Even The National Weather Service Says Hayhoe Is Talking Tripe
Katharine Hayhoe tells us “our weather (in Lubbock) is becoming much more extreme”.
So what does the National Weather Service say?
They have produced the following graph of annual precipitation in Lubbock.
On their website they make the following comment.
The horizontal line across the graph below is a 30 year running average of the record, which doesn’t show any notable trend. In looking at the graph, it appears that the first 40 years of record show more year to year variability and include a disproportionate number of very wet and very dry years when compared to the last 40 years of records.
They also show another graph, commenting :-
The graph below is a different way of showing the same precipitation data for Lubbock. It shows the annual variance from the long term average, which is 18.56 inches. The dashed blue line is a 6 year moving average. That 6 year moving average reached its most notable low in the 1950s. The largest difference from normal was 21.99 inches above normal in 1941. The greatest negative departures were 9.83 inches below normal in 1917 and 9.75 inches below in 2003. Again, the records show more variability in the early years.
Katharine needs to decide whether she wants to be an advocate for renewable energy or a serious scientist. She cannot be both.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
WOW!
That is absolutely wet compared to where I grew up:
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/vef/climate/figure5.php
But 18 inches would be considered dry compared to where I live now, with an annual average of 48 inches.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mrx/?n=tysclimate
That comes out to about twelve times the average in Las Vegas
I found it interesting that NOAA does not have a standard method for distributing data. I could not find a graph for Knoxville area.
I have found this for Knoxville, Mike. Since 1961 the 19 heaviest rain events were all before 1995 and most of those were before 1980.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mrx/research/climo/table4.php
Seeing how Knoxvile was first settled in the 1700s, I would expect a longer history than that! 😉
My relatives settled just north of Knoxville about 1750, as far as I can tell.
Are they still there?
They are still buried there and I now live North East of Knoxville. I visited the farm the family owned during the Civil War, the location of the trading post that an ancestor built when they first started moving into the region, my mother’s grandparent’s farm, and the farm where my mother grew up. All within a few miles of each other.
My fathers family farm is now under Norris Lake, but My father’s grandmother grew up within 4 miles of where I now live.
When my brother came to visit we visited all the cemeteries out relatives are buried in. He is into genealogy.
My wife is too. One branch of her Scottish ancestors emigrated to Quincy and one relative now lives some up in Wisconsin.
She is also related somehow to William McMaster Murdoch, First Officer on the Titanic!
You got me on that reply. When you replied “My wife is to”, the first thing to mind was buried in a cemetery North of Knoxville! 😉 Then I realized you were commenting about the genealogy thingy. 🙂
Excellent. Good work Paul.