N.M. Science
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Continued uncertainty about New Mexico’s New Year’s storm
There’s a storm coming. Of that we can be reasonably confident. But how big, and where? That’s the latest forecast graphic from the National Weather Service’s Albuquerque office, capturing the... Read more »
Minnows and the Endangered Species Act: pulling a rabbit out of the hat?
At last week’s meeting of the Middle Rio Grande Endangered Species Collaborative Program’s executive committee, federal officials pulled a rabbit out of their hat. Sort of. As I explained in... Read more »
Updated: New Mexico storms coming. Could they offer drought relief?
update: 2 p.m. MST: Easy come, easy go, I guess. The afternoon precipitation forecasts are back to their usual droughty look for New Mexico: As I said this morning, “It’s... Read more »
Albuquerque’s warmest year in a century of record-keeping
2012 appears headed into the record books as the warmest year in Albuquerque in more than a century of weather records, according to the National Weather Service. Data through Dec.... Read more »
Rocky Mountain snow, as seen from space
I know you’ve been hearing a lot of whining here about the lackluster snowpack building in the mountains to the north. But in this holiday week, NASA shared a lovely... Read more »
White Christmas? I was just taunting you, Albuquerque
For the record, here’s what I wrote a week ago: Ah, but past statistics faded into irrelevance Monday morning when I called up the latest runs from the weather service’s... Read more »
A “snirty” Christmas for travelers
In the upper midwest, they have a term for that snow-mixed-with-dirt thing along the side of the road after a snowstorm: “snirt”. Based on the forecast, you could be seeing... Read more »
“Is this going to be another Klamath?”
One of the members of my water management brain trust, talking to me Friday about the rising tension over the Endangered Species Act, the Rio Grande Silvery Minnow, and water... Read more »
Whither the nuclear weapons complex
In addition to its effort to force continued work on a new plutonium lab building at Los Alamos, which I wrote about last week, the FY2013 congressional defense authorization bill... Read more »
Utah Nuke Waste Site Dead
The Skull Valley Goshute proposal to establish a storage site in Utah for high-level radioactive waste is dead, Judy Fahys reported last night in the Salt Lake Tribune. That’s relevant... Read more »
D’Agostino stepping down as head of NNSA
Tom D’Agostino announced today he’s stepping down as head of the National Nuclear Security Administration (the federal agency atop Sandia and Los Alamos labs). From his statement this morning: After... Read more »
The Tumbleweed Snowman is Back
Albuquerque’s tumbleweed snowman is back. The snowman, built each year by crews at the Albuquerque Metropolitan Arroyo Flood Control Authority, suffered damage in yesterday’s windstorm. But workers have completed repairs... Read more »
