Oct 31 2012
Yes Virginia, this is exactly the kind of weird weather pattern that could be both a product of climate change, and a mere appetizer for what will come later this century. The flooding and winds were mostly moderate by disaster standards, but they were moderate over a huge region. Storm damage is a product not …
Oct 29 2012
The outer bands of Hurricane Sandy (Latest NWS Hurricane Center info) are looming over the eastern seaboard. The storm is so large that it could hit in DC, flood parts of New York, and still knock thousands of trees in North Carolina. Conboys of emergency vehicles are lined up, FEMA is set to swoop in and help. …
Oct 28 2012
If you live in the colored region of the storm track it’s time to decide if you are going to stay where you are or go somewhere else. A big part of what makes this storm dangerous is that it is huge, the actual wind speeds are likely to be tropical force or lower for …
Oct 26 2012
Hurricane Sandy isn’t the latest or strongest Atlantic hurricane, the record-breaking 2005 season included a named storm as late as January 2006! But she may well deliver a wallop to the eastern seaboard residents of New England will not soon forget:
Aug 27 2012
I may be on Daily Kos Radio in a few hours. This video and post may end up helping out. Here’s the latest info on Isaac from the NWS and WeatherUnderground.
Aug 26 2012
There’s just something eerily fitting about the GOP convention being delayed by a heat engine in the form of a tropical cyclone. And while we’re at it, how loud would the claims that God-eh hates XYZ, where XYZ equals anything to the left of Genghis Kahn, be right about now if the tables were turned?
Aug 24 2012
It’s that time of year, when weather violates the fundy SloT argument against evolution and creates order from chaos. Or, if you truly believe hurricanes are God’s way of saying … something, whatevs, then if Isaac disrupts the Republican convention in Tampa, maybe God is not happy with Republicans. How would we test that?
Aug 22 2012
Back in 2007 a combination of weather and heat reduced the Arctic ice cap to its lowest measured level ever. This year is poised to beat it and the end of this month may set its own record of sorts:
Nov 09 2011
The National Weather Service is issuing a severe winter storm watch for parts of Alaska and Canada as a powerful storm sweeps in from the west carrying lots of snow and ice driven by near hurricane force winds. The system is currently off Alaska’s west coast and looks almost like the crazy cyclonic winter-canes on …
Oct 28 2011
Forget about celebrity phone hacking, Bloomberg and TPM are both reporting on a far more disturbing possibility: the world’s first sat hack. What NASA calls “suspicious” events reportedly appear in a draft prepared for the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission:
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