N.M. Science
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Monsoon watch
That dose of rain across the Albuquerque metro area looks like it could be the real thing. I had 0.13 inch at my house, a mile northeast of the University... Read more »
“A Full Onset of the Monsoon”
With moisture rising and the right weather patterns for thunderstorms in New Mexico this week, the summer rains are coming.
Monsoon watch
When the monsoon won’t come to you, sometimes you have to go to the monsoon. For a piece I’m working on for next week on the return of fire to... Read more »
Monsoon watch
There is reason for hope. This map comes from the National Weather Service’s Hydrometeorological Prediction Service. It’s an attempt at showing how much rain will be falling across the country... Read more »
Monsoon watch
Monsoon moisture is pushing into southern Arizona. Here in New Mexico, not so much. The map shows dewpoints, a measure of the amount of moisture in the air. The higher... Read more »
At Hanford, now the schedule is behind schedule
We’ve written a lot in this space about the Department of Energy’s problems, especially at Los Alamos, in bringing it its big nuclear construction projects within planned budgets and schedules... Read more »
Monsoon watch
One of the big problems with thinking about our summer monsoon season is its enormous spatial variability. This afternoon, as I speak, there’s a thunderstorm popping over the Jemez Mountains,... Read more »
Monsoon watch
Take heart. There’s finally some good news on the monsoon front. When I wrote last week about this, I told Journal readers that there wasn’t much of anything to go... Read more »
Irrigators, fishers agree on trout releases
Amid New Mexico’s drought-driven water management woes, a ray of hope: The water agency that serves farmers in the middle Rio Grande Valley has begun a series of special water... Read more »
Quicksilver hearing in Albuquerque Thursday
Federal officials, considering the possibility of shipping 10,000 tons of toxic mercury to a site in southeast New Mexico, will take comment Thursday (6/28/2012) in Albuquerque on a study of... Read more »
Congressional Committee Concerned About LANL Radwaste Work
Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are worried about the slow pace of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s work to upgrade its radioactive liquid waste treatment plant: a project... Read more »
I’ll still call it the “VLA”
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s heroic effort to rename the Very Large Array without renaming the Very Large Array appears to be complete. (If you’ll recall there was a bit... Read more »
