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Time flies when you’re having fun. It’s only 2½ months until the Atlantic hurricane season starts up. Just to help remind us of that fact, ’tis the season for tropical weather researchers to be dragged from their groundhog dens to emerge from their computer laboratories and prognosticate about the coming season. Quoting Insurance Journal: Hurricane Forecaster [...]
As seen on the newswires: First the Old Man, now the Big Wind. New Hampshire’s Mount Washington has lost its distinction as the site of the fastest wind gust ever recorded on Earth, officials at the Mount Washington Observatory said Tuesday. The concession came three days after the World Meteorological Organization posted a snippet on its Web [...] 
I’m briefly resurfacing again from a busy week work & travel-wise to note that the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists are holding a presser today at 10am Eastern to advance the Doomsday Clock. From the press release announcing the shindig: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) will move the minute hand of its famous “Doomsday Clock” [...] 
If you’ve been paying attention, you knew that at some point, lawyers were going to get involved in the fuss over the antics climate researchers at East Anglia University are alleged to have engaged in. Over at Watts Up With That, a reader has shared a memo that circulated at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River [...] 
One of the blogs on my reading list is “Watts Up With That”, an effort which has been questioning the human-driven global warming by attempting to critique the modern data collection efforts and adjustments made to climate-analysis data. Unlike some of the “denier” nuts, the folks at WUWT accept that global warming is happening and [...]
Before I begin my monologue, I’d like to remind readers of my underlying position on the topic of global warming: I believe that climate change happens, and that humans may have a role.
Via Jeff Masters’ blog at Weather Underground, NASA mentioned that one of the more useful tools in tropical weather monitoring was lost early this week: Several hours ago, shortly past 7:00Z today (23Nov), telemetry received from QuikSCAT indicates that the antenna rotation rate has dropped to zero and remains at zero. The motor remains powered. The [...] 
Between travel and work I haven’t had much time to do much recreational reading or writing. But to clear out the inbox right quick, I give you: Chop Suey: Over in Europe, Business Insurance mentions that the increased capital requirements for insurers proposed under Solvency II standards could have the side effect of reducing capacity for [...]
This could be an interesting week for the Gulf Coast, weather-wise:
It’s rather unusual to see a tropical storm named while off the coast of Portugal. Due to its location, this is also a storm with multiple personalities. To meteorologists in North America, she’s Tropical Storm Grace. However, in Europe, where the Freie Universität Berlin Institut für Meteorologie takes the liberty of naming every low pressure center, [...] |
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