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...]
‘Types of Weather’ exhibition in Germany
08.03.2013 - 19.05.2013 isolated showers - TYPES OF WEATHER From the website, thanks to google translate: The starting point of the exhibition "Chance Showers - forms of weather" is the surprisingly large number of current artists whose interest in the weather is fed by its complex connections with our immediate reality of life: in her oeuvre given concrete form and … [Read more...]
Out Now: ‘The Weather Observer’s Handbook’
From the Cloud Appreciation Society: We are very pleased to announce that ‘The Weather Observer’s Handbook’ by Stephen Burt is published today. The handbook provides a comprehensive, practical and independent guide to all aspects of making weather observations. It is ideal for both amateur observers looking for help in choosing their first weather instruments on a tight … [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...]
Weather (Book) Report: 6 shelves of wonder!
(note: we'll have a feature soon on Jane Marsching's Guest Lecture Saturday at the Queens Museum, but in the meantime...) A quick visual survey of the circulating weather section at the NYPL Science, Industry and Business Library: Interestingly, alarmist weather books are not at all limited to those centered on climate change. It seems it could be an entire literary … [Read more...]