For years the Weather Channel has developed a cult following for the music played during its "Local on the 8s." The channel's first CD release "The Weather Channel Presents Smooth Jazz" stormed the music charts when it was released last fall, hitting number one on Billboard's Jazz compilation chart. In this WNYC soundcheck installment, Weather Channel music programmer Brian … [Read more...]
Tornado: Brooklyn, Staten I.
This old news: First week in August, 2007. NEW YORK (CBS) ― What was thought to be a violently windy thunderstorm that plowed through Brooklyn Wednesday morning turned out to be a weather event of historical proportions. Full article and also here … [Read more...]
Snow in Baghdad
Friday January 11, 2008. BBC: Snow has fallen in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, for the first time in living memory - though it mostly melted into puddles on touching the ground. People came out on to the streets to watch and some Iraqis said it was the first time they had seen such weather other than in films. … [Read more...]
Meeting – Jan 13th
SP Weather Station Meeting Minutes 13 January 2008 Present: Natalie Campbell, Kim Fisher, Dan Larson, Heidi Neilson Proceedings: -Meeting called to order 11:45 a.m. by general agreement -Meeting agenda to follow ‘SP Weather Station Thoughts + Planning’ ad hoc memo-list distributed by Heidi to collaborators in days prior to meeting -Item 1. Wind Sock. Necessity … [Read more...]
solastalgia
From Wired magazine issue 16.01 [online (reproduced here in full, as it has been noticed that Wired articles online tend to disappear)] by Clive Thompson 12.20.07 Clive Thompson on How the Next Victim of Climate Change Will Be Our Minds Australia is suffering through its worst dry spell in a millennium. The outback has turned into a dust bowl, crops are dying off at … [Read more...]