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Scientific illustration: A satellite photo of clouds swirling into spirals.

Science Art: Cloud Vortices off Isla Socorro (Detail) by NASA Goddard Photo and Video

18 January 2021 grant 0

Click to embiggen On May 25, 2010 at 17 :35 UTC, this was the weather off the North Pacific island called Isla Socorro: Partly cloudy […]

On behalf of America’s southeastern quadrant: Oh, GREAT! Early hurricane predictions are in. And big.

21 April 2020 grant 0

It’s going to be a rough season again, Science News lets us know. Tropical weather forecasters are predicting 18 named storms and at least four […]

The southern jet stream is finally going back to normal as the ozone hole closes.

26 March 2020 grant 0

New Scientist has some uplifting news about the ozone hole. It’s fixing itself at last, and as it does so, the planet’s wind patterns are […]

scientific illustration - a photo of the inside of a hurricane, taken by NOAA researchers

Science Art: Sunset in the Eye of a Hurricane

8 September 2019 grant 0

Click to embiggen Well, I made it through Dorian just fine this week. Some islands less than 100 miles to the east didn’t. This is […]

scientific illustration of the sky, a perspective view of effects from ice crystals for meteological observers

Science Art: Perspective view of the sky…, from “Refraction by Ice Crystals” in Instructions to Marine Meteorological Observers, 1938.

14 July 2019 grant 0

Click to embiggen These are the optical effects you have to be aware of if you’re going to describe the sky when ice-filled cirrus clouds […]

from https://archive.org/details/manualofmeteorol04shawuoft

Science Art: Geostrophic and Surface-Winds at Southport, 1931

19 August 2018 grant 0

Click to embiggen Eight years of observations, from 1908 to 1915, went into this chart. We’re looking at deviations from geographic points, and the percentage […]

Science Art: The midnight sun, from Atlas zu Alex. V. Humboldt’s Kosmos, 1851.

25 February 2018 grant 0

Click to embiggen Polar bears salute the midnight sun as Arctic explorers sail to the horizon. This image is part of a page of “Cosmic […]

How Dan Rather taught us how to see hurricanes.

14 September 2017 grant 0

This isn’t new research, but a look back at some technological history most of us might not know. The Atlantic reminds us how a young […]

Radiation clouds may sicken jet travelers.

6 February 2017 grant 0

New Scientist puts the seat backs in the full upright position with the news that there are weird “radioactive zones” in the sky our planes […]

Science Art: GFS Model Forecasts Moisture over the Atlantic, Aug 2016

9 October 2016 grant 0

Click to embiggen You’d think after the week I’ve had, I’d be sick of looking at meteorological imagery. But no. This stuff is beautiful, and […]

Science Art: Aneroiddose für die Luftdruckkompensation des Pendels, by Sigmund Riefler

2 October 2016 grant 0

Click to embiggen Sigmund Riefler was a physicist and precision clockmaker. He also created this, a precision barometer, or, rather, a barometer connected to a […]

Clouds are gathering. In a weird way. At the poles.

22 July 2016 grant 0

Nature looks high and low at the way clouds have changed since the 1980s – as global-warming models predicted: An analysis of satellite data has […]

Something worked! The ozone hole is getting better.

1 July 2016 grant 0

Nature reports that our ban on CFCs might be working because the hole in the ozone layer is shrinking: It’s the beginning of the end […]

Science Art: Diagram of Meteorology, James Reynolds and John Emslie.

8 May 2016 grant 0

Click to embiggen vastly Are we in for weather? Yes, always. Good or bad, there’s always some kind of weather. What kind? This diagram will […]

The meanest, most-quickly-intensifying hurricane in the Western Hemisphere.

24 October 2015 grant 0

Dr. Jeff Masters at Weather Underground has a lot of superlatives for Hurricane Patricia, the Category 5 storm that leapt up out of nowhere to […]

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