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21 January 2010
Tornado Develops Over Huntsville Thursday
While we were on air during the 5 PM newscast earlier this evening, a tornado developed just east of our studios. We followed it using our city camera on top of the Saturn 5 at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center here in Huntsville. Meteorologist Alan Raymond and I saw the flashes from transformers blowing almost immediately as we brought up the camera image, and knew we had a tornado …
The Real Uncertainties About Climate Change (and why Antarctica may have the answers.)
Two interesting articles out this week about Climate change and they both have connections to my visit to the South Pole last week. Stephen Schwartz at Brookhaven Nat. Labs. has a paper coming out in the AMS Journal of Climate asking why we have not warmed as much as expected with the rapid rise in greenhouse gases over the last century. Most researchers in the field believe that the climate …
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.