Weather:
Here on the Front Range our fourth snowstorm in four weeks is on its way, with nighttime lows below zero to accompany. Meanwhile, in Fairbanks, it's a hell of a lot worse: dude, it's -45 f-ing below. my brakes hardly...
Posted on January 10, 2007 2:10 PM • 1 Comments
If you're like every other Boulder resident I've talked to lately, you agree: the City of Boulder apparently has decided to contract its snow removal and plowing to the group that wears this uniform. What the H? The City of...
Posted on January 9, 2007 5:41 PM • 1 Comments
Do we reserve the "extreme" label for weather that is damaging? Here's what happened the other day: the forecast for the day was mid-60's. (Sorry for those of you in the rest of the world, but I'm claiming superpower rights...
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Posted on November 28, 2006 4:46 PM • 8 Comments
Some incredible pictures are coming out of NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn. Cassini has photographed a monster storm at Saturn's south pole with a central eye structure and winds of 350 mph. Apparently this has never been detected on any...
Posted on November 10, 2006 2:14 PM • 4 Comments
If we all left this planet tomorrow, how long would it take nature to clean all traces of our presence? Two years? Ten? Ok, maybe a bit longer, but when you see photos like this you realize that in geologic...
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Posted on November 9, 2006 1:52 PM • 9 Comments
Only three abstracts to bring out from last week's AGU email alerts, but one is a gem. 1- Infrasound events detected with the Southern California Seismic Network by E.S. Cochran and P.M. Shearer of Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Just a...
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Posted on October 13, 2006 4:02 PM • 4 Comments
The lessons for this region that West illustrates are as valid now as they were in the second half of the 19th Century. Ever since I moved to the Front Range I've had a subtle, mostly latent, uneasy feeling about life here. After reading West's book I know why.
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Posted on August 23, 2006 12:25 PM • 0 Comments
Great article out of the Colorado Spring Gazette back in mid-June. I had to check over and over to make sure it wasn't published on 4/1. Upshot is, a roughage farmer has installed a bunch of sonic cannons that supposedly...
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Posted on August 3, 2006 3:16 PM • 1 Comments
Another gem I missed while away, and I'll leave it without commentary. The short of it is that NOAA pilots flew a Gulfstream (corporate-style) jet into the meat of a hurricane, where previously they had only been nibbling at the...
Posted on August 3, 2006 1:50 PM • 0 Comments
Very cool looped radar of TC Chris seeming to organize into a strong cyclonic storm and then completely breaking apart over Puerto Rico as it ran into a westerly band of thunderstorms. Courtesy Brian McNoldy of ColoState. (click img for...
Posted on August 3, 2006 12:59 PM • 1 Comments
This crazy pic comes via EUMETSAT and I found out about it via J. Heming of the UK Met Office. It's a severe thunderstorm that developed a circulation and briefly developed an eye-like structure (generally only hurricane-size storms have true...
Posted on June 29, 2006 11:23 PM • 9 Comments
We often define natural hazard as natural disaster and vice versa even though they are of clearly different character. Natural hazard defines the potential for a destructive confluence between society and nature, whereas natural disaster describes the outcome. There is...
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Posted on June 22, 2006 12:28 PM • 5 Comments
track Alberto back from the African coast here. If it's hard to pick out, wait for the entire animation to load, wait until it gets near the end frame (Alberto will be obvious by then), then click the...
Posted on June 15, 2006 5:40 PM • 0 Comments
Very cool animated loops here....
Posted on June 13, 2006 1:41 PM • 1 Comments
Kevin Vranes has a phud in Physical Ocean- ography and Cli- matology. He now studies sci- ence policy and politics at the CSTPR. (More in the about.)
