Peter Dodge’s final cyclone.
Ars Technica salutes NOAA hurricane scientist Peter Dodge, who underwent his 387th storm “penetration” aboard an airplane flying into Category 5 Hurricane Milton …… Read the rest “Peter Dodge’s final cyclone.”
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Hurricanes are way deadlier than you might expect.
Heatmap reports on a study looking at the “long tail” of excess deaths in the wake of major hurricanes, and found that major storms are hundreds of times deadlier than anyone… Read the rest “Hurricanes are way deadlier than you might expect.”
Science Art: HURRICANE FRAN – NARA – 17393787, by NASA.
Pictures of a storm from space. Big hurricanes are big!
Fran was a Category 3 major hurricane – so a big storm, but far from the biggest.
As NASA describes this poster (for that is what… Read the rest “Science Art: HURRICANE FRAN – NARA – 17393787, by NASA.”
AIs are in the hurricane-forecast business now.
Ars Technica, in not so many words, is saying that AIs could be coming for the meteorologists next. But for now, they’re helping the pros predict hurricanes accurately with greater… Read the rest “AIs are in the hurricane-forecast business now.”
Science Art: 100 years of international meteorological collaboration, by Karl Oskar Blase, 1973.
30 pfennigs could get you a lot of weather back in 1973 in West Germany.
It commemorates a century of teaming up to watch the weather.
The artist, Karl Oskar Blase, has a bit more in the way of … Read the rest “Science Art: 100 years of international meteorological collaboration, by Karl Oskar Blase, 1973.”
Robot sailboat shoots video inside a major hurricane.
NOAA accomplished a world first when category-4 Hurricane Sam raged across the middle Atlantic, by sending an automated vessel named Saildrone Explorer SD 1045 into the 50-foot waves … Read the rest “Robot sailboat shoots video inside a major hurricane.”
Science Art: The Cricket Thermometer, by Cleve Hallenbeck.
From the June 1949 issue of Natural History, the magazine of the American Museum of Natural History (which is archived here) comes a handy reference guide for telling the temperature based… Read the rest “Science Art: The Cricket Thermometer, by Cleve Hallenbeck.”
Lighting cleans the air even more than we thought.
Science News chases the storm chasers who found some surprising air-purifying oxidant chemicals in the wake of major lightning strikes:
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Science Art: Cloud Vortices off Isla Socorro (Detail) by NASA Goddard Photo and Video
Click to embiggenOn May 25, 2010 at 17 :35 UTC, this was the weather off the North Pacific island called Isla Socorro: Partly cloudy with scattered spirals.
The interesting thing about truly… Read the rest “Science Art: Cloud Vortices off Isla Socorro (Detail) by NASA Goddard Photo and Video”
On behalf of America’s southeastern quadrant: Oh, GREAT! Early hurricane predictions are in. And big.
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 major hurricanes for the 2020 season… Read the rest “On behalf of America’s southeastern quadrant: Oh, GREAT! Early hurricane predictions are in. And big.”
The southern jet stream is finally going back to normal as the ozone hole closes.
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 returning to normal:
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Science Art: Sunset in the Eye of a Hurricane
Well, I made it through Dorian just fine this week. Some islands less than 100 miles to the east didn’t.
This is not that Category 5 storm. This was apparently uploaded… Read the rest “Science Art: Sunset in the Eye of a Hurricane”
Science Art: Perspective view of the sky…, from “Refraction by Ice Crystals” in Instructions to Marine Meteorological Observers, 1938.
These are the optical effects you have to be aware of if you’re going to describe the sky when ice-filled cirrus clouds are overhead. Ice crystals refract sunlight… Read the rest “Science Art: Perspective view of the sky…, from “Refraction by Ice Crystals” in Instructions to Marine Meteorological Observers, 1938.”
Science Art: Geostrophic and Surface-Winds at Southport, 1931
Eight years of observations, from 1908 to 1915, went into this chart. We’re looking at deviations from geographic points, and the percentage of geostrophic wind… Read the rest “Science Art: Geostrophic and Surface-Winds at Southport, 1931”
Science Art: The midnight sun, from Atlas zu Alex. V. Humboldt’s Kosmos, 1851.
Polar bears salute the midnight sun as Arctic explorers sail to the horizon.
This image is part of a page of “Cosmic Meteorological Landscapes” that are all… Read the rest “Science Art: The midnight sun, from Atlas zu Alex. V. Humboldt’s Kosmos, 1851.”