21 May 2013
The Oklahoma Tornado: Some Facts and Pictures
First of all, this tornado was not the biggest and strongest tornado ever recorded on Earth, as one Oklahoma City weather-caster said. We don’t know the wind speeds yet, and until then it cannot be given an EF Scale rating. I’ve seen some things (on the video of the damage) that make it clear that this was very likely an EF 4, and I’ve seen one thing that makes me …
20 May 2013
At Least 37 Dead in Catastrophic Tornado In Oklahoma City Metro (Update 1)
Devastation in Moore (Suburb of OKC). This tornado was 14 years to the month after the May 3, 1999 EF 5. It passed very nearly over the same area. Below is from NWS Norman: Below is the radar image showing a large “Debris Ball” being picked up by the radar. Indications from radar is that this may have been an EF 5 and devastation looks as bad as May 99. …
18 May 2013
99% of Scientific Papers Agree On Climate Threat.
My friend John Cook, (an Australian Physicist who runs the superb website Skeptical Science) is the lead author of a paper in the AGU journal Geophysical Research Letters that has gotten worldwide attention this past week. Not because the findings are a surprise to the science community, but because the public is surprised! THE GREAT AMERICAN DISCONNECT Dr. Ed Maibach at the George Mason University Center for Climate Change knows exactly how bug a …
17 May 2013
Thunderstorms and Cities: Is there a connection?
Guest Post from Bob Ryan Meteorologist for WJLA TV in Washington DC (This post appeared on the WJLA Weather Blog) Are cities changing summer thunderstorms? This is a follow-up blog to a story I had on our 11PM news Tuesday May 14. You can see the actual story below but I wanted to expand a few things beyond 1 minute and 30 seconds. Here’s the tease :>). Do you live in …
16 May 2013
CHARGES DROPPED!
It still leaves one with serious concerns about the critical thinking skills of the administrators in the Bartow County school system.
15 May 2013
Circumscribed Halo over Ocean City In Maryland On Tuesday
Correction: Hat tip to Daniel Linek who spotted my mistake. This is a CIRCUMSCRIBED Halo. Not a Circumzenithal Arc . See here: http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/circum.htm The title to this post has also been corrected. You can read more about this on the great Atmospheric Optics site: http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/cza.htm I saw one in Greenland (and at the South Pole for a few seconds). The bottom band I believe is a circumhorizon arc.
14 May 2013
Global Cooling Is A Silly Myth
John Cook over at Skeptical Science has produced an excellent video, that explains why anyone who telling you the climate has stopped warming, or that the planet is now cooling is wrong. Utterly wrong. It’s in the same league as HAARP and Chem-trails. This video comes out in the same week that the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by William Happer and Harrison Schmidt that contained all the usual canards. All of …
11 May 2013
The Turbulence of Van Gogh and the Labrador Shelf Current
This is a guest post by Andreas Muenchow at Icy Seas. Vincent Van Gogh painted his most turbulent images when insane. The Labrador Current resembles Van Gogh’s paintings when it becomes unstable. There is no reason that mental and geophysical instability relate to each other. And yet they do. Russian physicist Andrey Kolmogorov developed theories of turbulence 70 years ago that Mexican physicist applied to some of Van Gogh’s paintings such as “Starry Sky:” Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Sky” painted in June 1889. …
10 May 2013
The Future Of Weather Forecasting Is Under Construction
Every summer, thousands of people drive out to Chincoteague in Virginia to see the beautiful beach, wild ponies, and the stunning National Wildlife Refuge. To get there, they drive around the long NASA runway at the Wallops Island Flight facility, and you can’t help noticing the cluster of big satellite dishes. If you’ve been there, you probably have wondered just what all those dishes are for. Meteorologists already know, and you’re about to find …
8 May 2013
Has Voyager One Left The Heliosphere?? Maybe Not, But It’s Close.
A bit late on spotting this bit in case you have not seen it: Voyager 1 has entered a new region of space, sudden changes in cosmic rays indicate 20 March 2013 AGU Release No. 13-11 For Immediate Release WASHINGTON – Thirty-five years after its launch, Voyager 1 appears to have travelled beyond the influence of the Sun and exited the heliosphere, according to a new study appearing online today. …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.
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