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26 February 2009
The Most Distant Man Made Machine
When I hear a scientist, talking about some astronomical object, and they say something is (for example) 8 billion miles away, I cringe. No doubt, the reporter asked for the distance in miles, or kilometers, because that unit of distance is familiar to most people. Does it really tell you anything? I say no. Yes, it tells you it is very far away, but nothing much more than that. To really understand these distances, …
1 September 2008
More Trouble Brewing In The Mid-Atlantic
Looking at the satellite imagery this evening is a scary prospect. Hannah is now a hurricane east of the Bahamas. The numerical weather prediction (NWP) guidance brings it into Savannah or S. Carolina as a minimal hurricane by Friday afternoon. A new tropical storm has formed in the middle of the Tropical Atlantic. This system looks very healthy, and is now named Tropical Storm Ike. I suspect it will become …
31 August 2008
Hurricane Update (video)
I have a screencast update on Hurricane Gustav. It was recorded at 12:30 am (0530Z). I’m still getting used to this software, and it will get better. This is a chance for you to get an in depth look at what I am seeing in the maps as I go through the forecast process. Video is here: GUSTAV UPDATE On the brighter side of things. Meteorological Summer ended at midnight!! …
29 July 2008
No, it doesn't rain more on Saturday- It's Wednesday!
Admit it. Sometime in the past you have complained that it always seems to rain on the weekend. In the back of your mind though, you told yourself that it really doesn’t rain more on any one day of the week. Right??? WRONG! (If your in the Southeast U.S. anyway.) Seems that a group of scientists decided to test a theory that it should rain more during the latter half …
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.