N.M. Science
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If you like New Mexico’s current warm dry weather, you’ll be delighted for the next week
In the evolution of the science of meteorology, one of the early milestones was coming up with forecast tools that could beat what meteorologists call “the persistence forecast”. The idea... Read more »
Wednesday Bird Blogging: Bosque Restoration Edition
Canvasbacks, a red-headed immigrant duck that winters here, were back this morning. Army Corps of Engineers ecologist Ondrea Hummel was giving photographer Roberto E. Rosales and me a tour of... Read more »
NNSA taking a look at uranium project problems
Frank Munger reports that the National Nuclear Security Administration is taking a closer look at the design problems plaguing the Uranium Processing Facility (UPF), a multi-billion dollar project in Tennessee:... Read more »
Has Elephant Butte ever been this empty before?
Elephant Butte reservoir, in southern New Mexico, has very little water in, the result of two very dry years and more than a decade of below-average flows on the Rio... Read more »
Drought, dropping aquifers on the lower Rio Grande
Drought conditions are bad all over New Mexico, but in terms of impacts, things are probably the worst on the lower Rio Grande. As the AP’s Susan Montoya Bryan notes,... Read more »
on drought and Santa Anas – the full Chandler
In this morning’s column on the definition of drought, I drew a parallel between the skin-crawling angst of a New Mexico drought and the hot dry Santa Ana winds blowing... Read more »
Kirtland fuel spill meeting Nov. 27
Kirtland Air Force Base officials will hold their quarterly Citizens Advisory Board meeting next Tuesday (Nov. 27), with the ongoing efforts to monitor and clean up a massive jet fuel... Read more »
Maybe we shouldn’t call it “drought”
When a group of federal drought researchers invited me to speak at their workshop in Santa Fe back in 2006, I titled my talk “Maybe we shouldn’t call it ‘drought’”... Read more »
Judge rules against Datil water transfer
A state court today struck down a proposal to pipe groundwater from the high country of western New Mexico to the Rio Grande Valley. By not saying who, specfically, would... Read more »
around the tubes
Some links: Kay Matthews with a deep dive on the latest steps in the northern New Mexico Aamodt water settlement Some good news for a change on climate change –... Read more »
What US-Mexico water deal means for New Mexico
A deal between the United States and Mexico over Colorado River management seems distant from New Mexico’s water concerns. But with Santa Fe and Albuquerque now using imported Colorado Basin... Read more »
Where’d all the snow go?
The consensus view seems to be that last weekend’s storm, while it technically counts as our first real “winter storm” of the season, didn’t accomplish as much as hoped. Kerry... Read more »
