On March 7, 2009,
TornadoVideos.net (TVN) launched the beta version of their
Live Streaming system. It's an interactive map that tracks each member of the TVN team as they criss-cross the country chasing storms, complete with live video. You can
sign up (main page, top left: "Chase notifications") to be alerted when a chase is in progress.
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posted by nitsuj
on Mar 25, 2009 -
8 comments
Weather History Offers Insight Into Global Warming. Weather History Offers Insight Into Global Warming. The problems that often haunt other weather records — the station is moved, buildings are constructed nearby or observers record data inconsistently — have not arisen here because so much of this place has been frozen in time. The weather has been taken (at
Mohonk House, [map] )
in exactly the same place, in precisely the same way, by just a handful of the same dedicated people since Grover Cleveland was president... That extremely limited number of observers greatly enhances the reliability, and therefore the value, of the data. [more inside]
posted by KokuRyu
on Sep 16, 2008 -
11 comments
National Data Buoy Center (Google cache), "the premiere source of meteorological and oceanographic measurements for the marine environment" in the U.S., is located at the
NASA Stennis Space Center on the Mississippi gulf coast, is a primary source of hurricane observational data, and is currently
offline. At present, the U.S. spends only $50 million annually on ocean observations of vital socio-economic impact. The latest
national commission for ocean policy recommended $4 billion annually, including the construction of a distributed, disaster-proof,
national ocean observing system, as a component of a
global system. The previous ocean commission report in 1969 resulted in the formation of
NOAA and the passage of the
Coastal Zone Management Act. Will Congress act? The E.U.
has.
posted by 3.2.3
on Aug 31, 2005 -
6 comments
RealClimate is a blog written by nine working climatologists from around the world (all experts in their field), focusing on explaining climate science, providing context to current reports in the mainstream media, and rebutting the fallacious arguments of carbon lobby hacks. (
via World Changing)
posted by stbalbach
on Dec 10, 2004 -
6 comments
So how cold is it on New Hampshire's Mount Washington, where hurricane force winds blow 104 days out of the year?
Really freaking cold. The Observatory's
website is a great resource for weather-geeks, and the interns have their own
blog.
posted by PrinceValium
on Jan 16, 2004 -
4 comments
It's big, it's bad, and it's coming your way. Beware Bonnie! No, no, wait. Hide from Hanna! Hmm, nope. Run from Rene! Geez, this
naming thing isn't easy. How do you
name a tropical storm? Should the name be masculine or feminine? Should it roll off the tongue with ease or be a mouthful? Are there some names you
can't use? If a tropical storm was closing in on your neighborhood, what would
you call it?
posted by debralee
on Sep 12, 2002 -
10 comments
More than you ever wanted to know about
snow, from the physics of formation to just priddy pictures.
[Link via
CuriousLee]
posted by Su
on Jan 29, 2002 -
7 comments
Weatherman faces up to six months. Rio de Janeiro Mayor Cesar Maya has asked prosecutors to seek charges against Luiz Carlos Austin, claiming his weather forecast was irresponsible. The city's acting chief prosecutor, said he would likely charge Austin with sounding a false alarm, which is punishable by up to six months in prison.
Was it really irresponsible to report that the storm could hit?
And who listens to weathermen anyway? I say if you want to find out what the weathers going to be like, stick your head out the window. Major storm warnings are the only things I
want to hear about.
posted by mikhail
on Jan 5, 2002 -
5 comments
Scientific backlash for warming theorists -- High clouds over the western tropical Pacific Ocean could significantly reduce the estimates of future global warming now being put forward by IPCC's computer models of the Earth's climate. And, in a newly published
interview, MIT's Dr. Richard S. Lindzen describes the Kyoto Treaty on climate change as "absurd". Backlash begun?
posted by frednorman
on Mar 6, 2001 -
7 comments
