Living on the Real World
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Moonshots, weather-readiness, and other human aspirations.
Doug Hilderbrand co-chairs with Eileen Shea the AMS Board on Enterprise Communication. We owe the two of them thanks for...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Brian Bell’s forecasts for the weather enterprise
Many LOTRW readers may know Brian Bell, one of the more visionary and just-plain-interesting people in our community. Mr. Bell...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Evolving the National Weather Service. 7. Get your head on straight… and keep it there.
Then Ben-Hadad sent another message to Ahab: “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if enough...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Evolving the National Weather Service. 6. Water.
Continuing from the previous LOTRW posts… In the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the 1980’s and 1990’s, it was...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Evolving the National Weather Service. 5. Stakeholders
Continuing from the previous LOTRW posts… There are many reasons to like the NWS Weather-Ready Nation initiative, but perhaps the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Evolving the National Weather Service. 4. People.
“There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Evolving the National Weather Service. 3. What the last fifteen years have to tell us with respect to the technology piece.
…continuing from the previous LOTRW post… Now we find ourselves in 2015. It’s Groundhog Day. Déjà vu. The WSR88D’s, once...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Evolving the National Weather Service. 2. Technology and infrastructure.
“the war to end all wars” – British author H. G. Wells (referring to World War I). “This war, like...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Evolving the National Weather Service? Some reflections (from a distant mirror).
The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future.” – Theodore Roosevelt “This isn’t...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Holism: the first casualty in the climate-change war?
“In war, truth is the first casualty.” – attributed to various authors The recently-released papal encyclical on climate change calls...
