Back to School

September 7, 2010

Welcome back to school, kids. It’s the first day that your teacher has set up this newfangled “interactive whiteboard” in...

Want to Reduce Disaster Losses? Keep Score.

September 7, 2010

by William Hooke, AMS Policy Program Director from the AMS Project Living on the Real World In the early 1900’s,...

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Want to reduce disaster losses? Keep score.

September 7, 2010

In the early 1900’s, my grandfather faced a challenge at work. Though only a teenager, he was foreman in a...

Fair Weather Flier

September 6, 2010

Nice Q and A in the Battle Creek Enquirer with National Weather Service meteorologist Brad Temeyer, of Sioux Falls, Iowa,...

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A Tale of Two (Real) Worlds

September 3, 2010

“Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.” – Dag  Hammarskjold In this post,...

Inside Earl

Inside Earl

September 3, 2010

NASA’s GRIP mission (Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes) is sending aircraft into Hurricane Earl, coming up with some wonderful imagery...

Do You Know Which Way the Wind Blows?

September 3, 2010

Anyone want to help these people with an answer?….Below is a post from Thursday on CASKA, the Chicago Area Sea...

New Tools for Hunter-Gatherers of Weather Data

September 2, 2010

A Monthly Weather Review paper in press by Otto Hyvärinen and Elena Saltikoff notes that the widespread availability of weather...

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Primum non nocere!

September 2, 2010

 “First, do no harm.” The origin of the precise phrase hasn’t been traced, but the sentiment of nonmaleficence (what a...

Time Out for Some…Froth

Time Out for Some…Froth

September 2, 2010

A break from serious thinking for a moment…. They got too close. Way too close. But thanks to Mike Smith...

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