Collaborate Disseminate
Weather can have a significant impact on transport and operations of all kinds, especially those at sea or in the air. This makes it a deeply important field of study, …read more Continue reading Weather in Wartime: The Importance of British Meteorology in WWII
With summer just underway here in North America, it may seem like a strange time to talk about snow. But when you live in North Idaho, winter is never very …read more Continue reading Know Snow: Monitoring Snowpack with the SNOTEL Network
What band of idiots would do this damage to the data pooling of meteorological data, just to make a buck? Ajit Varadaraj Pai, that’s who… The first (that I can recall) Federal Communications Commission Chairman that’s for sale to the highest bidder…. Continue reading FCC To Auction Wireless Spectrum That Will Interfere With Weather Data Collection
Following on from my C64 hacking days, but in parallel to my BBS Hacking, this final part looks at my early hardware hacking and creation of a new class of meteorological research radar…
Ever since that first C64 and through the x86 years, I’d … Continue reading Hacker History III: Professional Hardware Hacker
The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale only measures wind speed and nothing else. Continue reading Hurricane Categories Don’t Capture How Dangerous Florence Is
The National Weather Service says it’s “solely a meteorological term” and doesn’t describe the impacts of the storm. Continue reading ‘Bomb Cyclone’ Is a Term Pulled From Deep in Meteorology Glossaries to Get Clicks
When we watch a TV weather report such as the ones that plaster our screens during hurricane season, it is easy to forget the scale of the achievement they represent in terms of data collection and interpretation. Huge amounts of data from a diverse array of sources feed weather models running on some of our most powerful computers, and though they don’t always forecast with complete accuracy we have become used to their getting it right often enough to be trustworthy.
It is also easy to forget that such advanced technology and the vast array of data behind it are …read more
Continue reading Retrotechtacular: An Oceanographic Data Station Buoy For The 1960s