By Andy Newman for The New York Times: The ideal city snowstorm, meteorological Platonists say, blankets the landscape without burying it, beautifies but does not burden, transforms and cocoons without paralyzing or even particularly inconveniencing. Such an event is expected to come our way on Saturday. Flakes should begin falling around 11 a.m., as a low pressure … [Read more...]
NASA GOES captures Hurricane Sandy
Amazing images of Hurricane Sandy courtesy of NASA GOES satellites: Video from NASA GOES online here. You can also buy a print of a NASA GOES image from 20x200 with net revenue to benefit the American Red Cross - just one of many ways to help out the recovery efforts, of course. … [Read more...]
Street Sensing: seeing tiny particles
If you're in San Francisco, check out SPWS weather interpreter Tim Dye's new project 'Street Sensing: seeing tiny particles', on Saturday, October 20 as part of a tech-art event in San Francisco at the Urban Prototyping exhibition. 'Street Sensing: seeing tiny particles' will use AirCasting to crowd source air quality measurements collected by citizens. Attendees will have a … [Read more...]
Happy Birthday Lewis Fry Richardson
Thanks to the Writer's Almanac: It's the birthday of physicist and psychologist Lewis Fry Richardson, born in Northumberland, England (1881), who was the first to apply mathematical techniques to predict the weather accurately. During WWI, Richardson served as a driver for the Friends' Ambulance Unit in France. During the intervals between transporting wounded soldiers … [Read more...]
Images of September 8th NYC tornadoes
From The New York Times: Radar images / commentary from the US National Weather Service here. … [Read more...]