http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/audio-video/audio/haacke-tyson.html The Artist as Weatherman: Hans Haacke's Critical Meteorology John A. Tyson, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, National Gallery of Art. Hans Haacke (b. 1936, Cologne) is one of the leading figures of conceptual art and one of the most important political artists working today. In 2013, … [Read more...]
Tide and Current Taxi expedition
On Saturday, May 18, at dawn, SP Weather Station partnered with Marie Lorenz's Tide and Current Taxi on a water-borne dérive in Jamaica Bay. We brought along maps of flight paths and Atlantic coast bird migration routes and, very loosely, let them guide our journey. Marie's blog entry gives a pretty great overview of the day. … [Read more...]
Happy World Meteorological Day
March 23 is WMO World Meteorological Day! Celebrate by viewing the World Weather Watch photo exhibition via flickr : Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer … [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...]
Big News Merger in the PWS World
After 17 years of aggregating data from Personal Weather Stations as an independent company, Weather Underground has been acquired by the Weather Channel. Some reactions... Slate.com "Whether [The Weather Channel] will entirely replace its own forecasts with Weather Underground’s BestForecast is not immediately clear. The predicitions are often substantially different. … [Read more...]