Articles tagged "weather"

Looks like, we're in for nasty weather.

This is bad news for people who enjoy reasonable, pleasant weather, for farmers who prefer their livestock not keel over dead, and for fans of the element water.

With help from this archival government documentary.

If only Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.5 in Eb Major could cue up every time I get caught walking in the rain, which as of late has proven quite often.

On the night Sandy hit New York City, intrepid and often wacky filmmaker Casey Neistat went out on bikes with a friend and made an incredible video portrait of lower Manhattan like I’ve never seen it before.

Sandy, the Frankenstorm, may be nearly history, but the hurricane season is just hitting its stride. We’ve got until November 30, after all, to keep the hatches battened, and it’s anyone’s guess what kind of dervishes the mid-Atlantic will be cooking…

Stable isotopes in the water could help answer questions about how water is being moved around inside this giant storm system.

The Weather Channel — or Weather Underground or your TV weather person or your DIY forecasting buddy — pretty much just have what we have, which is the internet and the ability to access government-supplied data.

We might not be able to head those disasters off by fixing our climate situation--or, rather, we don’t want to--but at least we can do things to make the hellish forest fires of 2014 not quite the catastrophe they would be otherwise, just by expectin…

Hopefully you caught "Motherboard's post":motherboard.tv last Thursday about James Leng's very cool sculpture/weather data visualization art project, ""Point Cloud":http://vimeo.com/42896836." I was hoping to have a comment in there from the NOAA wit…

Perhaps chalk it up to lack of caffeine, but I've spent a cool 30 minutes here trying to think of a good metaphor or statistic that might point to how insanely complex weather on Earth is -- the near-infinitely vast number of variables and interactio…

Ever since CERN found the Higgs boson, they seem to just be showing off their giant science brains just for fun. A few weeks ago, the European megalab hosted American "Congress folk and Astronauts":http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57479585/gabriel…

We knew this was coming. The snowless winter and the sloppy spring were inevitably the opening acts for the ruthlessly, brutally hot summer that we're currently suffering through. Now, as global warming experts mutter "I told you so" under their brea…

TV weatherpeople seem like such a goofy anachronism these days that I forget they even still exist until I'm in a motel room in some small town somewhere watching the local 10 o'clock news and, hey, there's someone calling themselves a meteorologist

Most years, January sucks. It's just so cold. This year's been different: January was host to a heat wave that broke over 1,500 daily high temperatures, according to the website “Climate Central":http://www.climatecentral.org/news/will-the-real-old-m…

One of the easiest things to put supercomputing into perspective has got to be hurricanes, or even weather in general. You've surely seen that neat hurricane (tropical cyclone) track laid out along the Atlantic coast on every news station and weather…

_NYC and the East Coast finally cools off a bit today. Sorry for everyone else._ h3. Zero: "Heat kills 20":http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/07/23/eveningnews/main20082550.shtml (CBS NEWS) h3. One: "Meanwhile, the weather on Saturn":http://w…