Murray-Darling Basin flows: #1 The data

  Start with the data, always.

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2019 snow depth prediction

TL;DR: The Spencers Creek¹ peak snow depth for 2019 will be 150 ± 44 cm.

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Blogging the systems

No I don’t — blog the Australian snow weather systems. I haven’t done that for a couple of years now, but I do tweet them at length, including threading what other wise people have to say about them.

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2018 snow depth prediction

TL;DR: The Spencers Creek¹ peak snow depth for 2018 will be 201 ± 42 cm.

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Mikado in MuseScore

This is a work-in-progress, probably never to be finished.

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Spencers Creek snow depth prediction model - mark V

As you may know, for many years I have attempted to predict the season peak snow depth at Spencers Creek¹, midway between Perisher Valley and Thredbo, NSW, using a simple multiple regression model based on well-known climatic modes and influences.

  It’s time for another rework. I’ve hit the thing fairly hard this time — for a relatively small improvement in absolute performance but I think a substantial gain in structure and understanding. As often occurs with such things, the . . . → Read More: Spencers Creek snow depth prediction model – mark V

Season 2017 roundup

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After one of the worst season starts on record (fifth-worst, on my assessment) 2017 morphed into a ripper, with the biggest high-altitude peak snow depth in 17 years

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Adding Copernicus

I’ve added the Copernicus ‘ERA-Interim’ global temperature series to all of the global temperature plots.

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Near real-time Yahoo stock quotes in Excel

Updated — now includes historical prices.

You may know that Yahoo Finance has for a long time provided near real-time global stock quotes via its website and via a web API service, which many have used as a convenient source for Excel data. There have been lots of VBA implementations and even a direct spreadsheet formula implementation (no VBA).

Unfortunately the API service was abused to the extent that some even purported to sell trading applications based around it (go . . . → Read More: Near real-time Yahoo stock quotes in Excel

Updating the global temperature graphs

The fuss recently about a fairly minor fix to the fairly ordinary estimate of global temperature change provided by satellite remote sensing has prompted some long-overdue action from me. I’ve updated and I hope improved all the global temperature graphs

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