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Daniel Swain
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Daniel Swain writes Weather West, a personal blog at weatherwest.com about science. Since 2014, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “ARkStorm 2.0: Climate change is increasing the risk of a California megaflood”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite Daniel Swain's blog as a go-to source on California weather, valued for in-depth explanations of weather phenomena and medium-term predictions. It is also cited for storm and flood history.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Home of the Weather West blog by Daniel Swain
Most-linked posts?
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-05-27
- ARkStorm 2.0: Climate change is increasing the risk of a California megaflood2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-12
- Increasing precipitation whiplash in twenty-first century California2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-04-23
- /archives/tag/ridiculously-resilient-ridge2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-20
What Hacker News says?
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/ - DCRainmaker is THE run/bike/swim tech reviewer. Extremely in depth reviews with lots of pictures of any and every major tech device that hits the fitness world. https://weatherwest.com/ - In depth explanations of mostly California weather phenomena and medium term predictions.
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on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”- pc · 2014-09-29
Submitted The Extraordinary California Drought of 2013-2014 as a story · 96 points
HN discussion According to this meteorologist “Drier-than-average winter still most likely outcome for most of California” https://weatherwest.com/archives/11748
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on “There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada”Submitted Near-record strength El Niño still on track to bring a wet California winter as a story · 56 points
HN discussionhttps://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/202... 'California has experienced increasingly severe autumn wildfires over the past several decades, which have exacted a rising human and environmental toll. Recent fire and climate science research has demonstrated a clear link between worsening California wildfires and climate change, mainly though the vegetation-drying effect of rising temperatures and s…
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on “Show HN: LA Wildfire Satellite Analysis”Submitted Near-record strength El Niño still on track to bring a wet California winter as a story · 10 points
HN discussionScience blog on related topics https://weatherwest.com/
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on “Hottest May in History for Texas”Submitted The southern California fire event was accurately forecast on Jan 4 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWhat's happening to all of the Earth's water? It is circulating differently. The most impact on the cascades are changes in the Pacific currents, for a while those currents have facilitated the existence of the "Ridiculously Resilient Ridge"[1] as water temperature differentials drive changes in pressure zones above them. Without the more typical Pacific current moderating the high pressure ridges along the coast, l…
Comment linking /archives/tag/ridiculously-resilient-ridge
on “The Tragedy of Iran’s Great Salt Lake”Submitted Increasing precipitation whiplash in twenty-first century California as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTwo possibly better links: https://weatherwest.com/archives/16626 https://www.usgs.gov/programs/science-application-for-risk-r... From a previous discussion on here, there were major floods in the Central valley in 1950. There is a USGS report here including some impressive pictures of the flooding despite the poor image quality. https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/wsp1137F The flood was caused by a series of wet,…
Comment linking /archives/16626
on “A ‘megaflood’ in California could drop 100 inches of rain, scientists warn”Submitted Rapidly Strengthening Pacific Storm as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's worth noting that there's going to be a water bond measure on California's ballot this November: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/08/14/ca... This is a ~$7 billion bond, although estimated total investment needs over the next 20 years are about 10x that mount so there will doubtless be other proposals. The drought affects the whole SouthWestern US, but since many HN readers are based in Calif…
Comment linking /archives/tag/ridiculously-resilient-ridge
on “Water Crisis: Wait Until the Aquifers Are Drained”Submitted Potentially historic summer storm event to unfold in SoCal this weekend as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis storm is going to be catastrophic for desert areas but probably just merely bad for the more coastal populated areas. Anyone in inland SoCal should be getting ready for rain unprecedented as far back as records go (150-200 years). btw, Weather West is always the best place to go for California weather -- there's nobody better on this than climate scientist Daniel Swain: https://weatherwest.com/
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on “Gov. Newsom declares state of emergency for southern California”Submitted ARkStorm 2.0: Climate change is increasing the risk of a California megaflood as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI thought about the ARkStorm prediction when I saw the forecast. https://weatherwest.com/archives/16626
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on “Incoming Potentially Catastrophic Storm for SF Area”Submitted Trend toward re-intensifying drought in western USA continues as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAn actual link would be good: https://weatherwest.com/archives/22404
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on “HN PSA: Bay Area folks: Storm inbound, check on your friends and family”Submitted Record heat, unprecedented lightning fire siege in Northern California as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dangerously intense, prolonged, and humid heatwave for most of California as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Increasing precipitation whiplash in twenty-first century California as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Atmospheric river to bring heavy rain to Northern California this weekend as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Ridiculously Resilient Ridge continues; California drought intensifies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Following record-wet October in NorCal, drier and warmer conditions to persist as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Increasingly extreme autumn fire conditions in California due to climate change as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Severe wildfire conditions will continue across California as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Insights into the Ridiculously Resilient Ridge: Why California Is So Dry as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Insights into the Ridiculously Resilient Ridge: Why California Is So Dry as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Powerful El Nino likely to bring heavy precipitation to California as a story · 1 points
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