National Climate Assessment Welcomes Your Comments
The US Global Change Research Program published its “US National Climate Assessment Objectives, Proposed Topics, and Next Steps” (also available...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Can this marriage be saved?
You can and should be forgiven if you can’t hearken back to the August 17th post, “We’re Earthlings, till death...
Art Gets Meteorological
Lawrence, Kansas, has been an epicenter of serious weather in the past–dating back at least to a killer tornado in...
The Rise of Mountain Meteorology
Mountains are already hard to miss, often hard to avoid, but in meteorology their prominence is only growing right now,...
How Much Was That Forecast Worth?
Despite the general good fortune that the storm stayed out at sea, there are plenty of grumblings about the cost...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Two hands for beginners! Another disaster-reduction policy.
Want to bring down the cost of future disasters? As we tackle the problem, instead of showing off, let’s use...
Welcome to the…Climate Zoo?
Astronomy has its Galaxy Zoo, in which citizen scientists across the internet–and hence the world–help professionals comb through millions of...
Snow Rollers
Thanks to George Taylor (Applied Climate LLC) for pointing out excellent photos of snow rollers taken in 2009 by Tim...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The real cost of disasters? Destruction of social fabric. (Or – just maybe – not.)
Late last week a colleague who had just started reading this blog and noted the passing reference to Hurricane Earl...
The Reality of Weather in Fantasy Sports
When it comes to playing fantasy sports, every advantage counts. For fantasy baseball player Andy Rice– an avid storm chaser...
