to “Record Cold Across Central Europe; New Zealand’s Bumper Snow Season; U.S. Rainfall Flat Since 1970; + Freezing The Air: Georgia Tech’s Absurd War On CO2”
I saw a comment from yesterday that warranted a response. I am the engineer who posted yesterday, and the question had to do with why there was no effective warning in the flooding disaster in central Texas.. Several factors contributed including the following.
1. Initial warnings were typical for the area and they were taken to mean that the areas that were more prone to flooding would likely flood including some low water crossings. This would not have indicated that camps and rv parks that did not typically flood, or may have never flooded, needed to be evacuated.
2. The weather service recognized in the early morning hours that the intensity and quantity of rainfall was much higher than had initially been predicted and upped the warning to an emergency. Even if that warning was received it very likely would not have resulted in evacuation of areas that had not previously flooded in the last 90-100 years. In fact, children in camps were not generally allowed to have phones and phone coverage is very spotty in the low areas of the hill country. Most of the victims were not aware of the flood until it actually entered their cabins or RV’s. Some awakened to their building actually being moved downstream.
3. A fireman in Hunt called for the dispatcher to issue a red alert at about 3:20 a.,m. However, the dispatcher said she had to get approval of a supervisor, and apparently that warning did not go out until 6 a.m., much too late.
I think there will be a state and regional response that will construct siren warnings throughout at least the Guadalupe River basin. This has become the deadliest river basin for flooding. Likely the effort will include some of the other river basins in central Texas but there was even significant flooding in San Angelo in West Texas from the same system.
I also suspect that AI can be used to factor rainfall events regarding intensity, location, and quantity and coupled with input from river flood gauges can provide earlier predictions of flooding sufficient to at least trigger early warnings to allow people to save their lives by moving to higher ground. In at least one case a husband and wife started their truck, it failed, then got in another truck with another camper, and it failed, before then being swept away with the wife being lost. I suspect they could have made it to higher ground if they had started that direction immediately rather than spending time on vehicles.
I apologize for the long post. Having dealt with hydrology for 50+ years I think this storm was likely a 1000 year storm. The question, now, since it has occurred, is will this now become the new revised 100 year storm event. If so, this would mean that all designs and flood plains would require adjustment and existing drainage structures would now be considered grossly under-designed. Or will it be considered as the Probable Maximum Storm event that normally only requires things such as the ability for a dam to pass that even in an emergency spillway?
Thank you for your detailed reply. But AI and sirens can’t help with someone who wants to boot the responsibility upstairs. Human error is increasing because the human race is being dumbed down. I suppose that will be one of the excuses for AI to take over.
The cause of the heavy monsoon rain may be that Rainmaker Technology Corporation used too much silver iodide for cloud-seeding on behalf of the South Texas Weather Modification Association.
Rainmaker denies that silver iodide has been used in Texas:
On July 2, two days before floods devastated communities in West Texas, a California-based company called Rainmaker was conducting operations in the area. Rainmaker was working on behalf of the South Texas Weather Modification Association, a coalition of water conservation districts and county commissions; the project is overseen by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. Through a geoengineering technology called cloud-seeding, the company uses drones to disperse silver iodide into clouds to encourage rainfall. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/the-texas-floods-cloud-seeding-maha-tech-thiel/
Rainmaker Technology Corporation develops new technology to create rain in dry areas:
Rainmaker Technology Corporation
Rainmaker provides water for farms, watersheds, and ecosystems, fortifying growth and stewarding the natural world.
Water scarcity is an existential problem, and we act accordingly. We iterate quickly and efficiently to solve one of the most important problems of our time.
Our team is rethinking the fundamentals of precipitation enhancement at the microphysical level to develop new cloud seeds that are more effective and environmentally friendly. https://www.rainmaker.com/
Texas is a monsoon rain forest where the trees have been cut down and cities built.
Isn’t it normal for heavy monsoon rains to occur in a rainforest?:
Before European settlement in the early 1600s, forests covered an estimated 1.023 billion acres of what is now the United States. The eastern portion of the country was heavily forested, while the Great Plains and western regions contained vast expanses of grasslands and shrubs.
Today, the U.S. has an estimated 765 million acres of forest land, covering about 33 percent of the country’s total land area. https://www.newsweek.com/america-forests-change-over-time-2041291
Actually there are MORE trees now then in 1700. BUT they are smaller trees not old growth like a Beech tree we had on our property…6 Foot diameter with +- 24 foot circumference and 100+ feet tall. Typical for trees in this area 80 years ago.
