New Warnings, New Words
National Weather Service offices in Missouri and Kansas recently initiated an experiment testing new tornado warnings that combine more specific...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Move NOAA satellite acquisition to NASA?
Maybe not CJS’ best idea. Looking for bi-partisanship in the Congress? Of course we are. America faces big problems. We’ve...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The Titanic…a poster child for Learning from Experience…and for Repetitive Loss
100 years ago last night, the passenger liner Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank two hours...
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Tornadoes in Norman: near Ground Zero.
Yesterday afternoon a tornado ripped through Norman, Oklahoma, doing what tornadoes do best; hopscotching along and ripping up the place...
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(one more in a series of) Lessons from my daughter
“Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you, no matter what. If you don’t listen eagerly to the...
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Resurrection
For the past week, the WAS*IS community has been mourning the termination of NOAA support for that program as such....
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Consequential weather
For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want...
The Revolution Needn't Stop Now
In 2005 researchers from NCAR and the University of Colorado decided to change the weather community. They started a program...
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WAS*IS…like Camelot…once was…and will live on
Google WAS*IS and that first entry looks really intriguing. It’s entitled NCAR – Weather and Society*Integrated Studies…and the little snippet...
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DFW Airport, hail, and repetitive loss
We’ve seen this tragedy before. Storms bearing hail and a spawning a dozen tornadoes tore through the Dallas-Fort Worth area...
