From The New York Times: "BEIJING — One Friday more than two years ago, an air-quality monitoring device atop the United States Embassy in Beijing recorded data so horrifying that someone in the embassy called the level of pollution “Crazy Bad” in an infamous Twitter post. That day the Air Quality Index, which uses standards set by the United States Environmental … [Read more...]
12/29: A Perfect Snow in NYC
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...]
11/17-11/18: SPWS at Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair
SP Weather Station at the Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair November 17–18, 2012 Silver Spring Civic Center One Veterans Place Silver Spring MD The SP Weather Reports are coming to Pyramid Atlantic! This is the first year SPWS will participate in the Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair. We are sharing a booth with artist and SPWS co-founder Heidi Neilson. Fair … [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...]
Thunderstorm in D-minor
People of Philadelphia: visit an interactive thunderstorm! The giant new work by Chris Klapper and Patrick Gallagher is at Studio 2424; a thunderstorm contained within a series of large hand cast resin sculptures, each individual form is a unique instrument hanging 40 feet from the ceiling. Suspended just within reach and activated by touch, the viewer sets the symphony in … [Read more...]