Hi J. Much appreciated commentary and the spaced paragraphs makes it an easy read.
I do, however, have difficulty deciphering what the very last sentence means.
Do you remember the monsoon rains of 1899?
Many people died in the heavy monsoon rains.
Is monsoon rain really that unusual in Texas?:
June 27–July 1, 1899: Rainstorm. A storm, centered over the Brazos River watershed, precipitated an average of 17 inches over 7,000 square miles. At Hearne, the gage overflowed at 24 inches; estimated total rainfall was 30 inches. At Turnersville, Coryell County, 33 inches were recorded in three days. This rain caused the worst Brazos River flood on record. Between 30 and 35 lives were lost. Property damage was estimated at $9 million. https://www.texasalmanac.com/articles/significant-weather-1700s-and-1800s
The younger generation did not experience the monsoon rains and the major floods during the 19th century.
There were several monsoon rains that created major floods in the years 1833, 1842 and 1913:
The Brazos basin has experienced numerous massive floods during recorded history, such as ones in 1833 and 1842. During those events the Brazos covered a swath six-miles-wide in some places, submerging the ground between Washington and present-day Navasota in the lower basin.
Another flood in 1913 caused the river to permanently change course, killed at least 177 people and caused more than $3.5 million in damage. Many of the deaths occurred in sparsely populated areas. It’s hard to imagine what the scale of the disaster would be today in these now-developed communities. https://brazos.org/about-us/news/news-room/resource-library/taming-a-river-calming-the-flood-prone-brazos
“You have come to a world without hate, without fear, without conflict, no war, no disease, no crime. None of the ancient evils. Landru seeks tranquility, peace for all, the universal good.
You will be absorbed. Your individuality will merge into the unity of good, and in your submergence into the common being of the body, you will find contentment, fulfillment. You will experience the absolute good.” I am Landru
Good old Star Trek!
My son told me he shut down the AI on his friends phone by asking a series of questions it could not answer.
That reminded me of a Star Trek episode in which the crew of the Enterprise shut down a main computer that was holding them prisoner by individually shorting out the androids that were connected to it by getting them confused.
Gee, I wonder what would happen if we all started messing with the AI on our cellphones at the same time?
To be correct, Central Texas has never been considered forestland–more commonly prairie land. However, in the area of heavy flooding, the land is rocky with generally little soil except in valleys. The area in which most of the heavy rainfall occurred is actually lightly populated, rocky, and with generally moderate to high slopes. There are areas of Texas that are more densely populate but this is not one of those areas. There is increasing population but the fact is that rainfall amounts and intensity were roughly twice what would have been expected for a 100 year storm event over a 24 hour period. This will become the rainfall of record in this region, a rainfall not having been approached by previous rainfall events.
I do not disagree with any comments–we do need to care for our world and we should have concerns for AI misused.
Also, the summer camps were built in a flood zone and it seems especially prudent to evacuate early where children are staying, even if the flooding never actually occurred.
Those of us who have lived anywhere near the Balcones fault area are aware of severe flash floods, being that those areas are some of the most flash flood prone areas in the country, if not the world.
Another issues are the water crossings in low lying areas around the flood zone. Most drownings occur when cars try to drive through flooded low water crossings. If you don’t leave the area in advance, you might leave by fast-moving water. Because every warning doesn’t result in a catastrophic flash flood, people sometimes get complacent.
Today was very warm in Scotland, likely due to the same weather set up that is keep central Europe very cold. The temperature in Aviemore, in the Highlands so rarely the hottest part of the country, reached 33.3 Celsius. The record high for Scotland is 34.8, I think this could of been beaten and the MSM will be all over it as “proof” we’re all doomed.
34.8 degrees was recorded in 2022 inside a walled garden i.e. a perfect heat trap. The previous record was set in a carpark, for some of that day there was an ice cream van parked in front of the weather station with it’s engine running. Obviously the Met Office is perfectly happy with both these values. Aviemore isn’t a particularly large town so the overall UHI effect might only be 1 degree but the weather station might be very badly sited.
Georgia Tech…that’s the same institution whose School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences the prominent climate realist Judith Curry used to be the chair of and a professor in, before she resigned from that position in 2017 due to her beliefs on climate.
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I saw a comment from yesterday that warranted a response. I am the engineer who posted yesterday, and the question had to do with why there was no effective warning in the flooding disaster in central Texas.. Several factors contributed including the following.
1. Initial warnings were typical for the area and they were taken to mean that the areas that were more prone to flooding would likely flood including some low water crossings. This would not have indicated that camps and rv parks that did not typically flood, or may have never flooded, needed to be evacuated.
2. The weather service recognized in the early morning hours that the intensity and quantity of rainfall was much higher than had initially been predicted and upped the warning to an emergency. Even if that warning was received it very likely would not have resulted in evacuation of areas that had not previously flooded in the last 90-100 years. In fact, children in camps were not generally allowed to have phones and phone coverage is very spotty in the low areas of the hill country. Most of the victims were not aware of the flood until it actually entered their cabins or RV’s. Some awakened to their building actually being moved downstream.
3. A fireman in Hunt called for the dispatcher to issue a red alert at about 3:20 a.,m. However, the dispatcher said she had to get approval of a supervisor, and apparently that warning did not go out until 6 a.m., much too late.
I think there will be a state and regional response that will construct siren warnings throughout at least the Guadalupe River basin. This has become the deadliest river basin for flooding. Likely the effort will include some of the other river basins in central Texas but there was even significant flooding in San Angelo in West Texas from the same system.
I also suspect that AI can be used to factor rainfall events regarding intensity, location, and quantity and coupled with input from river flood gauges can provide earlier predictions of flooding sufficient to at least trigger early warnings to allow people to save their lives by moving to higher ground. In at least one case a husband and wife started their truck, it failed, then got in another truck with another camper, and it failed, before then being swept away with the wife being lost. I suspect they could have made it to higher ground if they had started that direction immediately rather than spending time on vehicles.
I apologize for the long post. Having dealt with hydrology for 50+ years I think this storm was likely a 1000 year storm. The question, now, since it has occurred, is will this now become the new revised 100 year storm event. If so, this would mean that all designs and flood plains would require adjustment and existing drainage structures would now be considered grossly under-designed. Or will it be considered as the Probable Maximum Storm event that normally only requires things such as the ability for a dam to pass that even in an emergency spillway?
Thank you for your detailed reply. But AI and sirens can’t help with someone who wants to boot the responsibility upstairs. Human error is increasing because the human race is being dumbed down. I suppose that will be one of the excuses for AI to take over.
The cause of the heavy monsoon rain may be that Rainmaker Technology Corporation used too much silver iodide for cloud-seeding on behalf of the South Texas Weather Modification Association.
Rainmaker denies that silver iodide has been used in Texas:
On July 2, two days before floods devastated communities in West Texas, a California-based company called Rainmaker was conducting operations in the area. Rainmaker was working on behalf of the South Texas Weather Modification Association, a coalition of water conservation districts and county commissions; the project is overseen by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. Through a geoengineering technology called cloud-seeding, the company uses drones to disperse silver iodide into clouds to encourage rainfall.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/the-texas-floods-cloud-seeding-maha-tech-thiel/
Rainmaker Technology Corporation develops new technology to create rain in dry areas:
Rainmaker Technology Corporation
Rainmaker provides water for farms, watersheds, and ecosystems, fortifying growth and stewarding the natural world.
Water scarcity is an existential problem, and we act accordingly. We iterate quickly and efficiently to solve one of the most important problems of our time.
Our team is rethinking the fundamentals of precipitation enhancement at the microphysical level to develop new cloud seeds that are more effective and environmentally friendly.
https://www.rainmaker.com/
Texas is a monsoon rain forest where the trees have been cut down and cities built.
Isn’t it normal for heavy monsoon rains to occur in a rainforest?:
Before European settlement in the early 1600s, forests covered an estimated 1.023 billion acres of what is now the United States. The eastern portion of the country was heavily forested, while the Great Plains and western regions contained vast expanses of grasslands and shrubs.
Today, the U.S. has an estimated 765 million acres of forest land, covering about 33 percent of the country’s total land area.
https://www.newsweek.com/america-forests-change-over-time-2041291
Actually there are MORE trees now then in 1700. BUT they are smaller trees not old growth like a Beech tree we had on our property…6 Foot diameter with +- 24 foot circumference and 100+ feet tall. Typical for trees in this area 80 years ago.
I wonder how long it takes for a tree to grow to that size
I wonder why my question mark got chopped off?
I wonder why I’m still here?
Hi J. Much appreciated commentary and the spaced paragraphs makes it an easy read.
I do, however, have difficulty deciphering what the very last sentence means.
Thank you.
Do you remember the monsoon rains of 1899?
Many people died in the heavy monsoon rains.
Is monsoon rain really that unusual in Texas?:
June 27–July 1, 1899: Rainstorm. A storm, centered over the Brazos River watershed, precipitated an average of 17 inches over 7,000 square miles. At Hearne, the gage overflowed at 24 inches; estimated total rainfall was 30 inches. At Turnersville, Coryell County, 33 inches were recorded in three days. This rain caused the worst Brazos River flood on record. Between 30 and 35 lives were lost. Property damage was estimated at $9 million.
https://www.texasalmanac.com/articles/significant-weather-1700s-and-1800s
No but as usual with Humans we ignore History and ignore warnings by others.
The younger generation did not experience the monsoon rains and the major floods during the 19th century.
There were several monsoon rains that created major floods in the years 1833, 1842 and 1913:
The Brazos basin has experienced numerous massive floods during recorded history, such as ones in 1833 and 1842. During those events the Brazos covered a swath six-miles-wide in some places, submerging the ground between Washington and present-day Navasota in the lower basin.
Another flood in 1913 caused the river to permanently change course, killed at least 177 people and caused more than $3.5 million in damage. Many of the deaths occurred in sparsely populated areas. It’s hard to imagine what the scale of the disaster would be today in these now-developed communities.
https://brazos.org/about-us/news/news-room/resource-library/taming-a-river-calming-the-flood-prone-brazos
We will have this
“You have come to a world without hate, without fear, without conflict, no war, no disease, no crime. None of the ancient evils. Landru seeks tranquility, peace for all, the universal good.
You will be absorbed. Your individuality will merge into the unity of good, and in your submergence into the common being of the body, you will find contentment, fulfillment. You will experience the absolute good.” I am Landru
Good old Star Trek!
My son told me he shut down the AI on his friends phone by asking a series of questions it could not answer.
That reminded me of a Star Trek episode in which the crew of the Enterprise shut down a main computer that was holding them prisoner by individually shorting out the androids that were connected to it by getting them confused.
Gee, I wonder what would happen if we all started messing with the AI on our cellphones at the same time?
To be correct, Central Texas has never been considered forestland–more commonly prairie land. However, in the area of heavy flooding, the land is rocky with generally little soil except in valleys. The area in which most of the heavy rainfall occurred is actually lightly populated, rocky, and with generally moderate to high slopes. There are areas of Texas that are more densely populate but this is not one of those areas. There is increasing population but the fact is that rainfall amounts and intensity were roughly twice what would have been expected for a 100 year storm event over a 24 hour period. This will become the rainfall of record in this region, a rainfall not having been approached by previous rainfall events.
I do not disagree with any comments–we do need to care for our world and we should have concerns for AI misused.
Yes.
Also, the summer camps were built in a flood zone and it seems especially prudent to evacuate early where children are staying, even if the flooding never actually occurred.
Those of us who have lived anywhere near the Balcones fault area are aware of severe flash floods, being that those areas are some of the most flash flood prone areas in the country, if not the world.
Another issues are the water crossings in low lying areas around the flood zone. Most drownings occur when cars try to drive through flooded low water crossings. If you don’t leave the area in advance, you might leave by fast-moving water. Because every warning doesn’t result in a catastrophic flash flood, people sometimes get complacent.
People almost always get complacent, about almost everything. And rarely learn from the past.
Today was very warm in Scotland, likely due to the same weather set up that is keep central Europe very cold. The temperature in Aviemore, in the Highlands so rarely the hottest part of the country, reached 33.3 Celsius. The record high for Scotland is 34.8, I think this could of been beaten and the MSM will be all over it as “proof” we’re all doomed.
34.8 degrees was recorded in 2022 inside a walled garden i.e. a perfect heat trap. The previous record was set in a carpark, for some of that day there was an ice cream van parked in front of the weather station with it’s engine running. Obviously the Met Office is perfectly happy with both these values. Aviemore isn’t a particularly large town so the overall UHI effect might only be 1 degree but the weather station might be very badly sited.
Georgia Tech…that’s the same institution whose School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences the prominent climate realist Judith Curry used to be the chair of and a professor in, before she resigned from that position in 2017 due to her beliefs on climate.